Arguably the most famous documentary about filmmaking is Eleanor Coppola's Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, which detailed her husband Francis Ford Coppola's experiences during the infamously gruelling production of Apocalypse Now. The doc was completed in 1991 by directors Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper, who filmed new interviews with the cast and crew of the acclaimed war movie.
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse has now been newly restored in 4K and will play in UK/ROI cinemas from July 4th. The film will then be released in a three-disc 4K UHD collector's edition on July 28th, accompanied by a 64-page booklet and two posters.
Check out the new trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
In the late 1970s, celebrated director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, The Conversation) and his cast, crew and family ventured into the dense jungles of the Philippines to begin work on what would eventually become his masterpiece, APOCALYPSE NOW. But the journey from page to screen soon spiralled into a hellish, life-threatening nightmare that echoed the film’s narrative. Plagued with adversity, one of the most influential films ever made had one of the most notorious shoots in cinema history that few survived unscathed.Meticulously documented at the time by Eleanor Coppola (Paris Can Wait), Fax Bahr (In Living Colour) and George Hickenlooper (Dogtown) revisited the footage in 1991 and filmed new interviews with cast and crew, resulting in HEARTS OF DARKNESS, a ground-breaking and intimate portrait of what went into making one of the best films ever made. HEARTS OF DARKNESS is the ultimate feature-length documentary, capturing the explosive events that lead to APOCALYPSE NOW becoming a worldwide classic film and a constant favourite with film critics.
