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AMIABLE proudly presents:

'-, -' .'              Apocalypse.Now.Redux.1979.720p.BluRay.X264-AMIABLE

/ ,'  _;--;|                     Date .....: 9th October 2010
you are my                Runtime ..: 03:16:10
|| .==,=.              Size .....: 7.95gb
Video ....: 1280x544 (X264 @ 23.976fps)
,||`'=...__\            Bitrate ..: 4290kbps
Audio ....: DTS 5.1 1509kbps
sweetest downfall..             Source ...: Retail Region A Blu-Ray
||,                    Lang .....: English
Subs .....: English / English SDH / French / Spanish
,||                     IMDB .....: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/
Rating ...: 8.6/10 (174,348 votes)
I loved you first              Screens ..: Opening Week - $96,992 (USA) (5 August 2001) (2 Screens) (reissue)
Genre ....: Drama | War
||,                    Director .: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast .....: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest

Notes ....: This is the longer 2001 cut. We still tagged it 1979
as imdb doesn't have a seperate entry for it. This blu-ray restores
the original 1:2.35 aspect ratio (vs 1:2.00 in past releases).

The Blu-Ray cover states the movie is 202mins long but in
reality it's actually 196mins. The "missing" 6 minutes (the '79 theatrical
cut on the disc is also 6mins shorter than stated) are the end credits which
are _not_ included with the movie. We played the disc back and
forth and also all the m2ts files and they are nowhere on the
movie disc. They are however available seperately on the bonus
special features disc but only with commentary audio. The movie also
doesn't have opening credits.

Upon further research this seems to have been a much discussed subject.
It was an artistic decision made by Coppola dating back to when the movie
was first shown in cinemas, and it did intentionally without any
credits. There have been cuts that included different variations of end
credits - white over black and most famously the one known as "Destruction
of the Kurtz Compound" (which is an extra feature on Disc2 of this new release).
Some past dvd releases had the end credits seperate from the actual movie as
bonus feature. Looks like the Coppola supervised blu-ray release recreates the
original screenings, only the art department was not notified what the real
runtime is :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_now#Endings :

"The original 1979 70 mm exclusive theatrical release ended with
Willard's boat, the stone statue, then fade to black with no credits,
save for '"Copyright 1979 Omni Zoetrope"' right after the film ends.
This mirrors the lack of any opening titles and supposedly stems from
Coppola's original intention to "tour" the film as one would a play:
the credits would have appeared on printed programs provided before
the screening began."

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