Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

"My film is not a movie. My film is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in... Full review

Never in my whole life have I ever watched a documentary that was so detailed down to every last thing and has been so influential and haunting at the same time. What Eleanor Coppola did was make a documentary that... Full review

My overall rating is an A and I would make it an A+ if I didn't want it to go to Eleanor Coppola's head. Her film of her husband's trials and tribulations in the making of his film "Apocalypse Now" was... Full review

Best documentary about the making of a film ever.This is fascinating stuff.scary,funny,and always compelling,watching this you wonder how the film ever got finished.All the main actors contribute interviews for the film,(except Brando of course)and all are quite revealing.theres also contributions... Full review

'Are my methods unsound?' - 'I don't see a method at all, sir.'Hearts of darkness: a filmmaker's apocalypse has become the mother of all making-of documentaries. At least that's what Coppola had in mind. I guess every making-of ever made... Full review

How lucky can a master filmmaker get when the tide is against you smacking you & your new movie deliberately in the face? Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola certainly knows. This documentary, probably one of the most fascinating & insightful... Full review

Francis Ford Coppolla made a undeniable masterpiece with Apocalypse Now and became (for me at least) one of the greatest films ever made and the best war picture ever. To have this documentary sitting about is like having a documentary... Full review

I agree with the most positive reviews of this film. It's probably THE best documentary about the making of a movie, about the emotions and tensions behind the scenes, about the psychic terror of a director/creator trying desperately to not... Full review

"Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" is a stunning, behind-the-scenes look at the filming of "Apocalypse Now", the American masterpiece about one man's mission during the Vietnam War."Apocalypse Now" is a challenging movie on so many levels, but what surprises... Full review

A tremendous look at the struggles that everyone went through (including Eleanor Coppola) to finally create Apocalypse Now. Perhaps the overwhelming impression that this film made on me was that I would never, ever want to have to work with... Full review

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse" does a magnificent job of bringing the stories about the production of this historic film to the public eye. The footage for the film was captured during Eleanor during the long and strenuous shooting schedule of "Apocalypse Now" and showed many of the hardships and problems that faced Francis Ford and the actors and filmmakers. ... Full Review

he shows in making the film is endearing.....The discussion that Francis has with himself about consciousness is more annoying than illuminating but the almost boyish happiness....the documentary is a masterpiece of its own.....this documentary is a joy because of what one discovers.....Thirty Years Later , while a perfectly respectable "making of " documentary, is nowhere near the subject or the caliber of Hearts of Darkness ..... ... Full Review

Nobody is treated too badly, and you hear cast and crew voice admiration or concern for their hosts, but the voices are all American. There are moments where he doesnt come off that well, but Francis is too much of an artist to deface a masterpiece. ... Full Review

Days of true guerrilla filmmaking at its best. The documentary tells the harrowing story of the making of Apocalypse Now, as well as the physical and mental decline of its director, Francis Ford Coppola. ... Full Review

Featuring interviews (vintage and contemporary) with nearly all of the principal cast and crew, held together by Eleanor Coppola's diffident narration and a loose narrative detailing the production of Coppola's film and an abandoned attempt by Orson Welles to adapt Conrad's novella, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse is at its best when providing unvarnished glimpses of the elephantine production. ... Full Review

The movie "Apocalypse Now" is an amazing movie to watch. It can take some getting used to. It is a strange film, to say the least, but it was one of the first ones to make some kind of effort... ... Full Article

Because of the money and stakes involved, studio movies tend to be so completely worked out in advance that shooting them is about executing a creative vision rather than discovering one. ... Full Article

Starring: Francis Ford Coppola, Eleanor Coppola, George Lucas, John Milius, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne Directed by Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola Produced by Les Mayfield, George Zaloom Written by Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper Article by Rafe Telsch... ... Full Article

Uhm, guys, I only found out about this the same way Jeff did. Last night while surfing the net. I haven't talked to Fax, but I am really surprised by this development. ... Full Article

Question: I know actors improvise their lines all the time in comedies, but recently I learned that Anthony Hopkins improvised many of Hannibal 's lines. ... Full Article

When Francis Ford Coppola started filming his Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now in the Philippines in 1976, his wife, Eleanor, began to chronicle the making of her husband's project -- in a journal that became the 1979 book Notes, and... ... Full Article