Comments on: The Holy Grail of Workprints: The Five-Hour Rough Version of ‘Apocalypse Now’ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-holy-grail-of-workprints-the-five-hour-rough-version-of-apocalypse-now/ Films and Filmmaking Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:22:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: 10 Director's Cuts That Are Much Longer Than the Theatrical Cuts https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-holy-grail-of-workprints-the-five-hour-rough-version-of-apocalypse-now/#comment-2196 Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:29:48 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=18780#comment-2196 […] The theatrical release of Apocalypse Now hovers around 2.5 hours, while a version titled Apocalypse Now: Redux was released in 2001, and increased the film's runtime to three hours and 22 minutes. Another official re-edit came in 2019, labeled as a Final Cut, which is in between the other two at 182 minutes. There's also an unofficial/bootleg edit of the film described as the workprint version, which runs for almost five hours. […]

]]> By: Christian E Schlegel https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-holy-grail-of-workprints-the-five-hour-rough-version-of-apocalypse-now/#comment-306 Wed, 31 May 2017 02:21:00 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=18780#comment-306 I agree with the “holy grail” terminology. I searched far and low before I found my copy. Now if I could only find the work print to “A Clockwork Orange”.

]]> By: David https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-holy-grail-of-workprints-the-five-hour-rough-version-of-apocalypse-now/#comment-205 Thu, 09 Jun 2016 03:38:00 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=18780#comment-205 In reply to Josh Hadley.

What other movies?

]]> By: Mike White https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-holy-grail-of-workprints-the-five-hour-rough-version-of-apocalypse-now/#comment-136 Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:38:00 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=18780#comment-136 In reply to cinephiliabeyond.

Okay, good to know. I was kind of hoping that the author might go so far as to rewrite the list to make it their own.

]]> By: cinephiliabeyond https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-holy-grail-of-workprints-the-five-hour-rough-version-of-apocalypse-now/#comment-135 Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:24:00 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=18780#comment-135 In reply to Josh Hadley.

This is the first time the WP is available on YouTube, we’re familiar with the rest of the story.

https://twitter.com/Hugo_Strange/status/653675953047080960

]]> By: cinephiliabeyond https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-holy-grail-of-workprints-the-five-hour-rough-version-of-apocalypse-now/#comment-134 Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:22:00 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=18780#comment-134 In reply to Mike White.

The ‘WHAT’S DIFFERENT IN THIS WP’ text has been cruising the web for about 10 years, “signed” under a zillion of different nicknames. We’re not able to credit the author of the text – we have no intention of promotion torrent websites. If you know the name of the original author, feel free to tell us and we’ll acknowledge it in the article.

]]> By: Mike White https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-holy-grail-of-workprints-the-five-hour-rough-version-of-apocalypse-now/#comment-133 Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:57:00 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=18780#comment-133 In reply to Mike White.

http://impossiblefunky.blogspot.com/2015/10/cinephilia-my-spleen-holy-grails.html

]]> By: Mike White https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-holy-grail-of-workprints-the-five-hour-rough-version-of-apocalypse-now/#comment-132 Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:28:00 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=18780#comment-132 Hey guys…. When was this article released? I notice a lot of similarities between this and the write-up for the torrent that is on MySpleen and I wasn’t sure who was ripping who off.

]]> By: Josh Hadley https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-holy-grail-of-workprints-the-five-hour-rough-version-of-apocalypse-now/#comment-131 Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:03:00 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=18780#comment-131 I have a 3 freaking tape VHS of this.

Also, Holy Grail? I have had a copy of this since 1999 for fucks sake. This is hardly a difficult one to encounter. I have workprints for movies that were never even released… not that hard to find.

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