What about... CAPTAIN EO !And yeah, pretty amazing the quality drop post Apocalypse Now (although I do like Cotton Club).
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 10:49 (six years ago) link
As if a great artist like... Stevie Wonder had released only/mostly crap after Songs in The Key of Life !
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 10:51 (six years ago) link
pretty amazing the quality drop 2/3 of the way thru Apocalypse Now
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 11:38 (six years ago) link
I forgot where I read it, but FFC became obsessed with his children's interests (S.E. Hinton books) but then lost his eldest son in a tragic boating accident and never quite recovered from that.― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, January 6, 2017 6:13 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, January 6, 2017 6:13 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Has anyone here seen Twixt? Horror movie that came out a couple months after this poll. Apparently it addresses the guilt he feels over the accident. From wiki:
Hall realizes that his writer's block is the result of a form of guilt over his daughter's death in a boating accident, as he had been too drunk to accompany her that morning.
― how's life, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link
Critical reception for Twixt has been predominantly negative and the film currently holds a rating of 29% "rotten" on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based upon 17 reviews. Reviewers have criticized the film for being "flimsy" and "unwatchable". French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma placed it as the third best film of 2012.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 12:02 (six years ago) link
Noticed a weird flex on tonight's Nightline: The 'Top 5' was the highest grossing J.Lo movies, and JACK was #5 at $58 Mil. Figuring that couldn't be right, I check Box Office Mojo, who report that Jack is in fact her 9th biggest film (not adjusted for inflation BTW) and was distributed by Buena Vista, a subsidiary of ABC's parent company, Disney.
Also: $58 MILLION?!?
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 September 2019 04:57 (four years ago) link
that was right after Birdcage and Jumanji, so Robin Williams could open a movie til word of mouth got around.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 September 2019 05:22 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I think this was where his momentum began to slow. Father's Day w/Crystal was the next year, and kind of a cinematic New Jersey.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 September 2019 06:17 (four years ago) link
I remember seeing BILLBOARDS for Jack that summer.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 September 2019 06:19 (four years ago) link
I should really give Tucker a rescreen j/k
― fremmes with neppavenettes (rip van wanko), Saturday, 14 September 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
it's very good
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 September 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
Not to keep harping on Jack, but owing to only catching bits and pieces on TV, I somehow missed that Bill Cosby's one of the supporting players.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 September 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
Jack debuted at #1. Robin Williams was yuuuge through 1998-2000. Even goddamn Patch Adams was a smash.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 14 September 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
I thought this thread was revived due to the re-edit of Cotton Club to restore footage that got cut at the time because "too many black people"
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/09/francis-ford-coppola-cotton-club-encore-gregory-hines
― sarahell, Saturday, 14 September 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
if you are curious
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-cotton-club-encore-movie-review-2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 October 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
Never seen the original release - interested to check this out on Blu-Ray or via Amazon.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 14 October 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
“Encore” gives us more of the tap duet between Sandman and his brother Clay (Hines’ real-life brother and dance partner, Maurice Hines) and, in a heart-cracking act of sweet charity, allows Gwen Verdon (who plays Dixie’s mother)
I see what you did there
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 October 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
Watched a couple back-to-back: The Rainmaker and You're a Big Boy Now.
I think it's the first time for both, not 100% sure. The Rainmaker could have been directed by Ron Howard, but I liked it anyway, or at least once Mickey Rourke thankfully made an early exit. DeVito, Voight, Danny Glover, and Mary Kay Place are very good, and I probably like Matt Damon more than most people. His narration reminded me a lot of his narration in Rounders.
You're a Big Boy Now is mostly a dated mid-'60s romp, a young American filmmaker trying to catch up with Godard and Richard Lester. The common observation that it's a precursor to The Graduate has a bit of truth to it, but for me the latter is a quantum leap across the board. Karen Black's first film. I loved one sequence, Elizabeth Hartman's seduction of Peter Kastner to the Lovin' Spoonful's "Darling Be Home Soon." A different song, I wouldn't have even noticed.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 December 2021 01:42 (two years ago) link
did you watch YABBN on TCM? I saw it advertised tonight.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 December 2021 01:43 (two years ago) link
No, I found it on YouTube, which I'm able to watch on the big screen via my cable provider. Clean image, but it seemed a little jumpy now and again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AkcIlt2Yvo
― clemenza, Monday, 13 December 2021 01:47 (two years ago) link
Skip to 1:02:00 for the Lovin' Spoonful. (Off-screen, but Hartman actually puts on a record.)
