Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991

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Janet Maslin, New York Times: There have been few sharper portraits of the film maker as alchemist than Hearts of Darkness: A Film Maker's Apocalypse. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A fascinating 1991 postmortem on the making of Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The making of a film has never been documented with more penetration and truth than in Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: At once anecdotal and revealing, this excellent film both illuminates the catastrophes that beset one particular project, and shows, by way of comparison, exactly what American film has foregone since the '70s. Read more

Joe Brown, Washington Post: Harrowing and funny, a fine film on its own, Hearts leaves us with a new appreciation for the Vietnam War epic it documents. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: As the portrait of an artist in crisis, Hearts of Darkness is unparalleled. Read more