Francis Ford Coppola talk on Apocalypse Now 40 years restoration at Tribeca Film Festival 2019

"You gambled and you won." Yeah, but on his next film One From The Heart he gambled and lost, both commericially and critically, forcing his own company American Zoetrope into financial difficulty.

Really, the '70s were his best decade. Everything after that pales in comparison. Perhaps misery and youth (he turned 40 in 1979) was essential to his creative peak......

Happy he's lost weight.

This guy is still alive?

What he pulled off was incredible.

A true visionary

great statements....

I saw the new final cut recently and it left me stunned. I felt like I had been punched in the gut. An incredible experience seeing this on the big screen with the new sound. If you get the chance to see it in a cinema don't miss it.

If Coppola had shot over a million feet of film for Godfather Part 2 or The Conversation, would he keep tinkering with them too. For me the 1979 original cut is artistically the version for me as it was done under such stress and is the honest representation. Loved redux but for me was a dvd extras tacked on

is that Soderbergh interviewing?

I saw the 2019 version late last night in Basildon, Essex. It was brilliant gripping drama.

Coppola is a genius - Godfather part 1/2, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now - one of the all time great visionary directors. Because of only these three movies I would put him ahead of Scorsese , Spielberg, Altman, Polanski etc. I just saw Apocalypse Final cut at the local Imax last night, on the big screen for the first time ever. A small screen at home can never, ever do this piece of cinema history justice. It was and is a astonishing, powerful, mind blowing experience . Where are the Coppola's of today in American cinema ?

soddenberg..looks...like a complete clown...what a disappointment of a questioner....TEXTBOOK COWARDICE!!!!!

He wants to do a new movie on Utopia. It's easy for a super rich man to spew communism and tell you how great it is...Meanwhile he stays rich! Ha! What joke!

There’s no hell? I would rather live as if there is one because that is one big gamble to get wrong

Fckng greatest movie, final cut Up there with Citizen Cane period !!

Greatest film into the Darkness of Man period !!

holy cow. just right up there on stage...the greatest director who ever lived...interviewing Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather(1972)
The Godfather:Part II(1974)
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula
classics and my favorite movies and Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula is extremely good

Thanks for this video!

70’s was the best era of Hollywood, I know there will be lot of debate..... but, just think, what we got as an audience were gems like Godfather, TaxiDriver, Apocalypse now, Dog Day Afternoon, Star Wars,.....list goes on and on. Actors like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Best of Marlon Brando,....directors like Francis Ford, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen....

He pulled off the impossible.

He s a great artist, a great director , i like to listening to him about his movie apocalipse now .

Si sentivano storie , tales ,nella mia generazione , tales di un certo fascino in alcuni anni , dal cinema ,da canzoni e musicisti , da persone reali ed eventi veri , ed altri invece inventati con film , romanzi , e canzoni, un mix di storie vere e inventate e di personaggi , di questi luoghi lontani dall Italia, oltreoceano , il Bronx , Little Italy, Brooklyn, Harlem , Manhattan, Coney Island , Central Park ,Park Avenue.. quel tipo di cinema con Al Pacino e Robert de Niro , artisti di NY , il famoso actors studio fondato da lee Strasberg a N.Y e mentre la capitale del cinema,
con gli studios , Hollywood , la fabbrica dei sogni , e dall altra parte , Los Angeles , California .

The Godfather Trilogy
Apocalypse Now
The Outsiders
Rumble Fish
Are my favorite Coppola films

Great movie from start to end classic

The movie was a Smelly Turd........I will say Tucker was very good though.

Apocalypse Now is a journey into the darkest parts of human existence. A unique film.

nice synopsis of the total experience by the interviewer at the end

Apocalypse Now Oscars Highway Robbery
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Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Brando)
Best Screenplay
Best Music
Best Editing

WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT ---- NO MATTER WHAT SCENE YOU WATCH FROM APN --- THEY ARE ALWAYS AMAZING BEGINNING WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHY --- VIVID COLORS, TREMENDOUS DARKNESS AND DEPTH --- SCINTILLATING BRIGH TLIGHTS --- SMOKINESS --- THE NARRATIVE IS SO SUCH ABOUT IT SELF -=- A ONE MAN'S JOURNEY INTO HELL IN VIETNAM AT THE END OF THE WAR I GUESS. I WONDER IF FFC IS AWARE THAT HE GOT GREAT MATERIAL FROM THE DAY TO DAY SCENES THEY SHOT. ONE WOULD THINK HE DID KNOW. BUT THE FILM ITSELF IS A LONE NARRATIVE AND JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESS. CONVINCING. HOW ABOUT A SEQUEL?

I LIKE ALL HIS FILMS INCLUDING HIS EIGHTIES PICTURES AND SO ON.

HE MIGHT MEAN "FAKE" MORALITY?

APN IS AN ART FILM OF SORTS AND COULD HAVE BEEN EVEN MORE SO --- AN ART-WAR FILM THAT'S NOT CHEAPENING EITHER SIDE OF THE EQUATION.

I have heard of it smoothies and I've seen the his name on film as director and loved his movies but I've never heard him speak for. It sounds genuine.

I want to know if the bull being chopped up in front of our very eyes was real ?

Hell yeah, he won! Words will never express how much it means to me that this movie got a 40 Year Anniversary ✨.

Brilliant man

He’s a genius

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I think a lot of "Apocalypse Now" is about the hypocrisy of humanity. Coppola mentions the line: "I've seen grown men drop fire on people, but their commanding officers won't allow them to write the f-word on their airplanes because it is obscene". Other lines like "Charging a man with murder in this war was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500". When a VietCong woman throws a live grenade into a medevac helicopter it leads to one line of unforgettable hypocrisy. "F-ing savages!" says Kilgore in response to her attack after his cavalry (gloriously and exhilartingly) terrorizes and strafes a quiet village into a medevac helicopter. We the audience become part of the hypocrisy of war.

Just what he said with the sperm and the egg is so beautiful, that it illuminates the immorality of abortion.

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