APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX Film Screening (ENG subs)
Sunday 7. December at 19:50 - 23:20
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
Francis Ford Coppola | 2001 | USA | 197 minutes
Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles. There'll be a brief 10 minute intermission in the middle.
Strap yourself in for 3.5 hours of pure unadulterated cinema, APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX is the restored and expanded version of Coppola’s Vietnam epic. It reassembles material from the original 1979 production and restores scenes that deepen the journey into the country, the river, and the disturbed psychology of its characters.
The story follows Captain Benjamin Willard, a soldier pulled from Saigon and sent upriver on a classified mission to find and kill Colonel Kurtz, a once respected officer who has abandoned the army and built his own violent kingdom in the jungle.
The film moves through a series of escalating encounters with frightened teenagers, trigger-happy officers, drugged soldiers and exhausted civilians. Each metre further upriver helps build a picture of a war with no clear logic or centre, pushing Willard closer to Kurtz, and closer to the possibility that the mission itself is an attempt to wipe out a man who has simply recognised the truths everyone else is avoiding.
Coppola shapes the film with sound, heat, colour, and physical detail. The jungle feels alive and hostile. Conversations cut off in mid-thought. Explosions arrive without warning. The images carry a feverish intensity that has lost none of its power. The performances from Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Dennis Hopper are captured at their absolute creative peak.
REDUX adds new dimensions to the original film. The restored plantation sequence shifts the tone toward historical memory. The extended scenes with the Playboy bunnies reveal the chaos and moral drift of the troops. Small additions across the film give space to characters who once felt secondary and allow the story to breathe in ways the 1979 version did not.
APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX remains one of the most ambitious and overwhelming films ever committed to celluloid. It is a war film, a psychological descent, and a portrait of a nation unravelling in real time. it's 'making of' is the stuff of the legend - everything from tsunamis and dengue fever to a real actual heart attack struck the cast and crew. It's a miracle it was even completed. Nothing else in American cinema looks or feels quite like it.
Location: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
How to find FOMO: Enter the Bazari via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs immediately on your left behind the jewellery stand. The cinema entrance is one flight up in the stairwell.
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
