Features
Friday, August 5 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 2: Robert Bresson to David Cronenberg
Our second day of "100 Essential Directors" could loosely be described as one that defines "influential." Each of the auteurs sandwiched in between Robert Bresson and David Cronenberg has left a lasting mark on cinema, each employing a signature style that is unmistakable.
Thursday, June 23 2011
Obsession As the Driver Behind the Road Movie
Since Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the notion of hitting the road to "anywhere but here" speaks to us not of grand rolling landscapes, but of an emergence into a truer, freer, state of being than our everyday routines allow.
Monday, October 11 2010
A Giant Shadow: The Continuing Influence of Akira Kurosawa on World Cinema
Today it is impossible to imagine a world without the films of Akira Kurosawa. He is easily regarded as one of the very greatest directors in the history of film, having made a host of first tier masterpieces.
Columns
Friday, December 10 2010
Sex & Death & Rock 'n' Roll or, The Kids Weren't Alright
Three turn-of-the-'70s movies, freshly available through Warner Archives, give us distorted reflections of a moment when peace, love and the "youth movement" became linked with murder in the popular imagination.
Reviews
Tuesday, May 11 2010
Gorgeous Black-and-White Images Give Tetro a Classic, Timeless Look
Aside from the beauty of the black-and-white images, the greatest appeal of Tetro is the way director Francis Ford Coppola plays with his storytelling, incorporating a love for all forms of art.
Thursday, June 5 2008
Youth Without Youth
"You learn more quickly, more profoundly in dreams" -- the audience becomes a part of the hallucinations.
Wednesday, December 19 2007
Youth Without Youth
Based on the writings of Mircea Eliade, Francis Ford Coppola's first movie in 10 years is goofy, contrived, and self-absorbed.
Friday, October 5 2007
Bram Stokers Dracula
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.
Friday, October 21 2005
The Outsiders: The Complete Novel (1983)
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.
Blogs
Friday, August 12 2011
100 Essential Directors - Francis Ford Coppola
100 Essential Directors celebrates directors of distinct vision, who have honed their respective crafts, who have brought something new and exciting to the medium, and who continue to push the boundaries of the form.
Tuesday, September 7 2010
Coppola's 'The Conversation': A Love Letter to the Process of Making Art
The Conversation is a tour de force, but it’s a quiet tour de force. In fact, it is just about impossible to imagine a movie like this being made today.
News
Thursday, June 18 2009
Francis Ford Coppola gets personal with his new film
SEATTLE — Francis Ford Coppola, at 70, is back where he started. The legendary filmmaker has watched his career rise and fall over the past…
Friday, January 25 2008
Still larger than life, Francis Ford Coppola now thinks smaller
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…
Thursday, December 20 2007
Lightning strikes Francis Ford Coppola again
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…
Monday, February 26 2007
Francis Ford Coppola returns to directing movies
Francis Ford Coppola While Martin Scorsese is finally poised to win the directing Oscar for an entertainingly efficient piece of genre work ("The Departed"), an…
Tuesday, December 5 2006
Francis Ford Coppola crosses another Rubicon - his own
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…
