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 presses Marlow for information, asking him to repeat Kurtz's final words. Uncomfortable, Marlow lies and tells her that Kurtz's final word was her name. Literary critic Harold Bloom wrote that "Heart of Darkness" had been analysed more than any other work of literature that is studied in universities and colleges, which he attributed to Conrad's "unique propensity for ambiguity". However, it was not a big success during Conrad's life. When it was published as a single volume in 1902 with two more novellas, "Youth" and "The End of the Tether", it received the least commentary from critics. F. R. Leavis