( 1970 ), Patton ( 1970 ), and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), which all show the trials and hardships of war, are still considered classic war films.

Another example is Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, which, like the original film, polarized the audience, with some fans considering the original version to be the definitive cut.

He was unable to build on his success for several years, until a featured role in Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) brought him attention.

He next directed Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), notorious for its overlong and strenuous production, but critically acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War, winning the Palme d ' Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.

Coppola would later use Morrison's well-known song " The End " in Apocalypse Now.

Following the success of The Godfather, The Conversation and The Godfather Part II, Coppola began filming Apocalypse Now, an adaptation of Conrad ’ s Heart of Darkness set in Cambodia during the Vietnam War ( Coppola himself briefly appears as a TV news director ).

The 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, directed by Eleanor Coppola ( Francis's wife ), Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper, chronicles the difficulties the crew went through making Apocalypse Now, and features behind-the-scenes footage filmed by Eleanor.

After filming Apocalypse Now, Coppola famously stated: " We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

In 2001, Coppola re-released Apocalypse Now as Apocalypse Now Redux, restoring several sequences lost from the original 1979 cut of the film, thereby expanding its length to 200 minutes.

Apocalypse Now marked the end of the golden phase of Coppola's career.

It was the first box-office success for Coppola since Apocalypse Now.

His father Carmine, a composer and professional musician, co-wrote much of the music in The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now.

Four of Coppola's films-The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now and Patton featured in WGAW's list of 101 greatest screenplays ever.

Three of his films feature in AFI's 100 Years … 100 Movies: The Godfather (# 2 ), Apocalypse Now (# 28 ) and The Godfather Part II (# 32 ).

The most famous adaptation is Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 motion picture Apocalypse Now, which moves the story from the Congo to Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

In Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen plays Captain Benjamin L. Willard, a US Army officer charged with " terminating " the command of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz.

He finished out the decade of the 1970s with his controversial performance as Colonel Walter Kurtz in another Coppola film, Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), a box office hit for which he was highly paid and that helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s.

Brando starred as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now.

" Similarly, Louie Kemp, in his article for Jewish Journal, wrote: " You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in " Apocalypse Now ," but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most.

* The Apocalypse Now Sessions: The Rhythm Devils Play River Music ( 1980 ) – The Rhythm Devils

* After its initial release, Paramount bought the worldwide distribution rights to Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now ( on behalf of Coppola's company American Zoetrope ).

* Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) — winner of two Academy Awards, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation ( 1974 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ); in the latter film he played a smarmy officer named " G.

* 1979: Apocalypse Now

He achieved fame with roles in the films Badlands ( 1973 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), and made notable appearances in Wall Street ( 1987 ), The Departed ( 2006 ), The Amazing Spider-Man ( 2012 ), and the Mass Effect video game trilogy.

* 1979: Apocalypse Now-Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, Nat Boxer

Palme d ' Or attributed to Apocalypse Now at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival

Aguirre ’ s visual style and narrative elements had a strong influence on Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

This was followed by a series of critically lauded performances in films which were also commercial successes: The Godfather ( 1972 ), The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ), Network ( 1976 ), The Great Santini ( 1979 ), Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), and True Confessions ( 1981 ).

Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ).

Finale episode " Restless " delves into the characters ' psyches through dream sequences ; Xander's dream involves his erotic attraction to Buffy's mom ( Kristine Sutherland ), Willow and her girlfriend Tara ( Amber Benson ), his fear of his abusive father, and features a re-enactment of 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

Back onstage for an encore, the Chili Peppers ' lead singer Anthony Kiedis remarked how amazing the fires looked from the stage, comparing them to the 1979 film Apocalypse Now.

* Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Apocalypse Now, a popular film about the Vietnam War, draws heavily from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now centers on the protagonist's mission to find and kill the renegade Colonel Kurtz, based on Conrad's character, who has gone rogue far up a river, deep in the Southeast Asian jungle.

* Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) – Francis Coppola

His most famous film role to date is probably that of Chief Phillips in Francis Ford Coppola's award-winning Apocalypse Now.

The greatest successes, however, came with the films of the Monty Python team, including And Now for Something Completely Different ( 1971 ), Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ) and Monty Python's Life of Brian in 1979.

After a brief and unpopular animated series in 1973 by Nippon Television, Doraemon remained fairly exclusive in manga from until 1979 when a newly formed animation studio, Shin-Ei Animation ( Now owned by TV Asahi ) produced an anime series of Doraemon.

The band followed up with Duty Now for the Future in 1979, which moved the band more towards electronic instrumentation.

* Duty Now for the Future ( 1979 )

* 1979: Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren

The MEAC experienced its first expansion in 1979 when Bethune – Cookman College ( Now Bethune – Cookman University ) and Florida A & M University were admitted as new members.

However, with " Catch Me Now I'm Falling " ( 1979 ), " Destroyer " ( 1981 ), " Clichés of the World ( B Movie )" ( 1983 ) and " Do It Again " ( 1984 ), the Davies brothers cranked out strident, heavy-riffing hard rock that conveyed an attitude of bitter cynicism and world weary disillusionment.

He is best known for his works A Long Day ’ s Dying ( his first work, published in 1950 ); The Book of Bebb, a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb published in 1979 ; Godric, a first person narrative of the life of the medieval saint, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 ; Brendan, a second novel narrating a saint ’ s life, published in 1987 ; Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner ( 1992 ); and his autobiographical works The Sacred Journey ( 1982 ), Now and Then ( 1983 ), Telling Secrets ( 1991 ), and The Eyes of the Heart: Memoirs of the Lost and Found ( 1999 ).