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…
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…
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…
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…
Girl meets boy. Boy meets girl. Love blossoms. Reality sets in. The pandemic hits. They grow apart while remaining tethered to each other in…
As a filmmaking duo, directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have left a lasting impression in carving out their own little niche of low-fi…
Director Alexandre Aja’s latest film, Never Let Go, occupies a deliberately liminal space. Its threadbare plot suggests a post-apocalyptic near future, but its central…
All We Imagine As Light “This city takes time away from you,” says one of the seven disembodied voices introducing us to the wide-awake-at-night…
As successful as Coppola was in the 1970s, with four consecutive films garnering massive critical and/or box office success, the 1980s proved to be…
In a way, it’s odd that Coppola decided that The Cotton Club required a concluding fantasy sequence. Yes, as a movie musical, The Cotton…
In 1982, Francis Ford Coppola briefly made dramatizing the works of young adult author S.E. Hinton his entire personality. Licking his wounds in the…
The Outsiders is one of the few — possibly the only — entries in Francis Ford Coppola’s oeuvre that is widely considered a cult…
In many ways, road trips are the perfect vehicle for self-discovery — both in life and in cinema. Removed from the distractions and routines…
One of the more amazing things about returning to Rosemary’s Baby after its release decades ago, or even watching it for the first time…
It can often be difficult to evaluate the work of a director who is branching out from their niche. With Jon Bois, he has…
“You know what’s wrong with America, don’t you? It’s the light,” Hank rants to his buddy. “It’s all tinsel, it’s all phony bullshit, man.…
Once upon a time, the great François Truffaut said, “There’s no such thing as an anti-war film.” The details of when he said this,…
Who’s a Fredo? The Godfather Part II Against the New Right 1. In what amounts to the coda of The Godfather Part II, the…