Apocalypse Now Book by Peter Cowie

Apocalypse Now Book by Peter Cowie

For Francis Ford Coppola, Oscar-winning auteur at the height of his powers, Apocalypse Now was a multi-million-dollar 'personal project' for which he took an original screenplay by John Milius about the Vietnam War and forged it with themes from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to create an unforgettable epic on the insanity of modern war.More than three years in the making, Apocalypse Now finally screened (as a 'work-in-progress') at Cannes in 1979, where it won the Palme d'Or. It proceeded to garner further acclaim and Academy Awards, becoming one of the cinema's most enduring cult movies.The compelling book reconstructs the whole extraordinary saga of how Coppola and his team battled with hurricanes, crises both psychological and financial and the calamity of a heart attack suffered by lead actor Martin Sheen while on location in the Philippines.

Peter Cowie began writing about the cinema at Cambridge University in 1960. He has since published more than twenty books, including critical biographies of Bergman, Welles and Coppola. In 1963 he founded the annual International Film Guide, which he edited for forty years. Cowie has also provided commentaries for several DVDs of classic films in the Criterion Collection. He has served on the jury at numerous festivals and is a member of the board of the European Film College. Cowie was International Publishing Director of Variety from 1993 to 2000, and now lives in Switzerland.

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ISBN 13	9780571203697
ISBN 10	0571203698
Title	Apocalypse Now Book
Author	Peter Cowie
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2000-11-06
Number of pages	224
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