Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
2 & 7 November
Towner Cinema, Towner Art Gallery
Devonshire Park College Road Eastbourne BN21 4JJ
November on the big screen
In Downton Abbey (2–7 Nov) the Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for a royal visit that will – unbeknownst to them – unleash scandal, romance and intrigue, and leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.
Then, in the latest film from acclaimed director James Gray, Brad Pitt leaves Earth far behind in Ad Astra (9–14 Nov), in which an astronaut searches the outer edges of our solar system for his missing father, in doing so uncovers secrets that threaten to challenge our place in the cosmos.
In the uplifting comedy drama The Farewell (16–21 Nov), US-raised Billi returns to China when her grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and discovers that the family haven’t told their beloved matriarch – instead choosing to unite the family around her one last time under the joyful guise of a hastily planned wedding.
Following this, master satirist Chris Morris’s riotous farce, The Day Shall Come (23–28 Nov), draws on the absurdities of post 9/11 FBI sting operations. Impoverished, unstable preacher Moses (Marchánt Davis) leads a small band of African-American locals in Miami. FBI agent Kendra (Anna Kendrick), tasked with identifying terrorists before they strike, spots an opportunity to exploit his madcap revolutionary dreams.
2 & 7 November
With a critically-acclaimed cast including Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford and Laurence Fishburne, and restored from the original negative for the first time, Apocalypse Now: Final Cut is Coppola’s most realised version of this multi-award-winning film.
Army Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) ventures deep into the wilderness of Cambodia’s jungle on a dangerous top-secret mission to assassinate a rogue Green Beret, Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). His strange river journey leads him to Kurtz – but also forces him to come face to face with the terrifying vision of the heart of darkness in us all.
“An overwhelming sensory experience, with deep colors and nuanced sound amplifying the film’s hypnotic effect” – The Hollywood Reporter
Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
