... BEST BETS: FILM Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola's compellingly grandoise Vietnam update of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, with Marlon Brando as renegade Green Berets major who has gone native and needs to be taken out in his jungle lair ...

... penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness. He had summed up - he had judged. 'The Horror!' He was a remarkable man.- Joseph Conrad's eulogy to Mr Kurtz in Heart of Darkness contains the idea that has spun its magic web through John Milius' life and career ...

... 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 ...

... emigre and novelist Zinovy Zinik returns to Moscow on a bizarre personal quest for mementos of his father. 6.30 Drama on 3. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, adapted for radio by Jeremy Howe. about a sea captain ordered to sail up the Congo in a bid to learn ...

... young pianist he takes under his wing. (1946) 6.00 . 8.30 Film: Lord Jim (BBC 2) Richard Brooks' worthy screen version of Joseph Conrad's classic stars Peter O'Toole as the young ex-ship's officer who, haunted by a single act of cowardice. sets out to redeem ...

... a reunion of concerned relatives. Beeban Kidron, an English director with a taste for the offbeat, has a fair shot at Joseph Conrad's epic about the attraction of opposites. Rachel (Land Girls) Weisz is a reclusive farm girl living a harsh life of mud ...

... widely prior to departure - Shelley, Flaubert, Rimbaud, Mark Twain, and Naguib Mahfouz are among those quoted. He reads Joseph Conrad's African novel, Heart of Darkness, no less than 13 times on his journey. AL HOPIUN South Africa is an anticlimax, familiar ...

... puts them with just one goal to pull back. The Secret Agent 9.25 10.25 (BBC 2) ■ Part two in a three-part adaption of Joseph Conrad's classic novel. Pole to Pole 9.30 10.20 (BBC 1) ■ On the third leg of his journey from pole to pole, Michael Around the ...

... described in AHD ELSEWHERE? You could head north to Nigeria to explore the literary terrain that inspired both Onitsha market Joseph Conrad's 1899 novel, it isn't currently safe to do so. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office literature, a kind of African ...

... acclaimed at the time as the American Chekhov. 11.20 12.45 am Film: Sabotage (Ch 4) Hitchcock's classic thriller, based on Joseph Conrad's 'The Secret Agent', with Oscar Homolka as the saboteur who, under the guise of managing a small cinema, is masterminding ...

... Moonstruck's 59 million dollars and Fatal Attraction's 150 million dollars. Fellow epic director David Lean, currently filming Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, has welcomed its success: Originally it was turned down by nearly everyone in Hollywood. It will make it that ...

... 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 ...