We have already talked about Francis Ford Coppola’s major return to film, the epic project Megalopolis, which has been described as a visionary work, but is nevertheless having trouble finding a distributor. The movie is facing an uphill battle as we have reported, but it seems that Coppola has decided to do some of his own marketing to convince the studios to take his film. Not long ago, we provided you with a first-look image from the movie, showing stars Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel, and just today, a first teaser video focusing – once again – on Driver has been released, confirming several interesting things.
Just a brief reminder before we continue. As we have written, the story of Megalopolis is an interesting one altogether. The movie was conceived way back in 1979, while Coppola was filming Apocalypse Now, one of the greatest war movies ever made. Now, 45 years later, the movie is finally complete,...
Just a brief reminder before we continue. As we have written, the story of Megalopolis is an interesting one altogether. The movie was conceived way back in 1979, while Coppola was filming Apocalypse Now, one of the greatest war movies ever made. Now, 45 years later, the movie is finally complete,...
- 5/4/2024
- by Arthur S. Poe
- Fiction Horizon
Francis Ford Coppola is a brand name and undoubtedly one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. And while he has provided us with a series of classic movies over his long career, he has been inactive for many years until he recently blessed us with Megalopolis, a movie that is just as ambitious as it sounds but may remain as one of the year’s biggest mysteries. We have already reported on the early reactions and struggles that the movie is facing going forward, and we are glad to confirm that Vanity Fair has blessed us with an exclusive first-look image from the movie, which shows the film’s two main actors, Adam Driver, and Nathalie Emmanuel.
If you’re not fully acquainted with it, Megalopolis is an interesting story altogether, as the movie was conceived way back in 1979, while Coppola was filming Apocalypse Now, one of the greatest war movies ever made.
If you’re not fully acquainted with it, Megalopolis is an interesting story altogether, as the movie was conceived way back in 1979, while Coppola was filming Apocalypse Now, one of the greatest war movies ever made.
- 4/30/2024
- by Arthur S. Poe
- Fiction Horizon
Ballet Hispánico, the nation’s largest Latine/x/Hispanic dance organization recognized as one of America’s Cultural Treasures, continues its 2023/24 season. A Company that “compels audiences to think differently and lean into an unseen, unimaginable cultural vibrancy” (Broadway World), Ballet Hispánico amplifies Latinx artists and cultures through innovative contemporary works.
In honor of Eduardo Vilaro’s 15th season as Artistic Director of Ballet Hispánico, the program will feature the World Premiere of Buscando a Juan. Vilaro’s new work, inspired by The Met’s exhibition of Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter, is a layered and immersive piece inspired by the life of Juan de Pareja, the Afro-Hispanic painter who was enslaved in Spanish painter Diego Velázquez’s studio for over two decades before becoming an artist in his own right. The work, set to music by Osvaldo Golijov, is a thought-provoking homage to the nuanced dance of shared vulnerability...
In honor of Eduardo Vilaro’s 15th season as Artistic Director of Ballet Hispánico, the program will feature the World Premiere of Buscando a Juan. Vilaro’s new work, inspired by The Met’s exhibition of Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter, is a layered and immersive piece inspired by the life of Juan de Pareja, the Afro-Hispanic painter who was enslaved in Spanish painter Diego Velázquez’s studio for over two decades before becoming an artist in his own right. The work, set to music by Osvaldo Golijov, is a thought-provoking homage to the nuanced dance of shared vulnerability...
- 4/1/2024
- by Music MCM
- Martin Cid Music
After 13 years, legendary Oscar-winner Francis Ford Coppola is seemingly back with a new movie, Megalopolis, which is slated to be released in late 2024, although that could still be pushed back. After a controversial outing with 2011’s Twixt, Coppola has finished his new movie, a sci-fi epic with an ensemble cast, which has been screened for distributors in the United States. As of the time of writing, not much is known about the movie, but Deadline reports that the film’s runtime is 2 hours and 13 minutes, and that is without the credits, but as Mark Fleming Jr. writes, the runtime seems “remarkably brief,” which indicates that Coppola has indeed made a great movie.
Megalopolis is an interesting story altogether, as the movie was conceived way back in 1979, while Coppola was filming Apocalypse Now, one of the greatest war movies ever made. Now, 45 years later, the movie is finally complete, as the...
Megalopolis is an interesting story altogether, as the movie was conceived way back in 1979, while Coppola was filming Apocalypse Now, one of the greatest war movies ever made. Now, 45 years later, the movie is finally complete, as the...
