... of that experience, and pays homage to other writers who shared it - F Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Jack London and Joseph Conrad. Journey By Yehudi Menuhin Pimlico £l4 (UK) 479 pp BORN in New York in 1916 of Russian Jewish parents, Yehudi Menuhin made ...

... minute piece was jointly funded by the Irish Film Board and RTE. Both Apocalypse Now and Zulu 9 are linked by references to Joseph Conrad's book Heart of Darkness. The novel, which was the original inspiration for Apocalypse Now, also features in Zulu 9. ...

... Apocalypse Now Redux, which opens next Friday at Dublin's IFC and Cork's Kino cinemas. Inspired - like Apocalypse Now - by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it follows long-haul truck driver Gerard Carey on the last leg of a trip from Genoa out of Cherbourg ...

... endured in the Dominican Republic on Godfather 11. The Pentagon was even more unwilling to go along with a movie version of Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness set during the Vietnam War. The defence forces objected to the script's dark humour, and the ...

... taunts Willard: How do they smell to you, soldier? Coppola's urge to film Apocalypse Now was triggered by the words of Joseph Conrad's original Kurtz in the novella Heart of Darkness: I hate the stench of a lie. Claims Coppola: The fact that a culture ...