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David talks to Helen Thompson about Francis Ford Coppola’s manic masterpiece of the Vietnam War Apocalypse Now (1979), a film that almost destroyed its director and some of its cast. What is its relationship to Conrad’s Heart of Darkness? What is it trying to say about American culture and American power? And is its subject in the end the madness of movie-making itself?
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