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Blendcast: Three Men And The Other Famous Austrian
14 July 2009 8:34 PM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news
Who is the most desirable: Marcia Brady, Topanga Lawrence or Hermione Granger? Could Orlando Bloom take out a Roadhouse era Patrick Swayze if he had a loaded musket and four throwing stars? And what.s the deal with I Love You Beth Cooper failing? Was it destiny or the shitness of Heroes? We get to all of these burning questions on this week.s Blendcast, as well as discuss legalizing marijuana, debate the pros and cons to wedding Zelda Fitzgerald and explain why Vincent Gallo movies are like Radiohead. Naturally there.s some Bruno talk, some Harry Potter obsessing and some inappropriate death jokes. It just wouldn.t be the Blendcast without laughs the faint of heart would call too soon. Click the icon below to have a listen or better yet, subscribe on iTunes with that fancy web 2.0 link. Warning!: This week.s episode contains course language, impure
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Tetro—A Question for Francis Ford Coppola
1 July 2009 5:15 PM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news
Shortly before the hordes began chanting, “The Daily is dead; long live The Daily”, David Hudson gathered reviews of Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro, first from its Cannes debut, and then later mid-June when it opened stateside. Here in San Francisco, Coppola met with his audience at the film’s first screening at the Sundance Kabuki.
Outlining how The Godfather created a “tsunami of success” that irrevocably changed his life and filmmaking, Coppola has gleaned from the passing of years a restoration of creative spirit leaning into what he admits is his “second career.” Tetro is, in fact, the second film of his second career; Youth Without Youth being the first. Lustrously shot in digital and projected in 35mm, the film is a rapture to watch, even as its rich visuals disguise an anemic narrative that doesn’t quite ring true. One is grateful for what one has seen; but,
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Michael Guillen
Q&A - Francis Ford Coppola on How He Became His Own Boss (Again) for Tetro
18 June 2009 7:30 AM, PDT | From amctv.com - Exclusive Interviews | See recent amctv.com - Exclusive Interviews news
Francis Ford Coppola's latest film, Tetro is a passion project. Shot in Argentina in black and white, the movie stars Vincent Gallo and newcomer Alden Ehrenreich as brothers in what may be the director's most personal film yet. He explains... Q: La Boca, where you shot in Buenos Aires, is a very colorful area -- an unusual choice for a black and white movie. A: Black and white is
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Interview: Francis Ford Coppola, Tetro
15 June 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | From MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news
“Tetro” is visionary director Francis Ford Coppola’s first original screenplay since “The Conversation” nearly four decades ago and it’s his most personal film yet. Arising from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional, it is the bittersweet story of two brothers, of family lost and found, and the conflicts, disturbing secrets and complex dynamics within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family. The film stars Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Francesca de Sapio, Maribel Verdu, and Klaus Maria Brandauer. Written, produced and dir...
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Francis Ford Coppola Talks 'Tetro' And Whether He'll Make Another 'Godfather'
12 June 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | From MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news
'I like to think of this as the second film of my second career,' the legendary director says of his latest movie.
By Josh Horowitz
Josh Horowitz with Francis Ford Coppola and Alden Ehrenreich
Photo: MTV News
A handful of filmmakers have earned the right to make whatever film strikes their fancy and not make any apologies for it. Count Francis Ford Coppola in this group. His near-absurd level of productivity in the '70s alone (two "Godfather" films, "The Conversation," and "Apocalypse Now") has ensured his legacy but that hasn't stopped the septuagenarian from embarking on a new, more personal filmmaking path.
That personal touch began with 2007's "Youth Without Youth" and continues in the just-released "Tetro," the first original screenplay brought to the screen by Coppola in 35 years. Starring Vincent Gallo and newcomer (and immediate actor-to-watch) Alden Ehrenreich, "Tetro" is a sumptuously photographed (mostly in black and
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Review: Tetro
11 June 2009 7:03 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Francis Ford Coppola may never again craft a classic like The Godfather, but after years spent toiling on bland studio fare - as well as 2007's ambitious, muddled Youth Without Youth - the director regains his mojo with Tetro, a saga of familial strife and Oedipal conflict equally indebted to '60s euro cinema and the theatrical traditions of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. An independently financed gem, Coppola's first self-penned film since 1974's The Conversation is shot in lustrous black and white and marked by an old-school formal proficiency that's highlighted by an endlessly intriguing and expressive frame. It's also rife with echoes of the past, in terms of its cinematic forbearers - including The Godfather, and its focus on the shadow cast by titanic father figures on sons - as well as its narrative proper, which concerns the reunion in Buenos Aires of 18-year-old Bennie (newcomer Alden Ehrenreich
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Nick Schager
Scenes We Love: Buffalo 66
11 June 2009 4:26 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Vincent Gallo's persona is anything but brightly colored and melodic. In fact, it's mostly brooding, insane, and tense. He's lathered the hate on for who knows how many fellow actors and actresses, journalists, websites, and other bystanders he's come in contact with. He's redefined crude by offering to sell his sperm to light-complexioned people (the blonde and blue-eyed would even get a discount!). Nevertheless, some of his art can be undeniably and irresistibly sweet and melodic.
