Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
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Director: Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper Run Time: 96 min. Format: 4K Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1991
Starring: Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, John Milius, Sam Bottoms
Producers: George Zaloom, Les Mayfield
The New 4K Restoration co-presented by Women in Film and Lionsgate!
One of the greatest documentaries about the passion, dedication, and insanity that goes into filmmaking, Eleanor Coppola’s Hearts of Darkness gives an intimate glimpse behind one camera and in front of another! In the late 1970s, as renegade filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola struggles to complete an epic allegory of the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Now, his wife, Eleanor, films his daily travails with a camera of her own. The documentary based on her footage details the difficulties of the large production — from weather-related delays in the Philippines to star Martin Sheen’s heart attack while filming — and it provides unprecedented behind-the-scenes clips of one of Hollywood’s most-acclaimed films.
About the Restoration:
“In 1976, Eleanor Coppola shot behind-the-scenes footage of Apocalypse Now on 16mm. For the first time, we decided to return to all original sources and scan elements in 4K for this new release. What everyone has seen over the last 30 years has been three to four generations removed from the source elements. Additionally, we utilized the 2019 4K restoration of Apocalypse Now for this release, incorporating those elements into the documentary. For any clips pulled from Apocalypse Now and used in the documentary, we maintained the original aspect ratio of 2.40 instead of letterboxing it in a 4×3 frame. Lastly, we remastered the soundtrack and created a new 5.1 mix. The film was restored at American Zoetrope and graded at Roundabout Entertainment in Burbank, California. The director, Fax Bahr, approved the grade.”
– James T. Mockoski, Film Archivist/Restoration Supervisor for American Zoetrope
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