Tag: Francis Ford Coppola
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How Often Does Francis Ford Coppola Think About the Roman Empire? ‘Quite a Lot,’ Says Director: It ‘Was the Inspiration’ for ‘Megalopolis’
Francis Ford Coppola is joining the Roman Empire TikTok trend by asking himself the viral question: “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?”“How often do I think of Ancient Rome? Quite a lot, as the Roman Republic served as the example for my country America and its institutions, and was the inspiration for…
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Gene Hackman Almost Directed and Starred in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’
Gene Hackman is one of those actors who feels like they’ve lived nine lives (or careers). He was one of the most employed and accomplished actors of the ’70s and ’80s. In particular, Hackman was known for his work in the Best Picture winner The French Connection (for which he won the Best Actor Oscar),…
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Sofia Coppola’s Favorite Movies: 18 Films the ‘Lost in Translation’ Director Wants You to See
She may have had it easy getting her foot in the door, but it’s hard to deny Sofia Coppola began her directing career in an unenviable position.When she made her first film “The Virgin Suicides” in 1999, Coppola was known for two things: being the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, one of the most esteemed…
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10 Great Underrated Gangster Movies, According to Reddit
During the 1930s, Hollywood took notice of the rising popularity of pulp fiction and detective novels was established by classics such as The Public Enemy and Little Caesar. During the New Hollywood Movement, the genre was redefined by Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece, The Godfather, and by the 1990s, movies like Goodfellas, Casino, and Bugsy had…
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This Legendary Western Director Could Have Directed ‘The Godfather’
In the early stages of one’s emergence as a cinephile, you are aware of The Godfather‘s shining prestigiousness. You are informed that it is one of the finest films ever put to celluloid. Impressively, after all the pomp and circumstance surrounding its legacy, the film lives up to the fanfare. The performances by Marlon Brando,…
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One of the Best Crime Movies Came From a Legendary Comedy Director
The directors associated with some of the greatest crime movies of all time are an easy group of names to rattle off, with Francis Ford Coppola giving us the timeless epic that is The Godfather, or the many crime masterpieces of directors such as Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Quentin Tarantino, and the Coen Brothers. However,…
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Robert Zemeckis’ Debut Feature Film Gave Us a New Take on Beatlemania
In the 1970s, an ambitious band of young directors that included Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and the late William Friedkin defined the New Hollywood with their idiosyncratic vision that rebelled against the safe and predictable norms of the studio system. Their films were often in response, at least in metaphorical terms, to the zeitgeist,…
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Francis Ford Coppola’s Favorite Film That He Directed Isn’t What You Think
The masterpieces of legendary New Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola prove almost too many to count on one hand between The Godfather, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now, but fans of the director’s titanic oeuvre will be surprised to know that his favorite film of his isn’t any of the aforementioned, but his 1983 adaptation of…
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Will There Be a ‘Dracula Untold 2’?
While it seems like audiences are inundated with a new incarnation of Spider-Man or Batman nearly every year, there have been countless depictions of Bram Stoker’s iconic gothic vampire Dracula on the big screen. There are certainly quite a few genuine classics of the horror genre that have featured the character; F.W. Murnau’s 1922 masterwork…
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George Lucas Partially Based Han Solo on This Famous Director
It’s no secret that Star Wars is a huge boiling cauldron of influences that George Lucas dosed together to create something new, original, and fresh. From the Samurai movies of Akira Kurosawa to the legendary structure devised by Joseph Campbell, nearly all of it has been extensively analyzed and explained – but not everything! One…