Buzz continues to grow for Megalopolis, the decades-in-the-making movie from director Francis Ford Coppola. The movie, which the 85-year-old director funded himself, has yet to find a U.S. distributor. With first-look photos released earlier this week, as well as today’s trailer, its fortunes might soon change: according to Coppola, the $120 million epic will be … Read more
“I considered many possibilities, becoming interested in an incident known as ‘The Catiline Conspiracy,’” Coppola says, explaining that “modern America was the historical counterpart of ancient Rome and that the Catiline Conspiracy, as told by historian Sallust, could be set in modern America, just as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness [originally set in the late 1800s amid … Read more
In his review of Ferrari, Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson points out that, like Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci, Michael Mann’s latest is a “heavily accented film about a great Italian house of industry.” Adam Driver plays titular titans of business in both movies, as Maurizio Gucci and Enzo Ferrari. That said, Driver would like the … Read more
Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari in “Ferrari.” Lorenzo Sisti If you were online a month ago, and you’re lying if you say you weren’t, you remember the clip: Actor Adam Driver is sitting up on a stage at the 2023 Camerimage International Film Festival in Torún, Poland. He’s unscrewing the cap off of his water … Read more
This holiday season, Saturday Night Live served up a potent reminder: “The only person you need to be is yourself.” So waxed the poster for the 2001 classic Save the Last Dance, in which Julia Stiles finger-pointed her way into Juilliard. During Weekend Update, Chloe Fineman shed her Mrs. Claus jacket and stretched her body … Read more
