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...Mona Lisa and A Christmas Carol, but most of the examples that come to mind are movies. Film is the one art that has stayed resolutely popular, and it has done so only in the United States. When American directors get artsy, like Robert Altman or Francis Ford Coppola, they tend to produce meaty, serious movies that, finally, don't grab hold of your imagination. At least, not the way Casablanca or The Wizard...
...Yablans, just-fired head of Paramount, wants to be President of the United States--It Can Happen Here) are essentially businessmen. Every studio but Twentieth Century Fox has been acquired by a conglomerate, and the products show it. You could see it Tuesday night on the show. Francis Ford Coppola, accepting the Best Picture Award for God-father II opened his speech, "When Charlie Bluhdorn came to me with the idea for a second part..." Charlie Bluhdorn. Charlie Bluhdorn of Gulf and Western, baby, Zanuck lost his job at a stockholders meeting...
Unsexy Billy Rose. This week he starts work on Sam Peckinpah's Killer Elite, then he may appear in Francis Ford Coppola's The Apocalypse. It is only three years since he appeared in the sleeper Brian's Song and then exploded with the intensity of a young Jimmy Cagney to become a star in The Godfather. Now, after Cinderella Liberty, The Gambler, Funny Lady and the upcoming sci-fi drama Rollerball, he is one of the five top box office draws in the country...
...WOMAN UNDER THE Influence is a kind of inverted Godfather II. Coppola's film is recognized as socially-relevant because it treats real, albeit distant, issues, while in Woman, the anxiety and boredom of housewifery is close to home but often surrealistically overstated. Mabel waits for the schoolbus to return with her kids, pacing like an anxious speed freak, demanding passersby to give her the time, and chasing after them when they try to ignore her. At a party she gives for her own children, she stampedes them into a performance of Swan Lake and supervises their deaths...
...Coppola's view, Vito becomes a mafioso partly by accident and partly out of revenge for his family's destruction. But his film is not a study of the origins of the underworld. It doesn't tell us much about the underworld's organization, either, or about the bases of its power in a corrupt system, in a country whose basic premises of economic exploitation pass naturally, without a whimper, from the barely legal to the outright illegal. The Godfather II is like dynastic history--full of human interest, good gossip, and referring in passing to more important, underlying historical...