Coppola: Twixt (2011)
Twixt is Francis Ford Coppola’s last film to date, but it barely feels realised as a film – more a strange, stillborn epilogue to his career. While it’s part of the [...]
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Coppola: Tetro (2009)
More than any other big director of New Hollywood, Francis Ford Coppola embodies the pathology of the auteur complex, and the toxic legacy of the auteur myth. Ever since [...]
Coppola: Youth Without Youth (2007)
Since Apocalypse Now, Coppola has gravitated towards frustrated auteurs for his protagonists, and he doubles down on this tendency for his latest three films – a loose [...]
Coppola: The Rainmaker (1997)
The Rainmaker is unique in Francis Ford Coppola’s filmography – he’s made no film quite like it before or since. In part, that’s because it occupies such a unique [...]
Coppola: Jack (1996)
Jack is possibly the strangest film of Coppola’s career – the kind of “children’s” movie that could only have been made in the 1990s, with a borderline creepy [...]
Coppola: Dracula (1992)
Dracula is Francis Ford Coppola’s last genuinely ambitious film to date – a study in grotesque that outdoes every other adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel for sheer [...]
Coppola: The Godfather Part III (1990)
In retrospect, The Godfather Part III plays like a prequel to The Sopranos, so it will be interesting to see whether the series’ own prequel film, Young Tony, will play out [...]
Coppola: Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Francis Ford Coppola closed out the 80s with Tucker: The Man and His Dream, a biopic of Preston Tucker, played by Jeff Bridges, the car designer who tried to take on the Big [...]
Coppola: Gardens of Stone (1987)
Gardens of Stone is probably the least watched of Francis Ford Coppola’s 80s films, but one of the most interesting, since in its own modest way it forms a spiritual sequel [...]
Coppola: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Francis Ford Coppola crafted his most beautiful film of the 1980s with Peggy Sue Got Married, a nostalgic fantasia that sees housewife Peggy Sue Bodell (Kathleen Turner) [...]