you know, i think the only francis ford coppola movie i've ever seen in full is "tucker: the man and his dream"

i remember wanting to and trying to like that "heart" movie when it came out

even "the conversation" isn't quite as good as it think it is

the actual surveillance stuff is classic csi-style impossi-tech which is fun but silly (cf also the absurd blow-up)

the parallax-view plot is even sillier (esp. when its plucking yr sleeve and saying THIS IS A METAPHOR FOR AMERICA YDO YOU SEE?) (cz NO IT'S NOT)

as proved at the end when all turns to shit he suddenly turns into an unknown jazz great!!? :o

i like it lots, it's VERY watchable and pays good attention to sound obv, when lots of movies don't really, but its rep as an "important studio-suppressed masterwork" has way distorted how ppl respond to it, i think

coppola has very little common sense, and that begins to be peekin out round the corners of this film

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEOPLE_COPPOLA?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=ENTERTAINMENT&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

his new script,for "tetro" (with matt damon) was stolen from his computer.

maybe it is all for the good,if you think about his work in the late 15 years or so.

rumble fish and apocalypse now are the only good ones

the cotton club seems really bad from the first ten minutes.

Just rewatched Godfathers I and II with my girlfriend who'd never seen them. Probably 7th or 8th viewing for me? Anyhow, things I've always thought of as great have begun to show their age in a bad way : some silly/broad direction and performances (Caan, Brando at the top of I, most everyone around DeNiro in II, ...), pushy use of musical themes or "THE THEME"... plus a few other things. She loved the films. II is still wonderful to me.

i've always chuckled at Sonny's beating of Carlo, where the punches AIN'T EVEN CLOSE.

Cotton Club gets better when Fred Gwynne and Bob Hoskins show up.

i've still to this day after 10 or so viewings, no idea what Micheal means when he says to Carlo "ah that game you played with my sister".. what game? the whole marriage? the big fight with her? still no idea.
IMO I is *hella* complex when you haven't a) read the book or b) seen it before/ for ages.

apocalypse now > godfather imo

no idea what Micheal means when he says to Carlo "ah that game you played with my sister".. what game? the whole marriage? the big fight with her? still no idea.

The last big fight that got Sonny lured into coming over there so he could fall into the ambush at the toll gate.

The whole exchange:

"You fingered Sonny for the Barzini people. Ahhh that little farce you played with my sister--you think that could fool a Corleone?"

so Carlo deliberately beats her up so that Sonny goes after him again? mmhm gotcha. sadists these gangsters man.

"Martin was kind when he said it's not cinema. He didn't say it's despicable, which I just say it is."

https://www.france24.com/en/20191019-coppola-backs-scorsese-in-row-over-marvel-films

FFC otm

Hell yeah.

I'm more into these statements for the fan meltdowns than for the merits of the argument, tbh.

I hope this doesn’t result in comic book fans boycotting his next microbudget art film

he's planning a megabudget epic, i'm not sure funded by whom

try his little-known 1931 debut, "say, what's the big idea?" starring lillian gish, mary pickford and janet gaynor

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, March 7, 2005 2:28 AM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oh if this were only real.

FWIW I've seen Apocalypse Now, The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got Married, and Dracula. I can't remember if I completed Tetro because it was on a scratched-up library DVD.

If IMDB is worth the bandwidth on which it's printed, Coppola is working on something called Megalopolis ("An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster"), starring Jude Law. I can't imagine a picture on this theme being made without the special effects that enable the MCU. Also, that scant information gives me an impression of Deluge meets The Fountainhead.