Even in his ninth decade, Coppola still wants to keep breaking rules and upending expectations the way he did when he was a film student. And he hints at something else on the horizon - a few days after we speak, he’ll announce his first new film in eight years, a long-in-the-making pet project titled Megalopolis. Coppola hopes to stage more “Live Cinema” events, his way of blending live performances and moviemaking simultaneously he also recently premiered Apocalypse Now: Final Cut at the Tribeca Film Festival, a new version of the film that incorporates previously unseen footage originally left on the cutting-room floor (“We’ve put a lot of the weirder stuff back in”) and will be released on Blu-ray in August. This is the End: James Gray on Apocalypse NowĪnd the director continues to revisit his old work and push the boundaries of where the movies are headed. 'Silence of the Lambs': 'It Broke All the Rules'Įvery Super Bowl Halftime Show, Ranked From Worst to Best brand that now encompasses restaurants and eco-tourism resorts he continues to publish Zoetrope All-Story, a literary journal and he’s just launched his own cannabis lifestyle project dubbed the Grower’s Series. But he’s expanded his winery into a sort of Coppola Inc. He may no longer own a film studio like he did in the late 1970s, the decade in which he became the hirsute face of New Hollywood and had an extraordinary run of critically and commercially successful movies ranging from The Godfather to Apocalypse Now. Whether Coppola actually scribbles down a running tally of new things he wants to deep-dive into every day is irrelevant (though it’s the sort of thing you could imagine him doing) even in his autumn years, the 80-year-old filmmaker, Oscar-winner, winemaker and entrepreneur is not the kind of person to sit idly by. And that’s really what I’m trying to do now.” But how many people get up every morning and make a list of 10 things they want to learn or enjoy that day? Very few. “It’s a list of things that you don’t really want to do, or even think about. “What’s a to-do list?” Francis Ford Coppola asks, and there’s a long, pregnant pause on the end of the phone line before he answers his own question.
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