The Cotton Club was Francis Ford Coppola’s biggest shot at a blockbuster during the 80s, and remains his most concerted effort to replicate the stately scale and scope of [...]

Francis Ford Coppola’s populist and auteurist impulses diverged dramatically in the wake of Apocalypse Now. After trying to outdo his magnum opus with One From the Heart, [...]

In many ways, the second half of Francis Ford Coppola’s career has been haunted by the spectre of Apocalypse Now. Since he could never hope to replicate the scale of [...]