Apocalypse Now - The Complete Dossier (R1) in August - Extras in detail
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Paramount Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Apocalypse Now - The Complete Dossier for 15th August 2006 priced at $19.99 SRP. Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, this classic and compelling Vietnam War epic stars Martin Sheen as Captain Willard, who is sent on a dangerous and mesmerizing odyssey into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade American Colonel named Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has succumbed to the horrors of war and barricaded himself in a remote outpost. Also stars Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper and Harrison Ford.
This two-disc Special Collector’s Edition includes both the 1979 and 2001 editions of the film plus over 2 hours of bonus materials. A full set of specs follow, but for detailed descriptions of the extras please use these links to pop-up scans from the digipak inlay: Disc 1 & Disc 2.
Technical Specs
Disc One: Apocalypse Now (1979)
Disc Two: Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
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This two-disc Special Collector’s Edition includes both the 1979 and 2001 editions of the film plus over 2 hours of bonus materials. A full set of specs follow, but for detailed descriptions of the extras please use these links to pop-up scans from the digipak inlay: Disc 1 & Disc 2.
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Technical Specs
- Anamorphic Widescreen Presentations
- English DD5.1 Surround
- English & Spanish subtitles
Disc One: Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Watch the films with Francis Coppola - Introduction to both the 1979 and 2001 editions by director Francis Coppola
- Audio Commentary with Francis Coppola
- Marlon Brando's complete reading of T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" (17mins)
- Lost "Monkey Sampan" Scene (3mins)
- Additional Scenes – 12 never-before-seen sequences (26mins)
- A/V Club Featurettes – Extras for young filmmakers, techies and fans offering a detailed look at the film’s achievements in sound and image:
- The Birth of 5.1 Sound (5mins)
- Ghost Helicopter Flyover (4mins)
- The Synthesiser Soundtrack (Article)
- Technical FAQ
Disc Two: Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
- Audio Commentary with Francis Coppola
- Redux Marker – An icon appears on-screen during footage added to make the 2001 Redux version of the film
- The Post Production of Apocalypse Now – 4 Featurettes covering the editing, music and sound of the film through Coppola and his team.
- A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now (18mins)
- The Music of Apocalypse Now (15mins)
- Heard Any Good Movies Lately? The Sound Design of Apocalypse Now (15mins)
- The Final Mix (3mins)
- Apocalypse Then and Now retrospective (4mins)
- "PBR Streetgang" Cast Members' Reunion (4mins)
- The Color Pallet of Apocalypse Now – Cinematography Featurette (4mins)
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# Rare, unseen footage
# Lost scenes
# Segments from the Cutting Room Floor
Hello they're all the same thing. With 2 hours of extras this will have to be a 3 disc release.
Just because it's missing the documentary you're not going to bother Sethos. No offence but that seems really stupid.
Why such a silly tagline? Redux was stupid but this is even worse.
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Any word if we'll finally see it uncropped?
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Also Brad, "rare, unseen footage" might refer to behind-the-scenes location material.
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Originally Posted by corkbouy:
Aspect ratio, anyone? Anyone?
Good question. I really hope it'll be 2.35:1 this time.
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Originally Posted by Takeshi357:
Good question. I really hope it'll be 2.35:1 this time.
Maybe, that's what "rare, unseen footage" means. ;)
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Originally Posted by Narshty:
No word on the price?
Said to be $29.99.
EDIT - if it is $19.99, that's even more of a steal...
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"Watch Apocalypse Now with Francis Ford Coppola"
2 Discs looks worrying unless they use seamless branching? I can only see both cuts + 2 Hours of extras fitting if they use seamless branching. Which commentary is Coppola going to talk on?
I hate when studios don't answer all the obvious questions fans want to know. Why not post what the aspect ratio will be?
Pity the Kurtz Compound alternate ending with director commentary hasn't made it's way to this release.
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Pity the Kurtz Compound alternate ending with director commentary hasn't made it's way to this release.
Reason to keep Redux :D
Shame about Hearts of Darkness - but a must have still !
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Would have been much easier and better to include that documentary on this release and do away with the usual fillers we get (post production, music of...., audience with... sound of...etc etc etc)
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Shame there is no 'Heart of Darkness' as I've still not seen it! :(
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Originally Posted by bradavon:
Just because it's missing the documentary you're not going to bother Sethos. No offence but that seems really stupid.
As Filmbuff Ace said above, why bother doing new behind the scenes stuff if you have one of the best (if not the best) making of documentaries lying around? Hearts of Darkness is a stunning, stunning documentary about how badly things can go wrong while making a movie. The bizarre thing is that it looks like there will be little on the actual filming and its problems in this release, which mostly concentrates on post production and looking back on the movie, instead of including the stuff covered in Hearts of Darkness.
I already have both versions of the film itself, so an inclusion of Hearts of Darkness would be the number one reason for me to buy it.
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So while it's disappointing that it's not being included, it's not entirely surprising.
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Answer:
(by Kim Aubry, Producer of Apocalypse Now Redux)
In fact, the transfer of Apocalypse Now Redux (from film elements to High Definition digital videotape) was made with an aspect ratio of 2.0:1. This is consistent with the 1998 transfer of the original film Apocalypse Now done for DVD.
The aspect ratio 2.0:1 was chosen by the cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro, who supervised every aspect of this film transfer. Storaro believes that for the purpose of TV transfer, it is better to crop (slightly) the extreme left/right edges of the originally photographed frame and allow for a taller picture on both conventional and 16:9 TV monitors, because the video presentation will have more vertical resolution and detail and will be more impactful.
An orthodox 2.35:1 or 2.4:1 transfer would in some ways be a more accurate reflection of the framing seen in most cinemas, but the picture would be using only approximately 50% of the available scanning lines of the NTSC and PAL systems and hence have very limited vertical resolution. Storaro believes that since he himself composed these shots when the film was made and since he carefully made fine adjustments to the framing as needed in the transfer, the 2.0:1 transfer is the best possible compromise in adapting the very wide film picture to the very "square" TV.
Mr Coppola and I agree with Storaro's views and accepted his decision.
You are right to wonder about the discrepancy between the theatrical trailer and the feature itself. But the feature is not 1.85:1, it is 2.0:1. The transfer of the trailer was not supervised by Storaro, and was done using the conventional theatrical aspect of 2.35:1. It doesn't bother us, as this is considered a DVD "extra."
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Watched Redux again recently and the uniquely weird ratio just kept bring me out of the film.
It just feels too close and a bit cramped to me and this is on an 80" screen.
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And also, televisions aren't all 'square' anymore.
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And now he willingly lets people cut bits off his film for commercial reasons.
What a load of crap.
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