Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola

1979 / 183min / DCP

Twenty-two years after emerging from the bush with his psychotropic, hallucinatory vision of the Vietnam War by way of Joseph Conrad and the lens of visionary cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, Coppola went upriver one more time on the hunt for his elusive masterwork. The result, featuring a full 49 minutes of previously unseen footage—including a languid visit to a French plantation stuck outside of time—wasn’t a “recut” so much as a new movie, richer, stranger, and more psychedelic than ever before. A film that exists in the ghastly hangover of two imperialist sprees, informing Sendijarević’s colonialist gallows comedy Sweet Dreams.

“In Apocalypse Now, Coppola underlines the hypocrisy of Western Imperialism. It looks more closely at strangers in a strange land, who act as if they own it. The film captures the madness of it all.”—Ena Sendijarević

Introduction by Ena Sendijarević on Friday, April 12th