Saturday, March 01, 2008
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Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was
Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
I am not much for 'the making of.." films or shorts.
But this one was well worth my time.
Apocolypse Now is a great film and here we have the process by which it was made. And almost not.
Francis Ford Coppola skirts the edges of failure throughout. Even the fates seem to intercede against him. Typhoons, heart attacks, actors who won't learn their lines while hundreds stand by.
His wife Eleanor shot much of the footage and others wrote and produced this documentary.
Vivid scenes from the film are included.
I got the same sort of headache that I got from the film itself. In a good way.
The only thing close to it is the Terry Gilliam documentary about his failed Don Quixote.
I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.
Labels: best films
