Movies: Megalopolis - Francis Ford Coppola

[johnjm22]

‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’ Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis

The director has spent half his life and $120m of his own money to make his sci-fi epic. Just days ahead of its debut in Cannes, some of his crew members are questioning his methods

www.theguardian.com

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[archangel2]

Taken nearly 40 years for him to make this movie. IT was announced before he did Cotton Club

A longtime passion project for Coppola, who first conceived the idea for the film in 1977 and actively started developing it in 1983, Megalopolis underwent significant delays and numerous cancellations over the years. Coppola revived the project in 2019 by spending $120 million of his own money on the film. Filming took place from November 2022 to March 2023. The film is Coppola's first directorial effort since Twixt (2011), marking his longest gap between films.

 

[johnjm22]

"This film is bonkers."

"The film is a mess, but it's mesmerizing. It's a complete freakout."

"It looks terrible yet it's engaging."

"The visual FX look like something from an 80's PC game and yet somehow they completely fit with the weird sci-fi retro futurist sensation."

 

[I am not exposed]

Megalopolis film review: Francis Ford Coppola's passion project is a 'pretentious, portentous curio'

One star for Francis Ford Coppola's "loopy" retro-futuristic passion project, which is "incoherent" – and looks "horribly cheap and amateurish".

www.bbc.com

 

[NyQuil]

Megalopolis film review: Francis Ford Coppola's passion project is a 'pretentious, portentous curio'

One star for Francis Ford Coppola's "loopy" retro-futuristic passion project, which is "incoherent" – and looks "horribly cheap and amateurish".

www.bbc.com

Judging by this review, there are going to be reviewers who consider it the best film ever made, but that some people just don't quite have the sensibility to really appreciate it.

 

[johnjm22]

I suspect it will be more interesting than it is good.

But I’m fascinated by it. Apparently it still doesn’t have a distributor. It was screened for all the majors but none of them wanted it.