‘APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT’ at various theaters (Aug. 15, 18 and 19-25). Time has rendered a mixed verdict on “Apocalypse Now Redux.” On one hand, Francis Ford Coppola’s 2001 expansion of his 1979 masterpiece brought the film back to theaters in spectacular Technicolor dye-transfer prints. On the other, the new cut added a lot of stuff (a redundant sequence with the Playmates, the scene in which Marlon Brando’s character, Kurtz, reads from Time magazine) that seemed, shall we say, unnecessary. At a hair longer than three hours, this intermediate cut — which Coppola says is his preferred and final version — offers the best of both worlds. It retains the lengthy French plantation sequence without losing too much of the original cut’s momentum. And restored for laser projection and Dolby Atmos sound, it is almost certainly the most immersive and terrifying experience that can be had in a movie theater this year. “Final Cut” will screen in Imax-branded auditoriums around the country on Thursday and Aug. 18. In New York, it will play daily at the Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown Brooklyn from Aug. 19 to 25.

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PUNKS, POETS & VALLEY GIRLS: WOMEN FILMMAKERS IN 1980S AMERICA at BAM Rose Cinemas (through Aug. 20). This retrospective catalogs the triumphs of female directors in both mainstream and independent filmmaking in the 1980s — and shows how those two strains informed each other. After the punk stylings of “Smithereens” (on Saturday), Susan Seidelman delivered an enduring crowd-pleaser in “Desperately Seeking Susan” (on Saturday), predicated on an unlikely combination of Madonna and the influence of Jacques Rivette. “Smooth Talk” (on Sunday), an early Sundance prizewinner adapted from a Joyce Carol Oates short story, puts Laura Dern at the center of an uncommonly thorny coming-of-age story. Also screening are “Near Dark” (on Aug. 16), Kathryn Bigelow’s atmospheric modern riff on the vampire genre, and shorts from the L.A. Rebellion (on Aug. 19), a group of mainly African-American filmmakers who studied at U.C.L.A. and brought underrepresented neighborhoods of Los Angeles to the screen.

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