Apocalypse Now Redux

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Francis Coppola introduces a new version - wholly re-edited from the original - of the movie masterpiece that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1979 and has since asserted itself as one of the great American movies.Milius's and Coppola's scenario relocates Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War, focusing on the hazardous mission of Captain Willard to find and terminate 'with extreme prejudice' a renegade American colonel in Cambodia.

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Five-time Academy Award winner Francis Ford Coppola won his first Oscar for the screenplay of Patton, which he co-wrote with Edmund G. North. He won his first Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for The Conversation, which he wrote and directed. He has directed twenty films, including Apocalypse Now and the epic Godfather trilogy. John Milius is a director, screenwriter and producer, whose credits include Dillinger, Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn.