Apocalypse Now Final Cut (2019)

40 years after the original version of Apocalypse Now was released, Francis Ford Coppola decided not only to oversee a brand-new restoration of the film but also to create a brand-new cut. The Apocalypse Now final cut came out in 2019 and was a significant improvement of Apocalypse Now Redux. Much as he'd reversed a big mistake forty years earlier when he fired original Apocalypse Now star Harvey Keitel, Coppola took in the criticisms of the Redux version and crafted a new version that trimmed back many of the added scenes or cut them out again entirely. This cut paid much more attention to the ecology of the film and works much better than Redux. What was even more exciting about Apocalypse Now: Final Cut was that the new 4k transfer was made from the original film negative rather than the interpositive used in all previous transfers of the film, so the final cut is definitely the best-looking of all the versions and is the one that Coppola himself is most proud of.