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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 […]
Francis Ford Coppola has released the first teaser trailer for his highly anticipated film Megalopolis, and it gives us our best look yet at the movie and the story...
Francis Ford Coppola shared his thoughts on the current studio system during the Cannes Film Festival press conference for his self-financed epic “Megalopolis,” saying that they might not be around much longer. “I fear that the film industry has become more of a matter of people being hired to meet their debt obligations because the […]
In the long-gestating, career-encompassing allegory that is “Megalopolis,” director Francis Ford Coppola puts his name above the title and, in the film’s lone act of modesty, the words “A Fable” beneath it. To call this garish, idea-bloated monstrosity a mere “fable” is to grossly undersell the project’s expansive insights into art, life and legacy. Here, […]
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
Speaking at Cannes, the director says Megalopolis, his reworking of ancient Rome’s Catiline conspiracy, has become ever more prescientMegalopolis review – Coppola’s passion project is megabloated and megaboringThe US, whose founders tried to emulate the laws and governmental structures of the Roman republic, is headed for a similarly self-inflicted collapse, director Francis Ford Coppola has said at the premiere of his first film in more than a decade.“What’s happening in America, in our...
Francis Ford Coppola knows a little something about not having enough money to make the movie you want. The legendary director notoriously funded his controversial sci-fi epic, Megalopolis, directly from his own pocket (and at the expense of a few of his vineyard holdings). But to hear him tell it, he’s not the only one struggling under the financial burdens of the modern era. “I fear that the film industry has become more of a matter of people being hired to meet their debt obligations...
Francis Ford Coppola isn’t exactly known for being the most cuddly and nurturing guy, especially if those traits would come at the expense of his art. The set of Apocalypse Now was famously so chaotic that it led to a near-fatal heart attack for its star and an entire documentary chronicling the madness of its production—not to mention the real live water buffalo that was slaughtered on camera, and so many other things that would cement it as a classic decades later, but certainly would not have...
Days before Francis Ford Coppola premieres his self-financed epic “Megalopolis” at the Cannes Film Fesstival, The Guardian has published a report on the film’s production in which several crew members detail Coppola’s alleged behavior on set. Several sources told the publication that Coppola was “old school” in his behavior toward women. “He allegedly pulled women […]