All About Eve is one of the most enigmatic and elliptical films of classical Hollywood – a paean to obsessive fandom, and to the allure of the actress, that never quite [...]

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 [...]

Outbreak is a loose adaptation of The Hot Zone, Richard Preston’s 1994 best-seller that brought virus hunters, and the dramatic rise of ebolaviruses, into the popular [...]

Celine Sciamma’s latest film is an extraordinary love story, set at the end of the eighteenth century, on a small island in Brittany, where artist Marianne (Noemie Merlant) [...]

One of the biggest challenges to modern horror films is the streamlining in suburban décor that has taken place in the new millennium. In retrospect, suburban décor peaked [...]