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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFrancis Ford Coppola has admitted he was “heartbroken” not to win Best Director for The Godfather at the Oscars in 1973.However, he also paid tribute to the man who beat him, Bob Fosse, who took home the prize for his work on Cabaret.Writing on Instagram, Coppola recalled: “Like every young aspiring film director, I dreamed of one day winning the Best Director Oscar and holding that…

In an archival clip, which filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola posted online, the young actors all take turns with the lines Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has made an Instagram post about the unique way he cast his adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. The movie, which came out in 1983, starred several notable actors — Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Patrick Swayze, and Ralph Macchio, among others — but they didn’t necessarily audition for the roles they got;…

Actually, it was from the head as much as anything: a movie that arose from Francis Coppola’s shrewd, professional calculation that he could create and control an entire old-fashioned Hollywood romantic drama from his own studio, Zeotrope. The result was a lavish production which was very ambitious, hubristically or perhaps even ruinously so. But at the same time it looks oddly small scale, emotionally parochial and essentially monogamous – certainly a downshift from the colossal sweep of Apocalypse Now or The…

Award-winning director, screenwriter, and producer Sofia Coppola has recently provided more details on why her adaptation of the novel, “The Custom of the Country,” by the acclaimed American author Edith Wharton, was never produced and shown on Apple+. The director had plans of developing the story into a five-episode miniseries.In a new interview, which appears in the latest issue of the New Yorker magazine, “Coppola had cast Oscar nominee Florence Pugh to star in the lead role of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who…

Nearly five years ago, acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola talked about his plans to finally create a movie he’s had cooking in his head since the ‘80s. He even tried to make it during the early 2000s, but 9/11 made that impossible, since he felt it would be in bad taste. But twenty years later, he’s finally made Megalopolis, and it’ll see the light of day later this year.Will You Click Windows’ New Copilot Button?During a recent episode of the Accutron podcast, Coppola confirmed it would be “a few months” of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePriscilla, Sofia Coppola’s telling of the courtship of the 14-year-old Priscilla Presley née Beaulieu by the 24-year-old Elvis, will make uncomfortable viewing for fans of The King. It shows him in a far from flattering light, as an insecure narcissist fixated on a teenage girl and unwilling to allow his young wife any independence. The film, endorsed by Presley herself and adapted…

Sofia Coppola's latest release, Priscilla, is one of the most well-reviewed films of the year. The film first premiered at the 80th Venice Film Festival in September, where it was greeted with a rapturous 7-minute-long standing ovation and ultimately won Best Actress for Cailee Spaeny. Now, in a new interview with BBC News, the director shared that it is 'frustrating' how as a female director she has to fight to get a budget for her movies to get made whereas her male counterparts receive massive budgets for their…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeKeanu Reeves has recalled once giving director Francis Ford Coppola magic mushrooms as a birthday gift.“I gave Francis Ford Coppola, once, for his birthday, some mushrooms,” the 59-year-old actor told the Inside Of You Podcast with Michael Rosenbaum. “While we were doing Dracula.”Reeves starred alongside Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins in Coppola’s 1992 vampire romance…

Child bride, infant sacrifice, bobbysoxer concubine: Priscilla Presley, wife of Elvis, is all these in Sofia Coppola’s eerily gripping, queasily claustrophobic portrait of marital loneliness, trapped behind the kitschy prison gates of Graceland while the King is away on tour, or shooting movies with glamorous worldly female co-stars and a creepily subservient male entourage. Priscilla becomes Memphis’s very own Lady Diana, with Ann-Margret or Nancy Sinatra in the Camilla Parker-Bowles role.The film is based on Elvis and…

Sofia Coppola's filmography is aromatic of coming-of-age stories and complexities of girlhood and growing up. Her latest film, Priscilla, is another chapter in that book. Like many of her previous works, it's also a book adaptation – of the memoir by Priscilla Presley, the wife of Elvis Presley. (Also Read: Priscilla trailer: Sofia Coppola charts the troubled love story of Elvis Presley. Watch) Sofia Coppola speaks to Hindustan Times in an exclusive interview In an exclusive interview, Sofia talks about…