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 [...]

Apocalypse Now is one of the most ambitious films ever made, but that’s been both a blessing and a curse to Francis Ford Coppola, whose entire subsequent career has been [...]

I read a tweet recently that made a provocative suggestion: instead of talking about the world ending, we should act as if the world has already ended, and start rebuilding [...]

Apocalypse Now is one of the most spectacular films ever made, but also one of the most open and provisional in its structure. Ever since it was released, Coppola has [...]

Throughout the 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola had been building towards a new threshold of film spectacle – and he found it in Apocalypse Now, one of the greatest war films [...]

The Godfather Part II may well be the most ambitious film ever made about the Italian-American twentieth century. Picking up where The Godfather left off, one half of the [...]

Over the last twenty years, Edward Norton has gained a reputation for being a perfectionist and an aesthete, often insisting on creative control and occasionally doing major [...]

Sometimes the escalation of the #MeToo movement, and the greater visibility around abuse, can just make misogyny feel even more intractable in the present moment. That [...]

The Conversation can sometimes be a little dwarfed by coming between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, but it’s easily one of Francis Ford Coppola’s very best [...]