Haven't seen in decades, but the scene with the grandparents made me bawl.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Monday, 18 April 2022 04:21 (two years ago) link
Nic cage’s performance in this movie is deranged but also a very good choice both things can be true
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 18 April 2022 04:58 (two years ago) link
Anyone see his recut of The Cotton Club?
― piscesx, Monday, 18 April 2022 11:10 (two years ago) link
Just watched Peggy Sue for the first time over the weekend & thought Cage was excruciating but miraculously the movie was still good
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 18 April 2022 12:25 (two years ago) link
Sam Wasson has a new book out; a friend says it's good, ordered it today.
https://www.harpercollins.com/cdn/shop/products/9780063037847.jpg?v=1701866614&width=350
― clemenza, Saturday, 9 December 2023 19:55 (six months ago) link
This comes up in the Wasson book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxuSXOukvBg
That's just before he announces Cimino as the winner of Best Director, a cause for some concern because Apocalypse Now was still in post-production.
I guess it's prophetic, but he's not saying anything that lots of writers had been saying long before that. He forgot to tell us how bad most of those technically wonderful films would be. Supposedly he had unwittingly ingested something drug-laced beforehand courtesy Bill Graham. (Cookies or something...book's out in the car right now.) Ali McGraw very much wants to be elsewhere.
― clemenza, Monday, 22 January 2024 00:27 (four months ago) link
("lots of writers had been saying" = hadn't)
― clemenza, Monday, 22 January 2024 00:38 (four months ago) link
1980 or '81, and lots of famous people are dropping in to look at the new Zoetrope compound.
Twenty-four-year-old Michael Lehmann had the honor of giving the War Room tour to Robert Wise, esteemed director of West Side Story and The Sound of Music.
"I don't know how knowledgeable you are about the details of the editorial process..." Lehmann offered to Wise.
"I edited Citizen Kane."
"Oh. Okay, good."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 17:29 (four months ago) link
At that point, hopes for the studio were still high before Coppola made 3D Stake From the Heart.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 17:45 (four months ago) link
I still haven't seen One from the Heart. I'm just running out the clock, hoping I die before I talk myself into it.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 17:49 (four months ago) link
I saw One From the Heart in 35mm during its 2002 re-release. It looked stunning, but I hate that Coppola cut material out of it, and this new cut is even shorter. There are at least 4 versions of it now.
The Wasson book isn’t nearly as good as his Bob Fosse bio or book on Chinatown. Too fawning and doesn’t really have nearly enough insights into what the fuck happened with Coppola/Wenders on Hammett. Some interesting material on unmade projects that were being developed by Zoetrope pre-THX-1138 and post-Apocalypse Now, though. The material on Carroll Ballard, who is a longtime favourite of mine, was interesting as well
― beamish13, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:13 (four months ago) link
The Wasson book isn’t nearly as good as his Bob Fosse bio or book on Chinatown.
Didn't read the Fosse book, but agree completely with the second half of that. It's been a real slog for me, with some point of interest now and again.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:32 (four months ago) link
Looks like Megalopolis got screened the other week:
The project, which Coppola first began writing in 1983, cost a reported $120 million to make — funded in part by the sale of a significant portion of his wine empire (the 2021 deal was reportedly worth over $500 million). Clocking in at two hours and 15 minutes, the film follows the rebuilding of a metropolis after its accidental destruction, with two competing visions — one from an idealist architect (Adam Driver), the other from its pragmatist mayor (Giancarlo Esposito) — clashing in the process. References to ancient Rome — including Caesar haircuts on the men — abound.Coppola, 84, has said no decisions will be made regarding a festival bow until a distribution plan is put in place. But while there was no shortage of curious suitors there — in addition to Rothman and Sarandos, Warner Bros.’ Pam Abdy, Disney live-action boss David Greenbaum, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and Paramount’s Marc Weinstock were all spotted — multiple sources inside the screening tell The Hollywood Reporter that Megalopolis will face a steep uphill battle to find a distribution partner. Says one distributor: “There is just no way to position this movie.”“Everyone is rooting for Francis and feels nostalgic,” adds another attendee. “But then there is the business side of things.”A third attendee noted “a conspicuous silence at the end of it,” but stopped short of writing off the film as a failed exercise. “Does it wobble, wander, go all over the place? Yes. But it’s really imaginative and does say something about our time. I think it’s going to be a small, specialized label [that picks it up].”
