Greatest Films of All Time 2022: 19=

Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

A journey into the heart of conflict in Francis Ford Coppola’s brutal masterpiece.

  • Director

    Francis Ford Coppola

  • With

    Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Frederic Forrest, Robert Duvall

  • USA 1979. 183min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    15

Welcome to Vietnam – a Hieronymus Bosch-like world where ideal surfing conditions can be found at the centre of a war zone, TV crews capture death as entertainment, Playboy bunnies leap in and out of helicopters and where Marlon Brando’s deranged Colonel Kurtz quote T.S. Eliot. Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory world lures us into its insanity with groundbreaking sound design and an audacious scale of ambition. War has never been so spectacular in cinema, nor perhaps so grotesque.

Ruby McGuigan

Also screening at BFI Southbank.

Part of our Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time season.