Movies
October, 1979
The debates about Apocalypse Now will rage for a long time to come. After an enormous outlay of time and energy, is producer-director Francis Coppola's monumental drama a masterpiece or is it not? Does it have to be? Because of deadline pressures, I was able to view Apocalypse only as a work in progress, precisely the way it was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. The final prints shipped to theaters will have revised narration written by Michael Herr (author of Dispatches). There'll be minor cha...