Coppola, 84, has said no decisions will be made regarding a festival bow until a distribution plan is put in place. But while there was no shortage of curious suitors there — in addition to Rothman and Sarandos, Warner Bros.’ Pam Abdy, Disney live-action boss David Greenbaum, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and Paramount’s Marc Weinstock were all spotted — multiple sources inside the screening tell The Hollywood Reporter that Megalopolis will face a steep uphill battle to find a distribution partner. Says one distributor: “There is just no way to position this movie.”
“Everyone is rooting for Francis and feels nostalgic,” adds another attendee. “But then there is the business side of things.”
A third attendee noted “a conspicuous silence at the end of it,” but stopped short of writing off the film as a failed exercise. “Does it wobble, wander, go all over the place? Yes. But it’s really imaginative and does say something about our time. I think it’s going to be a small, specialized label [that picks it up].”
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:36 (two months ago) link
(More at the link, including what sounds like a, how to put it, questionable scene involving Jon Voight.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:38 (two months ago) link
Megalopolis scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZL3U1j3K1c
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 4 May 2024 19:16 (one month ago) link
Trying to make sense of the Megalopolis descriptions in Sam Wasson's book--which starts present-day--was a real chore. That clip is sort of interesting, I guess, but hard to gauge much unless characters are interacting--Coppola's masterpieces in the '70s had great performances top to bottom
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 May 2024 22:04 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU1QyAYa60g
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 15:09 (one month ago) link
Reading reports on Twitter, this sounds terrible
― default damager (lukas), Thursday, 16 May 2024 20:41 (one month ago) link
Midnight Cowboy reunion! (True: I momentarily wondered if Voight and Hoffman had ever done a film together and googled it.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 May 2024 21:01 (one month ago) link
good screen slate podcast with vadim rizov sharing impressionss: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/episode-38-megalopolis-vadim-rizov
― devvvine, Thursday, 16 May 2024 21:06 (one month ago) link
as someone who thought the teaser looked awful, i'm glad to have been right. though the people who have been annoying about this film will continue to be so.
― devvvine, Thursday, 16 May 2024 21:07 (one month ago) link
David Ehrlich and Bilge Ebiri both liked ithttps://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/megalopolis-review-francis-ford-coppola-1235005694/https://www.vulture.com/article/review-francis-ford-coppolas-megalopolis-is-totally-nuts.html
― jaymc, Thursday, 16 May 2024 21:37 (one month ago) link
i'm more interested in interesting failures than boring ones so this sounds like it might be along those lines.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 16 May 2024 22:46 (one month ago) link
Two of my favorite film writers.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 May 2024 23:42 (one month ago) link
surprising no one i predict i will love this
― ivy., Friday, 17 May 2024 00:49 (one month ago) link
I've read some really scathing reviews, but it does sound interesting
― Dan S, Friday, 17 May 2024 00:50 (one month ago) link
Those reviews are a big red flag for me. "Fever dream" turns up in both; "...the beautiful, woozy, unforgettable, financially dead-on-arrival One From the Heart." For some people, I guess; I thought most of it was embarrassing.
― clemenza, Friday, 17 May 2024 01:06 (one month ago) link
looks cool to me. though I liked Twixt so am naturally excited to see what the director can do with a bigger budget.
― willips brighton the quorners (geoffreyess), Friday, 17 May 2024 01:07 (one month ago) link
Speaking of One From the Heart, Driver's haircut resembles Frederic Forrest's cut from OFTH.
― jbn, Saturday, 18 May 2024 13:46 (one month ago) link
I didn't like One From the Heart but I have more patience in this MU-dominated world by expensive auteurist farragoes. I'll watch this gladly.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 May 2024 13:51 (one month ago) link
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Crassus’ sociopathic court jester of a son, Clodio Pulcher (a palpably malevolent Shia LaBeouf)
glad the head start got coppola to this first
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 18 May 2024 14:13 (one month ago) link
the people who have been annoying about this film will continue to be so
new board description, surely
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 18 May 2024 14:15 (one month ago) link
lol the plot is based on the Cataline conspiracy
― default damager (lukas), Sunday, 9 June 2024 03:16 (one week ago) link
Lionsgate picks it up for late September release: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/francis-ford-coppolas-megalopolis-1235917022/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 June 2024 19:10 (yesterday) link
Really looking forward to this
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 17 June 2024 20:21 (yesterday) link