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Francis Ford Coppola gets personal with his new film

by Moira Macdonald [The Seattle Times (MCT)]

[18.Jun.09] :. SEATTLE — Francis Ford Coppola, at 70, is back where he started. The legendary filmmaker has watched his career rise and fall over the past four decades, from the awards and acclaim for...

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Youth Without Youth

by Matt Mazur

[5.Jun.08] :. "You learn more quickly, more profoundly in dreams" -- the audience becomes a part of the hallucinations.

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Still larger than life, Francis Ford Coppola now thinks smaller

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[25.Jan.08] :. It’s been 10 years since the great Francis Ford Coppola made a movie, 10 years since we’ve read stories about him battling the elements, the studios, the banks, his actors and himself as...

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Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Jan.08] :. It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.

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Lightning strikes Francis Ford Coppola again

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[20.Dec.07] :. Francis Ford Coppola, director of classics, blockbusters, oddities and misfires, has returned to the screen with a metaphysical mystery. Weary of the cumbersome machinery of American feature films,...

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Youth Without Youth

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.07] :. Based on the writings of Mircea Eliade, Francis Ford Coppola's first movie in 10 years is goofy, contrived, and self-absorbed.

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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse

by George Tiller

[19.Dec.07] :. The openness and honesty with which Eleanor Coppola portrays her husband is by far the greatest asset of Hearts of Darkness.

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Bram Stokers Dracula

by Adam Besenyodi

[5.Oct.07] :. Coppola's take on Bram Stoker's masterpiece is a visual stunning feast worth revisiting in a Collector's Edition that is more than just a time capsule.

 

Francis Ford Coppola returns to directing movies

by Mark Caro [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[26.Feb.07] :. While Martin Scorsese is finally poised to win the directing Oscar for an entertainingly efficient piece of genre work (“The Departed”), an even more towering `70s director has returned...

 

Francis Ford Coppola crosses another Rubicon - his own

by Robert K. Elder [Chicago Tribune]

[5.Dec.06] :. RUTHERFORD, Calif.—The Godfather is moving. Or, at least, his desk is. Also on the move: Gary Oldman’s armor from “Dracula,” Robert Duvall’s surfboard from...

 

The Outsiders: The Complete Novel (1983)

by Michael Christopher

[21.Oct.05] :. Rarely does a director's cut reflect a vision 'truer' to a source text. But, like most everything else surrounding the picture, The Outsiders: The Complete Novel is quite an anomaly.

 

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.05] :. Francis Ford Coppola's focus on his family, in the film and his memory, could not be more poignant or more public.

 

Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'Apocalypse Now' -- 'Redux' or regular -- is well worth seeing for just such insights, its flashes of brilliance, failures, and virtuous intentions. In both versions, it's that rare movie that looks hard at the culture that produced it.

 

Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)

by Tobias Peterson

'Apocalypse Now Redux', ultimately, allows us to celebrate a film that has become indelibly ingrained into American popular consciousness while, at the same time, forcing us to question the violence and inhumanity that characterize the troubling past of this same culture.