{"id":9813,"date":"2010-09-06T18:14:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T23:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=9813"},"modified":"2018-11-20T22:58:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T03:58:16","slug":"upcoming-apocalypse-now-blu-ray-restores-aspect-ratio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/06\/upcoming-apocalypse-now-blu-ray-restores-aspect-ratio\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming APOCALYPSE NOW Blu-ray Restores Aspect Ratio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you haven’t had the opportunity to see Francis Ford Coppolla’s Apocalypse Now<\/strong> in a theater, you haven’t seen the full picture that the director shot. I’m not talking about the film having footage edited from all subsequent home video releases. Instead, all video releases have been presented in a cropped format different from the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio. At the instance of the film’s cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, previous laser disc and DVD releases have been presented in 2:1.<\/p>\n

But the next month’s Blu-Ray disc release presents the film in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio for the first time ever on home video. There’s no word as to if Storaro has changed his mind about how the film should be presented, if Coppolla has over ruled Storaro or if Storaro’s wishes were just flat out ignored. You can see how the original aspect ratio looks in the film’s trailer –<\/p>\n

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And if that isn’t enough to get you thinking about next month’s release of the film, both original version and the 2001 re-edit Apocalypse Now Redux<\/strong> which restored 49 minutes to the film, on Blu-Ray, then check out these additional features.<\/p>\n

Apocalypse Now (Two-Disc Special Edition)<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n