As I stood waiting one night 22 years ago to see Apocalypse Now the first time, watching the previous shellshocked audience file out of the theater, a friend broke away from that crowd with a beatific ...

Apocalypse Now Redux is the definitive version of Francis Ford Coppola's stunning Vietnam War epic about a troubled Army Captain sent on an odyssey to assassinate renegade American colonel Kurtz.

There’s certainly a lot more footage–53 minutes, to be precise–which makes this better in certain ways than the original Apocalypse Now, though the flaws are also magnified. (Kurtz’s Cambodian savages ...

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