Doc Talk Podcast Goes Upriver For Riveting Conversation About Newly Restored ‘Hearts Of Darkness,’ One Of Greatest Documentaries Ever

Hearts of Darkness: A Film-Maker’s Apocalypse review – Francis Ford Coppola and the mother of all meltdowns

Coppola said his masterpiece Apocalypse Now ‘is not about Vietnam; it is Vietnam’ – this superb film shows how little he was exaggeratingThe greatest ever making-of documentary is now on re-release: the terrifying story of how Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam war masterpiece Apocalypse Now got made – even scarier than Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams, about the making of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo. The time has come to acknowledge Eleanor Coppola’s …

Doc Talk Podcast Goes Upriver For Riveting Conversation About Newly Restored ‘Hearts Of Darkness,’ One Of Greatest Documentaries Ever

UPDATED to note that the restored Hearts of Darkness opens in in the UK and Ireland on July 4, as well as in New York. Previously: A “making of” documentary sounds like a rather mundane endeavor, a by-the-numbers exercise. But not when it comes to exploring how Francis Ford Coppola made his masterpiece Apocalypse Now, a notoriously punishing shoot in the Philippines that seemingly tested the sanity of nearly everyone involved and almost cost sta…