There are no shortage of hagiographies about Saturday Night Live (nee, Saturday Night), which is currently celebrating its 50th season on NBC, including countless books — most famously James…
Scénarios The last image of Jean-Luc Godard’s last film Scénarios is one of the most heartbreaking in his long, storied, notorious, glorious, defining, essential career.…
It has now been seven years since Heinz Emigholz, until 2017 mainly known for his semi-silent architecture films, reintroduced language into his cinema with Streetscapes…
How do you conjure a spectacle as a mere man? Real spectacle, the kind that rivals the infinite colorful vistas of the Northern Lights or…
You might remember the 2019 movie sensation Joker. Todd Phillips, the guy who made the Hangovers, directed an allegedly searing portrait of mental illness, thwarted…
There have been entire documentaries made about screen adaptations of Stephen King’s writing. We’re up to something like 80 or 90 individual movies and shows…
Coming 12 years after the first V/H/S, V/H/S/Beyond continues the well-established formula of the franchise: anthologized, supposedly found footage horror shorts, threaded together with a…
Throughout Nora Fingscheidt’s film The Outrun, we are thoroughly stuck in Rona’s (Saoirse Ronan) head. Fresh out of rehab, Rona has returned to the Orkney…
Foodie television and film is having a bit of a moment, in no small part thanks to The Bear entering the zeitgeist surely, but also…
“What is time except to curve past and present around us?” Cesar Catiina (Adam Driver) asks the January 6-coded throng demanding his Megalopolis be destroyed.…
Twixt (2011) closes the gap between Francis Ford Coppola’s Corman-produced horror debut, Dementia 13 (1963), and his 21st-century excursions into low-budget experimentation, Youth Without Youth…
Before anything else, before any talk of its “uneven narrative” (per the otherwise complimentary Rotten Tomatoes critic’s consensus), it’s worth considering the contours of Francis…
Just as Megalopolis could be seen as a parable about Coppola’s own empire — Zoetrope, circa One from the Heart — Youth Without Youth is…
The Rainmaker may have been a gun-for-hire assignment Francis Ford Coppola did for the paycheck at the height of John Grisham movie mania and during…
Not much is said about the blemishes of an auteur’s career, especially if they prove to be wholly uncharacteristic of its maker’s blueprint. Idiosyncratic in…
Cinema’s obsessions with images are the result of its propensity for their proliferation: although literature tempts the wayward imagination, cinema is what drives it truly…
Sandwiched between the populist comedy of Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) and the lurid fantasia machinery of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1990), Coppola returned…
At age six, Francis Ford Coppola waited for a Tucker Torpedo to arrive in his driveway. His grandfather, Agostino, was among Hollywood’s first generation of…
If every Coppola movie is also a documentary of its making, Gardens of Stone is the most haunted. One year before its release, Francis’s oldest…
The greatest sin a basketball film or TV series can commit is to enlist actors who can’t actually play basketball. More than any other sport,…