Francis Ford Coppola had been on hiatus for a while, but there’s no denying his is one of the OG auteur directors with films like The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Now Coppola is ready to make his return to the big screen with the star-studded Megalopolis, and
Actor Adam Driver players an architect who can control time in the first peek at Francis Ford Coppola's upcoming, self-funded film, "Megalopolis."In the teaser, Driver's character Cesar Catilina can be seen making his way to the edge of a skyscraper. Just when he is about to step off, he shouts "time stop," and all the cars below him seemingly pause at his command. It is only then that he leans back, appearing to not jump. Coppola's film is set to release at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17....
Ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this Thursday, Francis Ford Coppola has shared the first official trailer for his self-funded passion project Megalopolis. The legendary Godfather director calls the ambitious epic “the best work I’ve ever had the privilege to preside over” and has enlisted a huge ensemble to […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post here: Megalopolis...
Today, Francis Ford Coppola will at last unveil Megalopolis—the legendary director's years-in-the-making epic, in which he's invested over $100 million of his own money—at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. It is Coppola's first film to premiere in competition at the festival since 1979's Apocalypse Now, which earned him his second Palme d'Or award. All eyes will be on Megalopolis as it endeavors to find a distributor and pay off its filmmaker's extraordinary bet on himself. But perhaps most...
We saw Adam Driver stop time in the first look Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, but that hasn’t prepared audiences for just how visually dazzling the film is aiming to be. Just in, Coppola has dropped the first proper trailer for his passion project, and it’s chockfull of all kinds of
Coppola’s passion project screens at Cannes film festival to seven-minute standing ovation, but reviews have been polarisingAfter 40 years in the making, Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project Megalopolis has finally premiered at Cannes film festival – to polarising reviews that have variously called the film “staggeringly ambitious”, “absolute madness”, and “bafflingly shallow”.Megalopolis, which screened at Cannes on Thursday night to a seven-minute standing ovation, was once considered a pipe...
‘The Godfather’ director’s new dystopian drama has divided critics
The legendary filmmaker, 85, last had a film in competition at the fest 45 years ago — 'Apocalypse Now,' for which he was awarded the Palme d'Or for the second time, five years after 'The Conversation' won it.
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags ‘My greatest fear is to make a really shitty, embarrassing, pompous film on an important subject, and I am doing it,” Francis Ford
The director has spent half his life and $120m of his own money to make his sci-fi epic. Just days ahead of its debut in Cannes, some of his crew members are questioning his methods‘My greatest fear is to make a really shitty, embarrassing, pompous film on an important subject, and I am doing it,” Francis Ford Coppola said in 1978. “I will tell you right straight from the most sincere depths of my heart, the film will not be good.” The film was Apocalypse Now, and it was good, and the rest is...
Director’s $120m self-funded dystopian epic has faced a mixed reception
When Francis Ford Coppola arrived in Cannes in 1979 to premiere an unfinished version of “Apocalypse Now,” he had endured a gauntlet of bad press. His Vietnam saga’s budget kept ballooning, forcing Coppola to offer his car, his home, even the profits from “The Godfather” as collateral to cover overages. The production was biblically plagued […]