Apocalypse Now
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| Release date | Turkey |
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| Directors | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Featured song | Ride of the Valkyries |
| Adapted from | Heart of Darkness |
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| ID | 815032 |
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
BAFTA Award for Best Direction
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director
London Film Critics' Circle Award for Film of the Year
About Apocalypse Now
In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.
Star Wars illustrator Matt Ferguson and the return of classic poster art
... Where hand-painted efforts by the likes of Alvin and his contemporaries Drew Struzan (Back to the Future), Bob Peak (Apocalypse Now) and Richard Amsel (Raiders of the Lost Ark) were once the norm, the 1990s saw a shift towards more formulaic composition with airbrushed photographs of movies stars becoming dominant...
Banksy works sell for millions at auction
... Vandalised Oil (Choppers), showing two low-flying military helicopters, recalls the 1979 film about the Vietnam war, Apocalypse Now, when US attack helicopters strafe enemy positions to Richard Wagner s Ride of the Valkyries...
Banksy works sell for millions at auction
Two of Banksy's most recognisable artworks have sold for a combined total of More Than £7m at auction.
Vandalised Oils (Choppers), described by Auction House Sotheby's as having an " anti-war" message, went for almost £4. 4m, above The Initial estimate of between £2. 5m and 3. 5m.
Girl With Balloon fetched £2. 8m, after being priced at £2m to £3m.
Both pieces were sold by the London auctioneers having belonged to singer Robbie Williams .
Vandalised Oil (Choppers), showing two low-flying military helicopters, recalls the 1979 film about the Vietnam War , Apocalypse Now , when US attack helicopters strafe enemy positions to Richard Wagner 's Ride of The Valkyries .
In its catalogue note, Sotheby's said it also reflected Banksy's opposition to The Second Iraq War , when he handed out stencilled placards at London protests in 2003.
Girl with Balloon, in spraypaint on metal, was acquired by Williams directly from the Graffiti Artist in 2006.
The picture is one of his most famous images showing a young girl holding her hand out towards a red heart-shaped balloon.
A different version of the same work was in 2018.
Source of news: bbc.com
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