Megalopolis

This could be interesting, as in a Blade Runner/Gladiator mashup kinda way...

https://www.youtube.co/watch?v=RU1QyAYa60g

Or it could be a total howler - with Francis you never know till you know!

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/mov...ailer-19456838

Premiers tomorrow (May 16) at Cannes.

And Coppola is doing an interview/discussion on Friday May 17 (also at Cannes).

As far as I know FFC is still seeking distribution.

Gonna guess that the reaction at Cannes will determine if it gets picked up for NA distribution and whether or not it gets a theatrical release.

The history of this film’s development sounds an awful lot like Terry Gilliam’s “journey” filming Don Quixote…

https://www.theguardian.com/film/art...le-megalopolis

Gotta love this hot-take:

[Megalopolos is] “actively fucking with a risk-averse industry. This is Coppola tearing down the modern temple of Hollywood.”


https://variety.com/2024/film/news/m...sy-1236004301/

The flick sure is generating some weird takes is spot on

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/ar...r-19457698.php

Not sure if the self funded thing is fully accurate, but that seems like a really bad idea

I had heard he only sold a portion of his wine business…he still owns a winery in Napa and one in Oregon.

https://www.winespectator.com/articl...coppola-winery

I really hope the film gets a US theatrical release.
Granted, his last film, Twixt, was kind of a stinker (I saw it when it came out at a small theater in St Helena which Coppola donates money to and recall thinking it was cheap looking, like a low-budget B-movie, not to mention the plot being kind of confusing).
That said I did enjoy his 2009 film Tetro, so who knows?

Honestly, this film will either end up like Apocalypse Now(a revered classic or One From the Heart (a flop).

Still wanna see it, though just from the cast alone…

Not fairing well on RT coming out of the Cannes screening yesterday with a 48% from 29 reviews, though I always give the RT compendium a few grains of salt…

Two of my favorite pull quotes, though:


Hoai-Tran Bui
Inverse
TOP CRITIC
Fresh Rating
A bunch of ideas smashed together into a garish, baffling, dazzling, kind of atrocious, and totally audacious rejection of the cinematic form. It should never have been made. And yet, now that it has, we should be so grateful that it exists.


Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
TOP CRITIC
Rotten Rating: 1/5
This is 138 stultifying minutes of ill-conceived themes, half-finished scenes, nails-along-the-blackboard performances, word-salad dialogue and ugly visuals all seemingly in search of a story that isn’t there.

I hope somehow it's at least more the former and not all the latter.