Heart of Darkness (1993 film) Heart of Darkness (1993 film) Heart of Darkness is a 1993 television adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s famous novella written by Benedict Fitzgerald, directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Isaach De Bankolé and James Fox. The show is the third screen adaptation of the novella, following a 1958 television adaptation for the anthology series "Playhouse 90" starring Boris Karloff, and 1979's "Apocalypse Now" with Marlon Brando, which loosely adapted it and updated it to the Vietnam War. The film was filmed as a co-production with Ted Turner's Turner Pictures, and then aired by his TNT network. Ivory
Heart of Darkness (opera) Thames Estuary, the tide has risen. Marlow's tale is at an end. His isolation from the truth of his actions and the atrocities witnessed - that "vast grave of unspeakable secrets" in which he speaks of being "buried" - is borne out in his epilogue: "we live, as we dream, alone". The premiere production of "Heart of Darkness" opened to largely positive reviews, both in print and online. Anna Picard described the opera as an "audacious, handsome debut" in "The Independent on Sunday" and Stephen Pritchard, in "The Observer", explained that "the brilliance of [the] opera lies in its ability