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...While Pearl Harbor, with its Memorial Day kickoff, is clearly the war movie for the summer, at the opposite end of the war holiday schedule is something equally compelling for cinephiles. While Francis Ford Coppola hasn't directed a movie since 1997, in recent months, he's been revising his 1979 Vietnam War epic, Apocalypse Now. The film has already achieved legendary status in the cinematic community, but Coppola saw fit to entirely re-edit the film and add 53 minutes worth of footage, which now clocks in at a whopping 3 1/4 hours. The original tale where Captain Willard...
...journey up the Mekong into the jungled heart of Southeast Asia has had a hold on popular imagination since Martin Sheen's nightmarish voyage in Apocalypse Now. Francis Ford Coppola's film, shot in the Philippines, probably did as much to inform armchair experience of the Vietnam War and its virgin forest battlegrounds as any travel brochure. But recreating Captain Willard's mythical journey has been impossible for decades due to civil war in Mekong and tourist restrictions in communist Laos. Until now. Although not yet officially announced, the Mekong border crossing has been reopened to foreigners, allowing river travel...
...Replace with: The Virgin Suicides Sofia Coppola's underrated directorial debut is a gleaming golden fairy tale of its own, complete with sleeping beauties, prince charming and indefatigable optimism. Kirsten Dunst is lovely as a rebellious daughter in a suffocatingly close-knit suburban family...
...actress. Earlier this year she dared to bare all on the London stage in The Graduate and was lavishly praised for her acting form, as well as for her physical form, apparently still in fine shape at age 45. Turner also appeared in The Virgin Suicides, a Sofia Coppola film, as the mother of five suicidal daughters. This fall Turner can be seen at the Colonial Theatre in Boston in Tallulah, based on the life of one Tallulah Bankhead, an actress from the '30s whose list of flop films was exceeded only by the ranks of her lovers...
Writing a screenplay will do strange things to a man. FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA was in the middle of one when it struck him it was time to do musical theater. Inspired by Gidget, the novel about a 14-year-old girl who wants to surf, Coppola co-wrote the book for a musical and 12 original songs. Then he approached the Orange County High School for the Performing Arts in Cerritos, Calif., with a plan to workshop his play using teen performers. "I was a drama counselor in summer camp when I was young," says Coppola. "I like to work...