What Coppola pulls off in THE GODFATHER (1972) is that the baptism stops being a sacrament and becomes Michael's last step into who he is. He's renouncing Satan on one side of the cut while a coordinated bloodbath runs…
The Godfather baptism montage
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Francis Ford Coppola, born April 7, 1939, in Detroit, is an American filmmaker who helped shape the New Hollywood movement.
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The pen prank is what gets me every time. Tony Cox was telling how Michael, in character as Hooter on Captain EO, kept wandering over mid-improv, cracking up and riffing with him, which somehow kept putting Tony on the…
Tony Cox on Michael Jackson Captain EO stories
Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is getting a theatrical re-release per Deadline
Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS is back in theaters on October 24, and this time there's a livestreamed Q&A with the director attached to the screening. The twist: audience members can text in questions before the…
MEGALOPOLIS (2024) is Francis Ford Coppola going all in, no limits, no restraints. That's cinema.
Megalopolis Francis Ford Coppola 2024
Francis Ford Coppola made the casting list for THE GODFATHER in 1972.
Forty years of Captain EO, and the numbers behind it still surprise me. That $23 million budget put it among the priciest short films anyone had made at the time, and this was a 3D short that ran under 17 minutes. It…
Captain EO 40th anniversary
There's a moment in THE GODFATHER where you're right there with Michael, feeling his nerves crank up. Coppola uses the sound of an elevated train to mirror that panic, and the noise builds until it hits a peak right as…
The Godfather restaurant scene analysis
For APOCALYPSE NOW in 1979, the plan was for Marlon Brando to look gaunt and nearly skeletal as Colonel Kurtz. He arrived at filming significantly overweight though. Director Francis Ford Coppola largely kept Brando in…
Marlon Brando Colonel Kurtz APOCALYPSE NOW
Shia LaBeouf and Francis Ford Coppola are clashing on Megalopolis (2024).
Shia LaBeouf Francis Ford Coppola Megalopolis
Harrison Ford recalled being discovered by George Lucas while working as a carpenter. He was installing doors for Francis Ford Coppola as a favor to his art director when Lucas cast him as Han Solo. Ford said he agreed…
Harrison Ford Han Solo discovery story
What makes Michael Corleone truly terrifying is the stillness that settles over him. By the closing scenes of Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 masterpiece, Al Pacino's performance no longer requires shouting or brandishing a…
Michael Corleone The Godfather stillness
When Marlon Brando showed up to shoot 'Apocalypse Now' (1979), he was nowhere near the physical shape Francis Ford Coppola had in mind for Colonel Kurtz. But in the end, it didn't matter , Brando still turned in one of…
Marlon Brando Apocalypse Now
