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...Kurosawa is amused by the diligence of historians who assemble the complete Japanese versions of films that the director wanted Western audiences to see in a shorter, faster-paced form. He is now at work streamlining his latest film, The Shadow Warrior, in consultation with his executive producers: Francis Coppola and George Lucas...
They are a good choice for chopping. As Young Turks rising to the status of Hollywood pashas, they upset many of the old rules-including the precept that a finished film really is finished. Coppola sutured his two Godfather films, along with an hour of outtakes, into a four-night NBC extravaganza, and last year he previewed several versions of Apocalypse Now before deciding which one he wanted-for now. Lucas rereleased American Graffiti with additional footage. Still, Coppola and Lucas are hardly the only directors to have joined the emerging slice-and-splice school: Stanley Kubrick cut 19 minutes...
BORN. To Talia Shire, 34, actress who specializes in Roman numeral movies, having played roles in Rocky I and II and in her brother Francis Coppola's Godfather I and II, and Jack Schwartzman, 45, executive vice president of Lorimar Productions: a boy, her second child, his third; in Los Angeles. Name: Jason Francesco...
Alberto Moravia, Italian author (Time of Desecration) and sometime film critic: "I did not like The Godfather. Too pessimistic. And Coppola's next film, Apocalypse Now, was even worse. Marlon Brando was a cross between Benito Mussolini and a big piece of cheese...
Godfather I and II (1972, 1974). Francis Ford Coppola's phenomenal one-two punch. Crime melodrama first as family saga, then as historical epic...