Jordan Cole
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Twixt was shocking to me. I have seen some poor films from directors I like. Some really bad ones too. I had never seen somebody go from The Godfather to something like Twixt.
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Twixt was shocking to me. I have seen some poor films from directors I like. Some really bad ones too. I had never seen somebody go from The Godfather to something like Twixt.
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That really doesn't sound promising... I'll have to see it myself, but, umm, yeah.
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I usually get pelters for this opinion but I genuinely think he's probably the best actor working today.
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I wouldn't necessarily say the best, but certainly one of the best. He has a certain charisma, his presence is always felt whenever he's on screen, and he keeps working with great directors like Noah Baumbach, the Coen brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam, Leos Carax, Michael Mann etc., and now Francis Ford Coppola.
I always assume that he's generally held in high regard.
Cappy
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I once heard a crazy story about Francis Ford Coppola — apparently he filmed the Outsiders twice, once on VHS, then a second time on film. I assume the first was an extended rehearsal? I can’t find this anecdote online, and I was beginning to doubt its veracity… but maybe it’s kind of mild mannered compared to FFC putting $100 mill of his own money into Megalopolis.
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I haven't seen Twixt or Tetro but I liked Youth Without Youth well enough
Dom
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It's feasible he could have shot video simultaneously to the film in order to knock together a rough cut of material at the end of the day to see if it's coming together all right. Coppola's non-Hollywood way of filmmaking would often involve practices you'd normally expect on a low budget or student film.
Bear in mind, no one has said whether the $100 million+ Megalopolis budget includes the decades' worth of development costs, including the stuff I mentioned Storaro was working on in the 1980s and 1990s. So the budget might not be purely the film as shot. I imagine that if a Hollywood studio had made the film, the budget would have been more like $500 million!!
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Bit of an aside I suppose, but Tommy Wiseau shot The Room on film and digital at the same time.
I LOVE Twixt! Unironically and yet with self-awareness, much like the film itself. Val Kilmer is hilarious, the movie is like some lost throwaway Stephen King riff, and it's 100% independent. It's also a 3D experiment, but I believe Germany is the only country to release it on disc with the 3D sequences. It simply exists outside the realm of good or bad for me. It's a real headscratcher, beautiful in its own digital way with an atmosphere all its own, silly beyond a shadow of a doubt. I've seen it at least five times and own three different editions of it...including Coppola's latest redux.
Tetro is certainly good, and I think Youth Without Youth is one of the more underrated films of the century. Godfather Part III is of course a good movie, too. I'm with @Stavrogyn in that Megalopolis is my most anticipated film of the year if for no other reason than that it exists.
Also, I believe there is something to the claim that Shia LaBeouf is a great actor. He is certainly a fascinating character. Just a real wild piece of work. Also, @AXX°N N. LaBeouf is perfect and wonderful in Nymphomaniac, no matter the intersecting reasons!
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Perusing Metacritic...they seem pretty good to me! Mixed, but that's expected. I love a nicely ambitious film that polarizes viewers.
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Maybe I got unlucky and read three negatives ones in a row. I’m looking out for more as they come.
Oh, there's some negatives all right and there's bound to be a lot more! I just want to see the damn thing.
Cappy
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My feelings about Francis Ford Coppola kind of mirror my feelings about John Carpenter. Both created, in my opinion, two ultra-perfect movies (Godfather 1 and 2 for FFC, Halloween and The Thing for JC), so I’ll always give them the benefit of the doubt and (almost always) check out their other projects, even if they rarely live up to their respective masterpieces.
Dom
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The point with Carpenter and Coppola is that both gentlemen like to try different types of films, different genres, shot in different ways. They're really the last two 1970s directors still making their own path in the USA. Brian De Palma works in Europe (as does Woody Allen) while Martin Scorsese, for example, survives on a 'one for them, one for me' system.
Dom
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Daily Telegraph review.
Megalopolis: Coppola’s latest is like Succession crossed with Batman Forever and a lava lamp
Aubrey Plaza is fantastic in this full-body sensory bath movie which follows a struggle for power among the elites of New Rome
4 stars out of 5Robbie Collin, Film Critic16 May 2024 • 8:30pm
“It took Francis Ford Coppola 40 years to make Megalopolis, and while stumbling out of its first screening at Cannes yesterday I felt like it might take me a further 40 to work out what it is."
The review is positive.
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Dom
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Sorry, I thought if I pasted the link that would be all right. I'll remove it.
Modified and used a better link so the article can be read in full.
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MasterMastermnd
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Everything people are saying about Megalopolis makes me want to watch it. Big FWWM and Southland Tales vibes. I really hope it gets a decent release.
Also, my girlfriend and I caught The People's Joker in theaters last night. Cannot say enough good things about this film. It's funny, earnest, smart, and writer/director/star Vera Drew is possessed with a true spirit of wonder, love for cinema, and a can-do attitude that makes this movie such a joy to watch. My movie of the year so far.
Also, my girlfriend and I caught The People's Joker in theaters last night. Cannot say enough good things about this film. It's funny, earnest, smart, and writer/director/star Vera Drew is possessed with a true spirit of wonder, love for cinema, and a can-do attitude that makes this movie such a joy to watch. My movie of the year so far.
Dom
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I have a feeling it might end up with some sort of 'roadshow' release. I can imagine local distributors in Europe will pick it up in individual countries. It has the look of something that might do well in Japan. It's the US where it really needs a big distributor and might struggle...
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