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10 of the best ... From Platoon to Winter Soldier: 10 of the best Vietnam war films

As Spike Lee releases new war drama Da 5 Bloods, we look back at the ways cinema has represented the 20-year conflict

Published: 5 Jun 2020

Notebook We live in stressful times, a perfect moment to try to turn off and tune out

Nosheen Iqbal

Don’t feel guilty about not doing the improving things you think you should do - focus instead on your mental health

Published: 26 Apr 2020

Published: 26 Apr 2020

So extra: how the director's cut became Hollywood's best ruse to milk fans dry

They used to come out years after the original – and be quite different. Now films such as Avengers: Endgame are released in ‘new’ versions weeks after the original – and fans are lapping them up

Published: 29 Aug 2019
Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film'

Published: 9 Aug 2019
5 out of 5 stars.

Apocalypse Now: Final Cut review – crazed exposé of the heart of darkness
5 out of 5 stars.

Published: 7 Aug 2019

The horror! Apocalypse Now unseen – in pictures

Francis Ford Coppola’s wildly ambitious take on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness premiered at the Cannes film festival 40 years ago – and won the Palme d’Or. Next month, recently discovered on-set photographs by Chas Gerretsen will be shown for the first time at KINO Rotterdam

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Published: 30 May 2019

Is Apocalypse Now: Final Cut the best version we'll ever see?

At this year’s Tribeca film festival, Francis Ford Coppola used the 40th anniversary of his Vietnam masterpiece to unveil a new version

Published: 29 Apr 2019

3 out of 5 stars.

The Ridiculous Darkness review – Conrad, Coppola and the 'white saviour' complex
3 out of 5 stars.

A story from a Somali pirate kicks off this outlandish comic critique of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

Published: 8 Mar 2019

Film blog New edits and director's cuts: are they lost gems or simply second best?

A three-hour extended cut of Superman: The Movie is being released for the first time, but can alternate versions of classics ever be more than poor relations?

Published: 26 Sep 2017

The Q&A Martin Sheen: ‘Which living person do I most despise? Yellow Hair'

The actor on Donald Trump, Apocalypse Now and saying sorry to his son

Published: 18 Mar 2017

The best battle scenes ever shot from Apocalypse Now to Hacksaw Ridge

The people behind the cameras, stunts and special effects on six classic war movies explain their creation

Published: 26 Jan 2017

Salim Mehajer says his wedding video is in same league as The Godfather

Flamboyant former deputy mayor of Auburn is being investigated over allegations council planning decisions benefited him and his family members

Published: 17 Jun 2016

Francis Ford Coppola on Live Cinema: 'I don’t know what I’m doing yet'

Godfather trilogy director discusses his latest project, which will see him combine TV and film, during the Tribeca film festival

Published: 21 Apr 2016

Film blog My favourite Cannes winner: Apocalypse Now

Alex Hess views Francis Ford Coppola’s triumph at the 1979 festival as vindication of the film-maker’s own journey into the heart of darkness

Published: 30 Apr 2015
Film blog My favourite Cannes winner: The Conversation

Catherine Shoard

Continuing our series in which writers choose their favourite Palme d’Or winners. Today: Francis Ford Coppola’s taut, scratchy paranoia classic starring Gene Hackman

Published: 22 Apr 2015

Published: 22 Apr 2015

Books blog Is Jeremy Paxman right about new poetry's inaccessibility?

Do you agree with the Newsnight presenter that poetry has removed itself from popular culture? Can you think of examples that might make him think again?

Published: 2 Jun 2014

The 100 best novels The 100 best novels: No 32 – Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)

Joseph Conrad's masterpiece about a life-changing river journey to contact Mr Kurtz has the simplicity of great myth, writes Robert McCrum

Published: 28 Apr 2014

Apocalypse Now – review

A newly released, definitive version of Coppola's 1979 masterpiece reaffirms it as one of the great works of our times, writes Philip French

Published: 28 May 2011

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