The Bootleg Files: The Apocalypse Now Workprint

Posted on September 27, 2024 by Phil Hall

BOOTLEG FILES 880: “The Apocalypse Now Workprint” (five-hour version of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 classic).

LAST SEEN: On Internet Archive and YouTube.

AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.

REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: Coppola doesn’t want this to be commercially released.

CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Nope.

I have a confession to make: I never liked “Apocalypse Now.” I’ve seen it several times, and with each new viewing I wished that my indifference to the film would be replaced with a sudden awakening of belated appreciation. I was hopeful that the longer “Apocalypse Now Redux” would trigger a positive response, but I found that more annoying than the original.
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The Pros and Cons of Remakes

Posted on February 27, 2023 by Phil Hall

Remakes are the trickiest movies to create – especially when it is a classic that is getting a second telling. On this episode of “The Online Movie Show,” actor/writer Kevin Dolan offers insight on some of the most successful and most painful remakes in movie history.

The episode can be heard here.

When Brando Goes Bonkers

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Phil Hall

No one ever truly sliced the ham like Marlon Brando, and this episode of “The Online Movie Show” celebrates the movie icon when he plumbed his most extreme eccentricities. Our guest is Facebook’s funniest man, Anthony “Kingfish” Vitamia.

The episode can be heard here.

The Best in Movie Miscasting

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Phil Hall

John Wayne as Genghis Khan? Lucille Ball as Mame? On this episode, we celebrate some of the most wonderfully misguided examples of movie miscasting, including some still-controversial casting decisions (Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Dolittle, Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levi) and some noble endeavors that went awry (Marlon Brando’s Fletcher Christian, Jane Fonda as Ibsen’s Nora). Actor/writer Joe Mannetti returns to “The Online Movie Show” to give praise to the actors in the wrong roles.

The episode can be heard here.

Mario Puzo’s The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901-1959 (2016)

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Felix Vasquez

After presenting various cuts of “The Godfather” trilogy over the years presented on television, HBO has decided to offer up their own version of Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” entitled “The Complete Epic.” Clocking in at a little over seven hours and presented in HD, the idea for “The Complete Epic” is that “The Godfather” and “The Godfather II” are spliced together telling the entire saga of the Corleones chronologically. They then injected a lot of deleted and or extended scenes for the purpose of exposition and further elaboration on plot points somewhat evaded and under explained in the aforementioned films. As well, what’s considered “The Complete Epic” does not include the often maligned “The Godfather III.”

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