― clemenza, Monday, 13 December 2021 01:49 (two years ago) link
rumble fish is so dope
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 13 December 2021 03:50 (two years ago) link
Warner Archive did a nice DVD of YABBN.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 December 2021 04:17 (two years ago) link
Anyone see/have memories of the SNL ep Coppola directed? Host George Wendt and musical guests Phillip Glass. 1986.
https://www.onesnladay.com/2019/03/26/march-22-1986-george-wendt-and-francis-ford-coppola-philip-glass-s11-e13/
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 December 2021 04:22 (two years ago) link
New One's in Trouble:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/francis-ford-coppolas-megalopolis-in-peril-1235284875/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 03:09 (one year ago) link
A truly brilliant paragraph right here:
Sources say Coppola, who has never made an effects-heavy movie, fired almost his entire visual effects team Dec. 9, with the rest of that department soon following. Mark Russell, a veteran whose credits include In the Heights and The Wolf of Wall Street, was leading the team as visual effects supervisor. (Coppola famously fired his visual effects department on Dracula 30 years ago.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 03:35 (one year ago) link
one from the heart got nothing here? all right
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 04:19 (one year ago) link
Coppola says the everything is fine:
https://deadline.com/2023/01/francis-ford-coppola-no-truth-to-apocalypse-on-megalopolis-1235216222/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 23:12 (one year ago) link
3D Stake From the Heart got nothing here?
"You don't think going into bankruptcy's scary? It's so scary that it can make you suck your own blood!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkWIh_IiL0o
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
Tom Waits wrote an exceptionally good tune for One from the Heart, though the Crystal Gayle version doesn't work as well and his own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYwwpbStHZw
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
*as his own
this is kinda like choosing a kickball team from a herd of fat kids
I had a legitimate belly laugh at this.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
I don't remember if I voted in this but if I did I'd have voted Tetro.
― ryan, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
https://thefilmstage.com/francis-ford-coppolas-new-re-edit-restoration-btwixt-now-and-sunrise-arrives-in-february/
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
I love The Outsiders
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
Apocalypse Now broke him.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
Saw Rumble Fish in a one-off Alamo screening a couple of months back -- never had seen it before, stagey as hell and yet it worked.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
Anyone see the revamped Cotton Club?
I thought Rumble Fish would be thought of as a cult classic around these parts but obviously.. not.
― piscesx, Thursday, 12 January 2023 03:47 (one year ago) link
Got through One from the Heart over a few nights. Wasn't sure I'd ever give it a go, but the Sam Wasson book made me curious. Such a weird, hollow film. Frederic Forrest is so ill-equipped to handle the lead role (and cursed with a Three Stooges haircut for most of the film). Felt embarrassed for H.D. Stanton (whose hair is worse) and Teri Garr too at different points (not her performance, more that she was dragged into this). I think Tom Waits' score is probably the worst thing about it. I've never seen La La Land: did it take some of its look from Coppola's film?
― clemenza, Monday, 5 February 2024 23:29 (four months ago) link
Ha, pretty brutal review from first line to last. Nastassja Kinski looks great in it though, right? iirc this film, like Bullitt, has one of those airport gate departure scenes that would now be impossible and thus inspire nostalgia.
― Josefa, Monday, 5 February 2024 23:57 (four months ago) link
xxp I actually saw that at the NYFF (having never seen the one that was ultimately released in theaters), and Coppola did explain how the Hines brothers bore the brunt of the cuts because of the racist bullshit the producers threw at him (i.e. the movie's too long and their characters only appealed to Black people). You can kind of tell what was cut because even though they found all those scenes, it feels like they didn't find the original camera negative and had to use inferior quality material to restore them. Not vastly inferior - it still looks like it came from 35mm film - but the picture quality definitely drops down during those scenes. Anyway, I have to say it's probably a massive improvement because the movie really lights up during those scenes - it's ridiculous that they cut them out because the rest feels so stiff in comparison, especially compared to the Hines brothers. Maurice (who just passed away) was at the screening, so at least he got to see it restored.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 00:00 (four months ago) link
At least Heaven's Gate has the two great sequences, the graduation and the roller-skating scene. I know it's seen by some as a great film now, but even if you don't share that view, there are those two sequences. One from the Heart has nothing.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 00:08 (four months ago) link
I agree that the music doesn’t work at all.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 00:12 (four months ago) link
I really really really liked tetro a lot
― brimstead, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:11 (four months ago) link
My intro to the rather hot to Alden Ehrenreich.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:40 (four months ago) link
to
One From the Heart had a couple of screenings at the local Alamo going and out of curiosity I went to see one and what a weird curio of a film. It's pretty obvious that Garr and Julia just have way better chemistry than Garr does with Forrest, while Kinski as a literal magic pixie dream girl means the only way the film even vaguely works plotwise is to read it as 'an abusive kidnapping hypocritical oaf finally pushes someone who deserves better too far, said person finds someone a lot better after all and flies off with him, while the oaf retreats into an unearned fantasy that probably is a sign of a breakdown.' And my god, when Kazan and Stanton start clicking immediately and then we follow Forrest as he runs off I was almost all "Are you insane? Stick with those two! They're fucking hilarious together!" It almost felt like Coppola was trying to puree several Bogdanovich films into one thing.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 03:03 (one month ago) link