Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse is one of the all-time best documentaries about filmmaking, charting Francis Ford Coppola‘s arduous efforts to craft a Vietnam War epic cast in a Joseph Conrad mold—a vision that ultimately resulted in Apocalypse Now.
Directed by George Hickenlooper and Fax Bahr (using plentiful on-the-ground footage shot by Coppola’s wife Eleanor), it’s a mesmerizing portrait of genius and hubris, inspiration and foolishness, triumph and calamity. And given that the famed auteur never again reached the heights achieved on his 1979 classic, it’s also a snapshot of the last truly masterful gasp of a great artist.
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