Can Cannes Save Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis'?
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‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’ Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags ‘My greatest fear is to make a really shitty, embarrassing, pompous film on an important subject, and I am doing it,” Francis Ford
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‘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‘My greatest fear is to make a really shitty, embarrassing, pompous film on an important subject, and I am doing it,” Francis Ford Coppola said in 1978. “I will tell you right straight from the most sincere depths of my heart, the film will not be good.” The film was Apocalypse Now, and it was good, and the rest is...
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‘Explosive’ secret list of abusers set to upstage women’s big week at Cannes film festival
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