A new version of "Apocalypse Now" to 40 years after its premiere and a tribute to the three decades of the animated TV series "The Simpsons" shook the new edition of the Tribeca Film Festival, that since 2002 and impulse, among others, the actor Robert De Niro, It is held in New York.

The film was modernized with visual technology multiplied by 40 the intensity of the colors and 10 the black, promoting a proposal that was screened in US theaters for the first time 15 August 1979.

Coppola, present in the projection, He reviewed the difficulties faced meant that story about the Vietnam War as, He said, "Nobody wanted to support its realization. After the success of 'The Godfather’ It was expected to make a similar film to that ".But filmmaker 80 he decided to go ahead with the project because, He held, “If you want to make art you have to learn to be comfortable with the risk. You can not make art without risk, Like you can not make babies without sex”.

It was also held to "The Simpsons" in Tribeca with its 30 years of successful stays on the screen is the animated television series longest in history.”I drew Bart in five minutes on a napkin, yes”, He confessed to the series creator, Matt Groening, before confirming that designed the main characters of the strip on a couch while waiting to meet with James L. Brooks, one of the producers.

As for the future of the series, producer Al Jean said “US families. ever they have to face more problems”, something that provides creators “enough material” to write new episodes.