Movie Club: Apocalypse Now (1979)

🌑 Apocalypse Now (1979) takes the #30 spot on the Top 100. Francis Ford Coppola's war epic captures the chaos of Vietnam and the madness of empire.

Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent upriver to find and assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a decorated officer who has gone dangerously off the map.

What follows are some of cinema’s most unforgettable scenes: helicopters blasting Wagner, soldiers surfing mid-firefight, Brando’s shadow-drenched whispers of “the horror… the horror.”

Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Coppola reimagines its journey upriver in the jungles of Vietnam, where war itself becomes a metaphor for moral and psychological collapse.

That enduring power is why it sits so high on the Top 100 list. It's still crackling with relevance and artistry more than 45 years later.

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