NY Observer > Francis Ford Coppola http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/36090/feed Articles from Observer.com en Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Big Willy Style! Who Didn't Go to the Movies This Weekend? http://www.observer.com/2007/manhattan-weekend-box-office-big-willy-style-who-didnt-go-movies-weekend

The lethal combination of Will Smith in the tentpole apocalypse-drama I Am Legend (No. 1), the nasty weather enveloping the Northeast, and nothing good happening on TV (which translates to nothing good saved for weekend DVR watching) created one of the healthiest weekends for Hollywood in some time. In Manhattan, who didn’t go to the movies? Each movie, save one, Enchanted (No. 8), averaged over the all-important $10,000 waterline, not to mention the behemoth $1 million-plus take of Legend, which broke the national box office record for a December opening with $76 million in receipts. Yowza!  read more »

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YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH
Running Time 124 minutes
Written and directed by Francis Coppola  read more »

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YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH
Running Time 124 minutes
Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/napa-valley-nap#comments Movies O2 Francis Ford Coppola Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:40:20 -0500 Rex Reed 61795 at http://www.observer.com Francis Ford Coppola, 'Tortured and Stumped,' Pumps Youth Without Youth http://www.observer.com/2007/coppola-roth-talk-youth-without-youth

“They always play The Godfather [theme] when I come down at these things,” said Francis Ford Coppola, looking jovial and scruffy in colorful layers last night at a screening of his new movie Youth Without Youth (opening Dec. 14) at the Paris Theater. “I beg the audience to let me move on, find new ways of expressing myself.”

Mr. Coppola wrote, produced and directed Youth Without Youth through his independent film studio, American Zoetrope, Ltd, which was established 1969 so that the prolific director could make more personal movies and avoid the major studios (remember what happened with Apocalypse Now?)  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/coppola-roth-talk-youth-without-youth#comments O2 Francis Ford Coppola Tim Roth Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:38:00 -0500 Gillian Reagan 61359 at http://www.observer.com Apocalypse Cash Cow! Coppola Takes Doc About His Magnum Opus to DVD; Its Director Pouts http://www.observer.com/2007/apocalypse-cash-cow-coppola-takes-doc-about-his-magnum-opus-dvd-its-director-pouts

Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola is being accused of hypocrisy and “corporation”-like behavior by fellow filmmaker George Hickenlooper (Factory Girl).  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/apocalypse-cash-cow-coppola-takes-doc-about-his-magnum-opus-dvd-its-director-pouts#comments O2 Francis Ford Coppola George Hickenlooper Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:59:56 -0400 Spencer Morgan 59315 at http://www.observer.com Does Lucas' Star Wars Finale Take Revenge on Planet Bush? http://www.observer.com/node/50891 George Lucas may be the only moviemaking billionaire I have ever met (if only briefly), at a college  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/50891#comments O2 Arnaud Desplechin Francis Ford Coppola George Lucas Ismal into Nora Sun, 29 May 2005 20:00:00 -0400 Andrew Sarris 50891 at http://www.observer.com Great, Eccentric Film Writer Expands Magnum Opus-Again http://www.observer.com/node/46567 The New Biographical Dictionary of Film , by David Thomson. Alfred A.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/46567#comments O2 David Thomson Francis Ford Coppola Fred Astaire Stanley Kubrick Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:00:00 -0400 Tom Shone 46567 at http://www.observer.com I Never Argue Over Movies-Well, Maybe Not Never http://www.observer.com/node/44875 In all the years I've been reviewing movies-and my firstpublished review goes back to 1955-I've been  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/44875#comments O2 Francis Ford Coppola Franz Lidz Paul Cox Steve Rushin Sun, 19 Aug 2001 20:00:00 -0400 Andrew Sarris 44875 at http://www.observer.com New York Times Nixes Gay Couple's Wedding Announcement http://www.observer.com/node/44764 On March 18, 2000, The New York Times' Op-Ed page cheered the Vermont House of Representatives for i  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/44764#comments Media Francis Ford Coppola Joseph Quenqua Vermont William Borders Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:00:00 -0400 NYO Staff 44764 at http://www.observer.com 10,000 Nazis Under the Sea … Deflowered in the Attic http://www.observer.com/node/42856 10,000 Nazis Under the Sea  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/42856#comments O2 Bill Paxton Francis Ford Coppola Jon Bon Jovi Lisbon Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:00:00 -0400 Rex Reed 42856 at http://www.observer.com