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 a little (and only very little) beyond the actual facts of the case." Other critiques include Hugh Curtler's "Achebe on Conrad: Racism and Greatness in Heart of Darkness" (1997). Moving beyond ideology critique, French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe called "Heart of Darkness" "one of the greatest texts of Western literature" and used Conrad's tale for a reflection on "The Horror of the West". "Heart of Darkness" is criticised in postcolonial studies, particularly by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. In his 1975 public lecture "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness", Achebe described Conrad's novella as "an offensive and deplorable