- 3/30/2024
- by Arthur S. Poe
- Fiction Horizon
Forty-four were invited to join the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, including Kendrick Lamar, whose contributions to the “Black Panther” soundtrack are riding high on the album charts; songwriter Melissa Etheridge, who won an Oscar for her song for “An Inconvenient Truth”; and recent Oscar nominees Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka (“Lion”), Sufjan Stevens (“Call Me By Your Name”), Carlinhos Brown (“Rio”) and Benoit Charest (“The Triplets of Belleville”).
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, whose work with Prince catapulted them into the limelight and who have gone on to do films (“Dangerous Minds”) and considerable television, were also invited, as were composers Jeff Beal, Fil Eisler and Sharon Farber, whose best-known feature-film credits are in the documentary arena.
Classical composers Osvaldo Golijov and Joanna Bruzdowicz are on the list, as are other composers from England and the Continent: Daniel Pemberton (“Steve Jobs”), Eric Serra (“The Fifth Element...
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, whose work with Prince catapulted them into the limelight and who have gone on to do films (“Dangerous Minds”) and considerable television, were also invited, as were composers Jeff Beal, Fil Eisler and Sharon Farber, whose best-known feature-film credits are in the documentary arena.
Classical composers Osvaldo Golijov and Joanna Bruzdowicz are on the list, as are other composers from England and the Continent: Daniel Pemberton (“Steve Jobs”), Eric Serra (“The Fifth Element...
- 6/25/2018
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Brad Pitt has reportedly been spending time with accomplished MIT professor Neri Oxman.
The duo connected over their shared love of design and architecture, a source told Page Six TV, adding that their relationship “is best described as a professional friendship.” While the source said the friendship is not romantic in nature, Pitt is “interested in spending more time” with Oxman.
A rep for the actor declined to comment to Page Six TV, but a friend of Pitt’s told the outlet that the two are “just friends.”
“She is genius and gorgeous,” a source tells People.
Pitt and Oxman,...
The duo connected over their shared love of design and architecture, a source told Page Six TV, adding that their relationship “is best described as a professional friendship.” While the source said the friendship is not romantic in nature, Pitt is “interested in spending more time” with Oxman.
A rep for the actor declined to comment to Page Six TV, but a friend of Pitt’s told the outlet that the two are “just friends.”
“She is genius and gorgeous,” a source tells People.
Pitt and Oxman,...
- 4/6/2018
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
Blu-ray Release Date: Dec. 4, 2012
Price: Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Lionsgate
Francis Ford Coppola fans who’ve haven’t been keeping up with the great filmmaker’s works on Blu-ray get a chance to catch up with the well-priced release of Francis Ford Coppola 5-Film Collection Blu-ray. A quintet the five-time Academy Award winner’s movies, all of which have been previously issued on Blu-ray, are being issued together for the first time as a high-definition boxed set, complete with a slew of extras.
Here’s a breakdown of the musical, drama and war films that comprise the collection, along with their bonus features:
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
This is the definitive version of Francis Ford Coppola’s stunning vision of the heart of darkness in all of us, re-edited and re-mastered with 49 minutes of additional footage.
Audio commentary by Director Francis Ford Coppola
Nastassia Kinski grows on Frederic Forrest in Coppola's One from the Heart.
Price: Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Lionsgate
Francis Ford Coppola fans who’ve haven’t been keeping up with the great filmmaker’s works on Blu-ray get a chance to catch up with the well-priced release of Francis Ford Coppola 5-Film Collection Blu-ray. A quintet the five-time Academy Award winner’s movies, all of which have been previously issued on Blu-ray, are being issued together for the first time as a high-definition boxed set, complete with a slew of extras.
Here’s a breakdown of the musical, drama and war films that comprise the collection, along with their bonus features:
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
This is the definitive version of Francis Ford Coppola’s stunning vision of the heart of darkness in all of us, re-edited and re-mastered with 49 minutes of additional footage.
Audio commentary by Director Francis Ford Coppola
Nastassia Kinski grows on Frederic Forrest in Coppola's One from the Heart.
- 10/23/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Francis Ford Coppola's latest film production mixes the surreal with murder. Currently at the Toronto International Film Festival, Twixt also takes some elements from Edgar Allan Poe's writings e.g murder mystery. In a small town local writer Hall (Val Kilmer) is shopping his latest failing tale titled Witch Hunter, when he is introduced to real horror. Several people have gone missing likely due to a serial killer.
Now, the first trailer has been released for Twixt. This clip is over 3 minutes long and there are some colourful dream sequences to be seen in the reel. Have a look at Coppola's surreal masterpiece below.
The synopsis for Twixt is here:
"A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by...
