Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (
1991) is a documentary about the making of the film
Apocalypse Now.The title is derived from the source material for Apocalypse Now, the
Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness. Using behind the scenes footage, and narrated by
Eleanor Coppola, it chronicles how production problems including bad weather, actors' health and other issues delayed the film, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of
Francis Ford Coppola. In 1990, Eleanor Coppola turned her material over to two young filmmakers
George Hickenlooper and Fax Bahr who then shot new interviews with the original cast and crew and intercut them with her existing material. After a year of editing, Hickenlooper, Bahr, and Coppola debuted their film at the
Cannes International Film Festival to universal critical acclaim.
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