Megalopolis articles
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Trailer for ‘Megalopolis’
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis is a Roman Epic fable set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero (Nathalie Emmanuel),...
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‘Megalopolis’: Cannes Review
Francis Ford Coppola's grand vision of a new world order fails to live up to its ambition
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Naturally, Megalopolis is coming for mega screens
It shouldn’t come as news that a huge, potentially final movie by one of the world’s great filmmakers—one that literally has the word “mega” in the title—is set to open on some of cinema’s biggest screens. And yet! Ahead of its big Cannes premiere today, IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond announced that Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis would play on the company’s screens, even though the film has yet to secure a U.S. distributor. “One of the things that we pride ourselves on is being...