On Monday night we had an intimate dinner and wine-tasting with Francis Ford Coppola–you know he’s now the Godfather of oenophilia–and we tried all of his best varietals, except for the 1959 Inglenook, which we were all waiting for but which Mr. Coppola must have lost on the way to the Four Seasons. We were Read More
The lethal combination of Will Smith in the tentpole apocalypse-drama I Am Legend (No. 1), the nasty weather enveloping the Northeast, and nothing good happening on TV (which translates to nothing good saved for weekend DVR watching) created one of the healthiest weekends for Hollywood in some time. In Manhattan, who didn’t go to the Read More
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH
Running Time 124 minutes
Written and directed by Francis Coppola
Starring Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara
Francis Coppola’s Youth Without Youth, from his own screenplay, based on the Romanian novella by Mircea Eliade, was shot entirely in Romania with a Romanian crew. In his director’s statement for the Read More
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH
Running Time 124 minutes
Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring Tim Roth
I’d like to tell you about an indigestible attack of acid reflux called Youth Without Youth, but I couldn’t describe this nightmare under threat of a firing squad. Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in 10 Read More
“They always play The Godfather [theme] when I come down at these things,” said Francis Ford Coppola, looking jovial and scruffy in colorful layers last night at a screening of his new movie Youth Without Youth (opening Dec. 14) at the Paris Theater. “I beg the audience to let me move on, find new ways Read More
Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola is being accused of hypocrisy and “corporation”-like behavior by fellow filmmaker George Hickenlooper (Factory Girl).
For the past four years, Mr. Hickenlooper—who along with his partner, Fax Bahr, wrote and directed the 1991 Emmy-winning authorized documentary Hearts of Darkness, which chronicled the problematic production process of Mr. Coppola’s Apocalypse Read More
George Lucas may be the only moviemaking billionaire I have ever met (if only briefly), at a college campus in Pennsylvania. I happened to be lecturing there, and Francis Ford Coppola was shooting The Rain People (1969). Mr. Lucas just seemed to be hanging around as an apprentice to Mr. Coppola, his quiet, shy manner Read More
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film , by David Thomson. Alfred A. Knopf, 963 pages, $35.
It looks unassuming enough, just like any other reference book: weighty, blockish and solid as a brick. The author, too, sounds foursquare: a couple of film biographies under his belt, now occasionally writes for The New York Times ; Read More
In all the years I’ve been reviewing movies-and my first
published review goes back to 1955-I’ve been attacked more often for my raves
than for my pans. People feel culturally superior to you when they dislike
something you like. Meanwhile, when the shoe is on the other foot, they become
culturally insecure. Still, I’ve learned Read More
On March 18, 2000, The New York Times’ Op-Ed page cheered the Vermont House of Representatives for its approval of legislation giving gays and lesbians the right to form legally recognized unions with “nearly all the benefits and responsibilities of civil marriage.” As one New York-based publicist recently found out, those benefits do not yet Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
