Marlon Brando’s performance as Don Vito Corleone in “The Godfather” is one of the best remembered in film history. The part won Brando his second Academy Award for Best Actor (an honor he declined). The film’s opening, where Don allows the people of the neighborhood to ask him for favors on the day of his […]
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‘The Beguiled’ Director Sofia Coppola on Making Gothic Drama and Avoiding the Original [Interview]
With The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola has made her first adaptation and remake. The filmmaker’s retelling has little in common with Don Siegel’s 1971 film, though. Coppola was more interested in adapting Thomas P. Cullinan‘s A Painted Veil than remaking Siegel’s movie, which features a drastically different depiction of the all-girls school, led by Miss Martha (Nicole Kidman), and […]
Sofia Coppola Wanted to Make ‘The Little Mermaid’ a Dark Fairy Tale
Nobody wants to see a Sofia Coppola movie influenced by a committee, including Sofia Coppola. The filmmaker behind Lost in Translation and this week’s The Beguiled was going to make her biggest movie yet with The Little Mermaid, but she exited the project once she realized her vision wasn’t going to go untouched by Universal. “We didn’t agree creatively about how […]
Cannes 2017: Sofia Coppola Wins Best Director, ‘The Square’ Wins Palme d’Or
The big winners from this year’s Cannes Film Festival have been announced. The prestigious Palme d’Or went to Ruben Östlund for his new film The Square, starring Elisabeth Moss. The movie is a followup to Östlund’s Force Majeure, which won the festival’s Jury Prize in 2014. From Indiewire: Technically, The Square was inspired by a […]
‘Apocalypse Now’ Video Game Is In The Works, Francis Ford Coppola Offers Advanced Purchase Via Kickstarter
Almost 40 years after the release of Francis Ford Coppola’s legendary Apocalypse Now, fans are going to get to experience the action from their own perspective for the first time as Coppola’s American Zoetrope production company looks to release a video game based on the film. Do not get too excited just yet: The game […]
Francis Ford Coppola Uses Kickstarter To Fund ‘Apocalypse Now’ Video Game
Francis Ford Coppola has plans to turn his classic 1979 Vietnam war film Apocalypse Now into a video game. The award-winning director needs to raise funds to complete the project, though, so he has turned to Kickstarter with a goal of raising $ 900,000 for the project. The Apocalypse Now video game project will only […]
Francis Ford Coppola Uses Kickstarter To Fund ‘Apocalypse Now’ Video Game
Francis Ford Coppola has plans to turn his classic 1979 Vietnam war film Apocalypse Now into a video game. The award-winning director needs to raise funds in order to complete the project, though, so he has turned to Kickstarter with a goal of raising $ 900,000 for the project. The Apocalypse Now video game project […]