Screening as part of The Films of Robert Duvall.
Apocalypse Now: Final Cut:
***Nominated for 8 Academy Awards® including Best Supporting Actor for Robert Duvall
***Winner 4 Golden Globe Awards including Best Supporting Actor for Robert Duvall
One of the most daring spectacles ever committed to film. A fever dream of war and madness, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, this visionary epic pushed the limits of production and storytelling, and emerged as a defining portrait of the Vietnam War’s psychological toll.
Among its monumental performances, Robert Duvall is unforgettable as Lt. Col. Kilgore, a swaggering cavalry officer whose surreal bravado captures the film’s haunting blend of spectacle and insanity. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and perennial fixture on greatest-films lists, Apocalypse Now endures as a landmark of American cinema.
1979, 183 minutes, USA, In English, French and Vietnamese with English Subtitles, Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Rated R
"It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I enjoyed it as much as anyone ever did." – Robert Duvall (Augustus "Gus" McCrae, Lonesome Dove)
Few actors embody American cinema with the quiet authority of Robert Duvall. Born in 1931, he emerged from the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he studied under Sanford Meisner alongside classmates Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, and James Caan.
Duvall made his film debut as the iconic Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird and rose to prominence with indelible performances in The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. Garnering six Academy Award nominations across four decades (finally winning the Oscar® for Tender Mercies), four Emmy® nominations, and winning four Golden Globe awards, Duvall balanced intimate character studies with epic dramas.
From M*A*S*H and Network to Days of Thunder and Lonesome Dove, Duvall has commanded the screen in Westerns, crime sagas, and fiercely independent films such as THX-1138, Sling Blade, and The Apostle. Enzian honors the legacy of one Hollywood’s most celebrated performers, a man whose career reflects a rare blend of restraint, gravitas, and enduring versatility.
“The ferocious, confident performance of Robert Duvall, as Colonel Kilgore, a jaunty lunatic who has embraced and been invigorated by the war, is the only one powerful enough to stand up to the film's visual (and aural) force.”
– The Boston Phoenix (November 6, 1979)
“A film that needs to be seen on the big screen.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“It is mystical, daring, poetic, thrilling, appalling and never less than utterly mesmerizing.”
– Marc Lee, The Telegraph
“Apocalypse Now is the ultimate war movie, a riveting adventure story, a searching and deeply committed probing of the moral problem of the Vietnam War.”
– Jack Kroll, Newsweek
