[wpedon id=”3579″ align=”center”] Everyone in the house at the Beacon Theatre already knew the legend of Apocalypse Now. The troubled production of Francis Ford Coppola’s psychedelic Vietnam war epic has already calcified into the stuff of industry myth: leading man Martin Sheen was nearly felled by a heart attack, second lead Marlon Brando showed up […]
Mr. Coppola, you once said that it is very difficult to be a good artist if you are rich. Do you still think the same way? These days I think that it’s good to be rich because you are not going to make any money making personal films.(Laughs) Nobody will go see them. If you […]
The New Hollywood wave may be the most significant film movement in the history of American cinema. The classic era of Hollywood was built on vertical integration, meaning that the film studios controlled the production, distribution and exhibition of every movie they made, until the United States v Paramount Pictures Case forced the studios to […]