Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favourite Criterion Motion pictures & Offers Recommendation to Filmmakers

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Upon step­ping into the hal­lowed Cri­te­ri­on Clos­et, stocked with hun­dreds of that cinephile video label’s most interesting releas­es, Fran­cis Ford Cop­po­la speaks of a direc­tor who “believed in a movie he need­ed to make, and used his complete for­tune, as a result of the financ­ing sys­tem of the time would­n’t finance it. And it got here out…

The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Darkish Claymation Christmas Movie Produced by Francis Ford Coppola (1993)

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Again in 1993, the Beat author William S. Bur­roughs wrote and nar­rat­ed a 21-minute clay­ma­tion Christ­mas movie odd­ly professional­duced by Fran­cis Ford Cop­po­la. And, as you possibly can effectively imag­ine, it’s not your nor­mal hap­py Christ­mas flick. Nope, this movie – The Junky’s Christ­mas – is all about Dan­ny the Automobile­wiper, a junkie, who spends Christ­mas…

The Story of Francis Ford Coppola’s 4-Decade-Battle to Make Megalopolis

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This previous sum­mer, out got here a path­er for Mega­lopo­lis, the film Fran­cis Ford Cop­po­la has spent half of his life attempt­ing to make. It took the daring strategy of open­ing with quotes from evaluations of his pre­vi­ous pic­tures, and never pos­i­tive ones: when it was first launched, Rex Reed referred to as Apoc­a­lypse Now “an…