Apocalypse Now Redux

(Francis Ford Coppola, US 1979/2001, 202 min., 35mm)

Vittorio Storaro. In this retelling of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Martin Sheen plays Captain Willard, a military officer sent on a secret mission to assassinate rogue Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) in the darkest days of the Vietnam War. Dennis Hopper, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, and Robert Duvall costar in one of cinema’s definitive statements on the madness of war, elevated to its status as a classic also thanks to Storaro’s frighteningly beautiful cinematography.