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...daring, most distinctive filmmaker and one of its signature eccentrics does not automatically endear Herzog to Hollywood. Though estimable actors from Claudia Cardinale to Tim Roth have graced his films and though in the late '70s he had a project (Fitzcarraldo) that was to be produced by Francis Ford Coppola and star Jack Nicholson, Herzog knows that in the U.S. the big-money guys are as averse to risk as he is addicted...
...know Roger at the Cannes Film Festival in 1979, when he got us onto the yacht of Lew Grade, the Lord (literally; he'd been knighted) of ITV, and brought us into star-studded cocktail hours at Cannes' posh Majestic Bar; in one conversation about Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, the smartest comments were made by actor James Woods. ("MIT grad," Roger whispered knowingly.) In between the partying, he managed to keep sending pieces, mostly interviews, back to the Sun-Times. That Cannes, he said, he saw seven movies and wrote 11 columns. And naturally he wrote a book...
...know people who hated Jack Valenti, or rather hated the ratings system he created and sustained. Kirby Dick's documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated makes a good case for the prejudice the MPAA showed in favor of major-studio product and against the more adventurous indies. Francis Coppola once said that all of modern cinema, from art films to blockbusters, uses only about 5% of the medium's potential artistic vocabulary. We may need another revolution - not of content but of the means of distribution - to allow filmmakers to explore the other...
...aura of sexuality, in films by the current generation of pop-referencing auteurs. They swarm all over the violence in '60s-'70s grindhouse movies but are squeamish in showing the eroticism that once was crucial to the genre. The generation of "kids with beards," as Billy Wilder called Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese, took their cues from a wide range of movie sources - Saturday-matinee serials, John Cassavetes improv dramas, European angst-athons - and if they got excessive, it was in kitsch and violence, not sex. Rodriguez got some puffs of grindhouse steam going...
...genre of their own by dusting off the synthesizers discarded after the 1980’s and putting them to mellow use. Their first full album, “Moon Safari,” rose to number six on the British music charts and caught the eye of writer/director Coppola, who had the group score her entire 2000 film, “The Virgin Suicides.” The group has since grown in popularity with the continued support of Coppola’s films (“Lost in Translation,” “Marie Antoinette?...