From film-making apocalypse to redux to complete dossier...

Rating: Null/10 (2 September 2007)

Every few years, now, we're presented with another APOCALYPSE NOW update. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Being a big fan of the film from its opening day, I gobble up every new tidbit of information that comes my way (my copy of NOTES is near The End of its usefulness as a source of info: it's about to fall apart). A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE was chock full of newsworthy bits, as was the REDUX (which, with the exception of the ghostly French Plantation sequence, only proved that Coppola had been right all along to excise the scenes he'd excised). More interesting still is the COMPLETE DOSSIER. From day one, I'd wondered about two characters in particular who seemed to have vanished into thin air in the movie: the "Colby" character played by Scott Glenn and the gonzo photographer played by Dennis Hopper. Here, at long last, we have our answer. It's about time.