Tom Jolliffe looks at the forgotten gems that most great directors have… If you think of many great directors you cast your mind to their career highlights. Those iconic films. Many of these directors become largely defined by one or two films in particular (sometimes more). Additionally occasionally you might also remember those films that […]
Second Generation Directors: The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at directors following in their parents’ footsteps… Undoubtedly the influence of your parents plays a big part in shaping you as a person. In the almost surreal world of cinema and movie-making, there will be a kind of magical allure at the power a film director can wield. Offspring of […]
The Godfather at 50: Cinema Reinvented
Tom Jolliffe looks back at The Godfather as it turns 50… In 1967, Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde began a solid decade of a mature, intense and gritty American cinema. Though Penn was fairly experienced by this point, he was unknowingly going to help forge a path that a new wave of (future) iconic directors […]
1975: The Year Francis Ford Coppola Dominated the Oscars
Tom Jolliffe looks back to the 1975 Academy Awards ceremony, when Francis Ford Coppola had The Godfather: Part II and The Conversation in competition… With the Oscars around the corner, now is a good time to look back at the 1975 ceremony. It was a year filled to the brim with exceptional films. Among an […]
Shia LaBeouf joins Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis
Director Francis Ford Coppola continues to round out the cast of his passion project Megalopolis, with controversial actor Shia LaBeouf leading a new round of additions to the film alongside Coppola’s sister Talia Shire (The Godfather) and nephew Jason Schwartzman (The French Dispatch). LaBeouf’s casting marks the actor’s first major role since he was accused […]
Aubrey Plaza joins Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola’s independently financed $100M passion-project Megalopolis had already assembled quite the cast, and now he has assured it becomes a must-see by adding Aubrey Plaza to the ensemble. Sources close to Deadline revealed that the Ingrid Goes West actor would be joining Adam Driver (Paterson), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), Nathalie Emmanuel (Game […]
Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders coming to 4K with extended cut
Earlier this month it was announced that Francis Ford Coppola has put together a Director’s Cut of his debut feature, the Roger Corman-produced Dementia 13, and now comes word that the legendary filmmaker has revisited another of his former films in 1983’s coming of age drama The Outsiders for an extended version titled The Outsiders […]
Adam Driver headlines impressive cast for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis
A few months ago Francis Ford Coppola was talking about the hopes he had for his $100M passion-project Megalopolis, most notably the ambitious cast he wanted to assemble for the epic drama. Well it appears that the legendary director of The Godfather Trilogy and Apocalypse Now still has some real pulling-power, because despite not helming a […]
Francis Ford Coppola says Marvel is “one prototype movie made over and over and over and over and over again”
One of the first directors to speak out in support of Martin Scorsese’s “not cinema” comments regarding Marvel Studios was that of fellow filmmaking legend Francis Ford Coppola, with the The Godfather and Apocalypse Now helmer going as far as to describe superhero movies as “despicable” back in 2019. Well, it seems that the likes […]
Francis Ford Coppola still hoping to make his dream picture Megalopolis with a cast of Oscar Isaac, Forest Whitaker and Cate Blanchett
The Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation are just a few of the cinematic milestones which have cemented Francis Ford Coppola as one of the greatest directors of all time, and even though he is 82 and hasn’t directed a film since 2016’s Distant Vision, the legendary helmer is still harbouring ambitions to film […]
