Rumble Fish (1983)
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The scene at the beginning of the 1979 classic Apocalypse Now, with Martin Sheen’s Captain Willard alone in his hotel room, was completely unscripted. Sheen told the shooting crew to just let the cameras roll. The actor was actually drunk in the scene and punched the mirror, which was real glass. Sheen also began sobbing and tried to attack director Francis Ford Coppola. The crew was so disturbed by his actions that they wanted to stop shooting, but Coppola wanted to keep the cameras going (x).
New Films Seen in 2013 (197/365)
One of those great but frustrating films based on a true story where you are forced to watch the little guys get torn down by the big ones.
7/10
New Films Seen in 2013 (54/365)
This film, like a lot of Coppola's work is equal parts beautiful/mess. Cut a good half hour and commit to either being a musical or gangster film with just a few numbers and it could have been really solid. 6.5/10
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"What the studios want now is "risk-free" films but with any sort of art you have to take risks. Not taking risks in art is like not having sex and then expecting there to be children." Francis Ford Coppola
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Winona Ryder and Francis Ford Coppola during the filming of Dracula in 1992
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"I think cinema, movies and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made films were magicians." - Francis Ford Coppola
On Monday I went to a screening of Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt. The story follows Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer), a “bargain basement Stephen King” on a middle-of-nowhere book signing tour who is propositioned by the Sheriff (Bruce Dern) into sticking around and possibly collaborating on a local mystery. That night, Hall is visited by the ghost of a young girl (Elle Fanning) who drags him deeper into the towns dark past and forces him to face his own dark secrets. Apparently this story came to Coppola in a dream, which I don’t doubt at all given the overall mess of the film. While I enjoyed the use of color and found Val Kilmer and Elle Fanning to be perfect for their roles those are about the only positive things I can say. The most laughable (truly, the entire audience let out a chuckle) element had to be the random, pointless use of 3D which the audience was informed of by a large pair of 3D glasses appearing on the screen at the moment of use. While Coppola is claiming this to be a new interactive way to view film this wasn’t the case, at TIFF at least so I can’t speak of how it will turn out when he actually does do his tinkering with it. Either way, this is one I’d skip.
Michael Jackson, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, Captain Eno (1986)
What a bizarre trio... Though any trio becomes bizarre if Michael Jackson is one of them...