Word: coppolas
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This is not, putting it mildly, a fun premise. Indeed, the screenwriters (James DeMonaco and Gary Nadeau) and the director (Francis Ford Coppola, no less) consider it to be a philosophical premise, an occasion to wax pseudo-wise about life's brevity and the need to live it to the fullest while we're still here. There are also several demonstrations of why it is not nice to make fun of people who are different from...
Cannes has been selling flesh and fantasy for a half-century now. In the 22 feature films competing for the 1996 Palme d'Or, to be awarded early this week by a 10-member jury headed by director Francis Ford Coppola, the flesh was on ample display (and with male nudity for once more evident than female, this was the Festival of Many Penises). But the fantasy this year was darker, more disturbing. One of the prime Palme d'Or contenders, Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves, is a tale of religious and romantic belief, a kind of Song...
...asking price has soared, so has his involvement. Grisham had approval of script, director and cast during the making of A Time to Kill (while grumping about Universal's unapproved adaptation of The Chamber, due this fall). He is co-writing the screenplay for The Rainmaker with director Francis Coppola. By the time Grisham finishes his eighth novel, he could call it Showgirls II and still name his terms...
...point is that, '70s or '90s, nothing changes for the black underclass. And in Michael Henry Brown's screenplay, nothing much is added to earlier work in these fields by Francis Coppola and Oliver Stone. Yet Dead Presidents is well worth watching for the Hugheses' prodigal camera finesse. In some of their elaborate tracking shots (at a prom-night party, over a series of backyard fences), you get a hint that their art could mature quickly. Cinema needs the Hugheses at their best--which is yet to come...
When FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA went looking for a summer house 20 years ago, he ended up moving his family to the Napa Valley and starting a wine business. Now he has coughed up more than $9 million for the place next door and reunited the historic Inglenook estate. "Winemaking is like movies," he says. "You start with material that's not 100% in your control; then you refine what you get." The vintner is also enjoying a good year onscreen: he produced the just released Don Juan DeMarco and My Family, which opens next month, and later this year...