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“Some things I can’t talk about”: director Fax Bahr on Francis Coppola and the making of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse

Unravelling the myth and mayhem of Apocalypse Now’s troubled shoot, Hearts of Darkness is the ’making of’ movie to end them all. As it returns to cinemas in a new restoration, co-director Fax Bahr shares his memories of how it all came together.

By Leigh Singer

“Some things I can’t talk about”: director Fax Bahr on Francis Coppola and the making of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
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The director of Lollipop, along with cast members Posy Sterling, Idil Ahmed and TerriAnn Cousins, visit BFI Southbank to talk about Hudson's debut, a raw and urgent drama about one desperate mother’s relentless fight for justice against a broken system.

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