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Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, this classic and compelling Vietnam War epic stars Martin Sheen as Captain Willard, who is sent on a dangerous and mesmerizing odyssey into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade American Colonel named Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has succumbed to the horrors of war and barricaded himself in a remote outpost. Also stars Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper and Harrison Ford.

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I love the smell of a collector's edition in the morning. Everyone's favorite Joseph Conrad adaptation gets the fancy packaging and extras treatment with this release of Apocalypse Now - The Complete Dossier. Both the original theatrical cut and the 2001 Redux version are included, with enough extras to keep one occupied on a long boat trip. Calling this the "complete" dossier is sure to raise hackles among fans who insist that Eleanor Coppola's lauded documentary, Hearts of Darkness, which chronicled husband Francis's harrowing experience making the film, should have been included. (As of this review, Hearts of Darkness has yet to be released on DVD, so battered VHS copies will have to suffice.) Packaged in a cardboard "dossier" sleeve, the two-disc set includes Marlon Brando reading T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men," new production featurettes, and cast member interviews. Owners of previous editions of either of the cuts might consider how much they want all the officially sanctioned information on this edition. For newcomers to the Vietnam epic, this is an edition worth going crazy for. --Ryan Boudinot

Apocalypse Now
In the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim and Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of Apocalypse Now as if it were his own epic mission into the heart of darkness. On location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, he quite literally went mad as the project threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative despair, but from this insanity came one of the greatest films ever made. It began as a John Milius screenplay, transposing Joseph Conrad's classic story "Heart of Darkness" into the horrors of the Vietnam War, following a battle-weary Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) on a secret upriver mission to find and execute the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has reverted to a state of murderous and mystical insanity. The journey is fraught with danger involving wartime action on epic and intimate scales. One measure of the film's awesome visceral impact is the number of sequences, images, and lines of dialogue that have literally burned themselves into our cinematic consciousness, from the Wagnerian strike of helicopter gunships on a Vietnamese village to the brutal murder of stowaways on a peasant sampan and the unflinching fearlessness of the surfing warrior Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), who speaks lovingly of "the smell of napalm in the morning." Like Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God, this film is the product of genius cast into a pit of hell and emerging, phoenix-like, in triumph. Coppola's obsession (effectively detailed in the riveting documentary Hearts of Darkness, directed by Coppola's wife, Eleanor) informs every scene and every frame, and the result is a film for the ages. --Jeff Shannon

Apocalypse Now Redux
Digitally remastered with 49 minutes of previously unseen footage, Apocalypse Now Redux is the reference standard of Francis Coppola's 1979 epic. A metaphorical hallucination of the Vietnam War, the film was reconstructed by Coppola and editor Walter Murch to enrich themes and clarify the ending. On that basis Redux is a qualified success, more coherent than the original while inviting the same accusations of directorial excess. The restored "French plantation" sequence adds ghostly resonance to the war's absurdity, and Willard's theft of Colonel Kurtz's beloved surfboard adds welcomed humor to the film's nightmarish upriver journey. An encounter with Playboy Playmates seems superfluous compared to the enhanced interplay between Willard and his ill-fated boat crew, but compensation arrives in the hellish Kurtz compound, where Willard's mission--and the performances of Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando--reach even greater heights of insanity, thus validating Redux as the rightful heir to Coppola's triumphantly rampant ambition. --Jeff Shannon

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Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 2:1
Number of discs: 2
Rated:
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Studio: Paramount
DVD Release Date: August 15, 2006
Run Time: 153 minutes
Average Customer Review: 2,765 customer reviews
ASIN: B000FSME1A
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I am a Vietnam Vet. 1st Marine Division 65-66 ...

ByGerald Masonon January 8, 2017

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I am a Vietnam Vet. 1st Marine Division 65-66. I had to watch this film because I was watching another war film and it seemed so out of touch. I still see a VA shrink even today. Nam left a big impression on me. This film let me feel the intensity of the dark side of it which actually was very comforting in a sense. I have been told by different therapists to bring it all to the surface so I could deal with it but it is buried so deep that no one should have to hear about the dead and dying, besides they would not understand. I am actually wring this for me and if you care to disbelieve, then so be it.

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Perfect

Byahigherauthorityon September 11, 2017

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A film where everyone-actors, director, support staff of every denomination produced a masterpiece. This is Citizen Kane or Annie Hall in Viet Nam. Perfect in both iterations and the documentary. Buy it, be entertained and amazed, and learn a few things.

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Why would you not own this?!

ByCrossfit Dadohon April 22, 2015

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A must have for fans of the film and for film lovers in general. This has all of the versions so you can watch the "short" version or the Redux with the restored plantation scene and some other ones as well. The extras are an amazing insight into how the film was made and the included documentary Hearts of Darkness shows the toll the process took of the director.

An amazing presentation of a classic film with a boatload of extras giving insight on how it came to be. So valuable for any lover of film.

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CLASSIC!

Byrascalon December 25, 2013

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This is a great presentation of one of the greatest films to ever come out of Hollywood. The set includes both versions of the film and an additional disk with special features all in a special package simulating a file dossier. Classy package! No need to review the film since everyone not born on Mars has seen it. And I bought it on Amazon "Used-Like New" in pristine condition for $4.19.

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The DVD and blu-ray have the 1979 and 2001 versions of Apocalypse Now

ByZarathustraon February 25, 2013

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Apocalypse Now is based on a novel by Polish writer Joseph Conrad, who wrote a number of novels in English in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The film is based on Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, which was about a river trip in West Africa to find a man named Kurtz. Both versions of Francis Ford Coppola's film, filmed in the Philippines, are based on a river trip in Vietnam to find an American soldier also named Kurtz.
The DVD and blu-ray both have a number of special features which explain the difficulties that occurred in the making of the film. The film went over budget and Coppola had to personally finance the continuing operation. Both versions were awarded top honors at Cannes and went on to make a profit.
On the blu-ray both versions are on disc one. Special features are on disc two and disc three contains a Feature-Length Documentary named Hearts of Darkness: A filmmaker's Apocalypse with commentary by Coppola's wife Eleanor.
Despite all the difficulties in producing the films, both rank, along with The Godfather Saga, among the greatest films of recent years.
For reviewers who would like to compare the film with Conrad's novel, the book Heart of Darkness is available here from Amazon vendors.

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Short comparison of redux vs original *spoilers*

ByHVon July 18, 2015

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After having seen both the original and redux cuts numerous times I believe that the original version is the better one. The original feels more cohesive and tightly focused as others have mentioned while the redux version feels like it had scenes that were best left on the cutting floor like the bunnies scene and the whole surf board scene for example. Scenes like the booby trapped sampan with the monkeys, Captain Colby shotgunning the reporter to death or seeing soldiers dancing around while a pig was being sacrificed would have made it even more strange imo which was what Francis Ford Coppola said that he was going for when making redux.

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rarely ever make the movies better. This is not the case in this instance

ByElizabeth Espinozaon September 5, 2016

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I thought that the additional of nearly an hour to the movie made it more interesting. Director's cuts, in my opinion, rarely ever make the movies better. This is not the case in this instance.