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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]