Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991 · Movie · R · 96 min · ★ 7.9 · 98% critics
This documentary recounts how the filming of Apocalypse Now was repeatedly thrown off course by bad weather, health issues, and war spilling near the locations, driving costs higher and straining the people involved. It uses audio recordings from the director’s family filming diary, plus informal on-set footage and interviews with cast and crew.
Also known as Hearts of Darkness: The Art of Eleanor Coppola
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Details
- Years
- 1991
- Release date
- 1991-11-27
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Critic score
- 98/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.9/10 (415 votes)
About
If you enjoy behind-the-scenes stories like Lost in La Mancha or Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, you’ll likely love this, but not for you if you want a light, no-trouble watch or you dislike production-drama documentaries.
Pros: gripping behind-the-scenes chaos; honest creative struggle; great source footage | Cons: can feel overly harrowing; trivia can repeat; not for casual viewers
Themes
- movie business
- philippines
- behind the scenes
- madness
- ego
- making of
- life imitates art
- woman director
- typhoon
Cast & crew
Francis Ford Coppola
as Self
Eleanor Coppola
as Self
John Milius
as Self
George Lucas
as Self
Sam Bottoms
as Self
Albert Hall
as Self
Frederic Forrest
as Self
Laurence Fishburne
as Self
- DT
Dean Tavoularis
as Self
Fred Roos
as Self
Directed by Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper