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A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now (2006)
Video | 19 min | Documentary, Short

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A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now (2006)

Video | 19 min | Documentary, Short

The amount of film that ran through cameras in the hellish shooting conditions of the Philippines over 200 shooting days in the late 1970s was gargantuan, even by action film standards. The effort to make sense of the footage was a 2 year ...See moreThe amount of film that ran through cameras in the hellish shooting conditions of the Philippines over 200 shooting days in the late 1970s was gargantuan, even by action film standards. The effort to make sense of the footage was a 2 year odyssey taken on by four editors working under the direction of Francis Coppola. This documentary shows how the film was put together, taken apart and restructured in post production, with Captain Willard's [Martin Sheen] voice-over narration penned by Vietnam war era journalist Michael ["Dispatches"] Herr working together with Coppola and co-screenwriter John Milius. Written by Kim Aubry See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
Richard Beggs Self Self See fewer	Children of Men (2006)
Francis Ford Coppola Self (as Francis Coppola) Self (as Francis Coppola) See fewer	Apocalypse Now (1979)
Michael Herr Self Self See fewer	Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Richard Marks Self Self See fewer	As Good as It Gets (1997)
John Milius Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Walter Murch Self Self See fewer	The English Patient (1996)
Martin Sheen Self Self See fewer	The Departed (2006)