Comments on: The Essentials: The Films Of Francis Ford Coppola

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:51:46 +0000

"One From the Heart" was shot on the Zoetrope studios lot in – no Sanfrancisco. I lived a fewd visited the place freq

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:51:46 +0000

Great article! Thank you for your time and talents in putting together a wonderful overview. But as a Coppola fanboy, I wanted to point out one error re One From the Heart "…it was filmed entirely on the American Zoetrope soundstages in San Francisco … "

The Zoetrope stages were actually in Hollywood, the old Hollywood General stages.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:51:46 +0000

i dont really agree whem the article says apocalypse now was the last truly great film he\’s made. Yes its true, the films he made in the 70\’s were some of the best ever made. But he made some seriously great stuff in thr 80\’s and with tetro. It just sounds so official and untrue when you phrase it like that.

By: AMAZING

AMAZING — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:51:46 +0000

Right, because you get the utter completist FFC retrospective and then you complain about a producing credit that he didn\’t even direct? AMAZING.

By: Volodymyr Bilyk

Volodymyr Bilyk — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:51:46 +0000

how about mentioning one of his more infamous producing credits – Hammett?

By: BB

BB — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:51:46 +0000

1: FFC needs to remember how he was during Godfather 1&2,Apocalypse Now and The Conversation and how that contributed to such great works, otherwise I fear more of the same subpar efforts.

2: It needs to be contemporary.

3: no hot generic looking actors (like the above mentioned films)

By: Derek Diercksmeier

Derek Diercksmeier — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:51:46 +0000

I adored "Twixt"

By: twistedfloyd

twistedfloyd — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:51:46 +0000

Nice breakdown! I\’m currently on a Coppola craze at the moment, re-watching the Godfather trilogy on loop over the last two months while I work, while also searching out his other movies. Just saw Tetro which was nice and The Conversation, which I loved. I tried to watch Jack but couldn\’t make it through it. On The Outsiders right now.

Out of the 7 movies of his I\’ve seen, I would say this is pretty darn spot on. I\’m not sure if I like I or II more, but that\’s like picking between two perfectly prepared pieces of steak, you can\’t go wrong.

I\’m also glad you didn\’t tear III to shreds. There\’s a lot of great things in it. You could tell the parts where Coppola was really interested in it, and the parts where he wasn\’t. The vatican bank stuff, most of the violence isn\’t that interesting, but Michael\’s search for redemption is incredible. Also, the last five minutes of the movie is brilliant tragedy.

Great breakdown. I think Francis has one more masterpiece in him. I\’m hoping that his next film is it!

It\’s supposed to be a multi-generational film about an Italian family that is apparently going to be a big studio film. If anyone can do that, he can. Hopefully the studio stays out of the way and let\’s him work. When Coppola is on, there are very few that hold even a candle to him. Hopefully this is one of those times.

By: Tangential

Tangential — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:51:46 +0000

Filmmaker doc can be found on YouTube.

By: fry

fry — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:51:46 +0000

Nice article! Manny Farber was fond of The Rain People, I remember he included it in one of his top 10 lists along Easy Rider and They Shoot Horses, Don\’t They?