Metrograph

Twenty-two years after emerging from the bush with his psychotropic, hallucinatory vision of the Vietnam War by way of Joseph Conrad and the lens of visionary cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, Coppola went upriver one more time on the hunt for his elusive masterwork. The result, featuring a full 49 minutes of previously unseen footage—including a languid visit to a French plantation stuck outside of time—wasn’t a “recut” so much as a new movie, richer, stranger, and more psychedelic than ever before. A film that exists in the ghastly hangover of two imperialist sprees.

35mm IB-Technicolor print courtesy of Peter Conheim/Cinema Preservation Alliance

Distributor: Rialto Pictures