Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse

In 1976, Francis Ford Coppola and his cast, crew and family ventured into the Filipino jungle to make a masterpiece. But the production of Apocalypse Now proved to be almost as much of a nightmare as the Captain Willard’s own journey into the heart of darkness. By the time of the film’s premiere at Cannes in 1979, the shoot had already become a thing of legend. In 1991, Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper revisited the footage Eleanor Coppola had shot on set, and conducted new interviews with the cast and crew. The result is a groundbreaking portrait of the creation of an enduring classic.