Now, the first trailer has been released for Twixt. This clip is over 3 minutes long and there are some colourful dream sequences to be seen in the reel. Have a look at Coppola's surreal masterpiece below.
The synopsis for Twixt is here:
"A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by...
- 8/2/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
For his next film, Francis Ford Coppola continues his independent streak, financing "Twixt Now and Sunrise" himself and shooting at least part of it on his property in Napa. It's a horror picture starring Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, and Ben Chaplin as "Edgar Allan Poe." Coppola last tried his hand at horror in 1992 with "Dracula," which was both great and terrible. I still blame it for my absinthe addiction.
Coppola sometimes makes strange choices, to put it mildly, especially in casting. Another potentially strange choice is his pick of Baltimore electronic musician, Dan Deacon to score "Twixt Now and Sunrise," currently in post production. Pitchfork hears that "Deacon and Coppola are also 'collaborating on a larger level, details of which will be announced soon.'" Interesting, what's larger than a film?
Deacon will not be scoring along, also composing is Osvaldo Golijov, who scored Coppola's "Youth Without Youth" and the more recent,...
Coppola sometimes makes strange choices, to put it mildly, especially in casting. Another potentially strange choice is his pick of Baltimore electronic musician, Dan Deacon to score "Twixt Now and Sunrise," currently in post production. Pitchfork hears that "Deacon and Coppola are also 'collaborating on a larger level, details of which will be announced soon.'" Interesting, what's larger than a film?
Deacon will not be scoring along, also composing is Osvaldo Golijov, who scored Coppola's "Youth Without Youth" and the more recent,...
- 1/12/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
The Cinema Eye Honors, devoted to highlighting the best of the year's nonfiction films, have flipped for Lixin Fan's fantastic "Last Train Home," which follows a family of migrant workers as they struggle to stay connected while living separated by hundreds of miles. "Last Train Home" received the most nominations -- seven -- while Banksy's "Exit Through The Gift Shop" and Afghanistan documentary "Armadillo" each received six. The award ceremony will take place on January 18 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and will be broadcast on the Documentary Channel.
Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Armadilllo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg
Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen...
Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Armadilllo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg
Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen...
- 11/5/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Chicago – It’s been thirty-five years since Francis Ford Coppola wrote an original screenplay for one of his pictures, and though “Tetro” is certainly not in the same league as his last singular written work (1974’s “The Conversation”), it is still the most cinematically exciting, hauntingly beautiful, and achingly personal film he’s made in decades.
The low-budget, intimate “Tetro” is easily his best work since 1986’s “Peggy Sue Got Married,” and it shares some striking similarities with his 1983 drama “Rumble Fish.” That film was about a troubled kid (Matt Dillon) who strained to live up to the formidable reputation of his older brother (Mickey Rourke). “Tetro” is also about the dysfunctional relationship between two brothers, and Coppola originally intended to cast Dillon as the older sibling (the role eventually went to controversial indie filmmaker Vincent Gallo). Like “Fish,” “Tetro” is shot in a richly nostalgic yet sharply crisp black...
The low-budget, intimate “Tetro” is easily his best work since 1986’s “Peggy Sue Got Married,” and it shares some striking similarities with his 1983 drama “Rumble Fish.” That film was about a troubled kid (Matt Dillon) who strained to live up to the formidable reputation of his older brother (Mickey Rourke). “Tetro” is also about the dysfunctional relationship between two brothers, and Coppola originally intended to cast Dillon as the older sibling (the role eventually went to controversial indie filmmaker Vincent Gallo). Like “Fish,” “Tetro” is shot in a richly nostalgic yet sharply crisp black...
- 5/5/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In case you’ve forgotten the name of one of America’s most talented and under-appreciated auteurs, let me reintroduce you to Francis Ford Coppola. Forget about Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Trilogy and Bram Stoker’S Dracula for a moment. We all know and love those films, including those of you who don’t No need to raise your hands and make yourselves look silly. Coppola is so much more than these films, but they’re the only ones he ever gets remembered for.
Let me first take you back to 1974 and a little film called The Conversation starring Gene Hackman, perhaps one of the most under-rated films of all time. Next I would like to fast forward a bit to a pair of little films from 1983 called The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. After having first read the 1967 book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton in school, I fell in love...
Let me first take you back to 1974 and a little film called The Conversation starring Gene Hackman, perhaps one of the most under-rated films of all time. Next I would like to fast forward a bit to a pair of little films from 1983 called The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. After having first read the 1967 book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton in school, I fell in love...
- 9/18/2009
- by Travis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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