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Hollywood Is Doomed If There’s No Room for Megalopolises
Francis Ford Coppola self-financed a movie the industry’s bean-counters don’t want. It’s not surprising, but it is depressing.
Earlier this year saw a restoration and rerelease of Coppola’s ill-fated 1982 film, One From the Heart, an extravagantly colorful studio musical that the director sank millions of his own money into and whose critical and commercial failure nearly destroyed his career. In the years since its initial drubbing (which at the time also had private advance screenings that left distributors and exhibitors mystified), it has slowly gained acceptance as one of Coppola’s most special, enchanting films, a visionary work that the culture was just not ready for. But the real question of this most recent chapter of the Francis Ford Coppola saga isn’t about Megalopolis, a movie we’ll be arguing about plenty when it opens.
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