His CD "When" is an exercise in gentle soft sounds, and in the cinematic realm, there's nothing that compares to the Christina Ricci bowling alley dance scene in Buffalo 66. The lights dim, King Crimson's "Moonchild" purrs, and a spotlighted Ricci taps in time to the music. Sure, I'm a Crimson fan and I have a thing for under-saturated colors, but the gem of this scene lies in that wistful look in Ricci's eyes,
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Monika Bartyzel
Review: Tetro
11 June 2009 12:28 PM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news
Tetro is the second film of what Francis Ford Coppola openly calls his “second career,” a paean to the dysfunctions, jealousies and other deeply-felt emotions brewing in a family full of egotistical artists. It, like 2007’s Youth Without Youth, stands as a far cry from the for-hire studio schlock he regularly churned out before his decade long hiatus. Similarly, the film owes less to the grand classical Hollywood traditions its maker subverted during his prime than the distinctly European tradition of incorporating surrealistic psychological touches into a mainstream character driven framework. Shot smoothly on digital black-and-white, it makes full use of the imposing attached shadows and carefully calibrated lighting characteristic of the films that most effectively incorporate the still-potent format. The sharply colored interludes of painful flashbacks and interpretative dances lend it an edge that places the contemporarily unfolding dramatics within a larger, affecting context. It mines more emotional truths than Coppola’s deeply flawed prior effort
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Robert Levin
Francis Ford Coppola Untangles "Tetro"
11 June 2009 8:33 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
It was telling that a roundtable interview with Francis Ford Coppola ended with a great deal of enthusiasm... about his vineyards. And much of it was from the director himself, who slyly countered one of the assembled journalists' praise of his Cabernet Sauvignon with "maybe I should offer an associate producer credit for people buying my wine."
Of course, it was the fruit of Coppola's estimable winery that financed "Tetro," but the film itself appears to be a product of a filmmaker who's become richer with age, though the clearer focus he now has as an artist has produced a feature that might seem less so for some audiences. Like his last film, "Youth Without Youth," "Tetro" is aggressively unconventional, using crisp black and white cinematography to tell the tale of the Tetrocinis, an estranged family of artists. The youngest son (Alden Ehrenreich) feigns a leave of absence from military school,
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Stephen Saito
Movie Review: Tetro (2009)
11 June 2009 2:12 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
Photo: American Zoetrope Releasing Watching Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro I came away with something of a soothing sensation. Visually, it's an absolutely beautiful film, shot in widescreen black-and-white with bold splashes of color peppered throughout. The story is a delicately told narrative that draws several similarities from Coppola's personal life, yet more than enough differences to make sure it is not at all autobiographical. While the ending suffers from an extremely melodramatic climax, Tetro is so comforting to watch, elegantly told and superbly acted it is one I could return to again and again. The story begins with the unexpected arrival of 17-year-old Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich) at his older brother Tetro's (Vincent Gallo) Buenos Aires apartment. There is obvious tension coming from the closed bedroom door that keeps Tetro hidden at the outset as deep-rooted family secrets become the order of the day. Both
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Brad Brevet
Brothers Grim-faced
11 June 2009 12:04 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news
Meet Francis Ford Coppola 5.0: The Interesting Failure phase. Which cer tainly beats 4.0, the paycheck period of 1990s films like "Jack," in which Robin Williams made the stretch of reverting to childhood. But "Tetro," the second in Coppola's new line of low-budget art films (following last year's headache factory "Youth Without Youth"), is hard to take seriously.
In La Boca, the café quarter of Buenos Aires, a grimacing, unsuccessful writer named Tetro (Vincent Gallo) on the run from his
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By KYLE SMITH
'Tetro': Art Damage, By Kurt Loder
10 June 2009 11:23 PM, PDT | From MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news
Francis Ford Coppola in exile from his true talent.
Alden Ehrenreich in "Tetro"
Photo: American Zoetrope
Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" is such a beautiful movie to look at that you wish it had a less-overwrought story, one that might draw us into it. Photographed in glorious black-and-white (with rich, inky blacks anchoring a carefully modulated grayscale), and punctuated with splashes of eye-popping color, the picture is a riveting visual experience. But the tale it tells — of two brothers in flight from their imperious father — grows tedious, and in the end collapses into startling preposterousness.
Vincent Gallo plays Angelo Tetroncini, a man racked by obscure torment. Ten years ago, Angelo moved to Buenos Aires (where the film was shot) in order to write — a vocation his father Carlo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a celebrated opera director, had derided. ("There's only room for one genius in this family," he told his son.
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'Tetro': Art Damage, By Kurt Loder
10 June 2009 11:23 PM, PDT | From MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news
Francis Ford Coppola in exile from his true talent.
Vincent Gallo in "Tetro"
Photo: American Zoetrope
Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" is such a beautiful movie to look at that you wish it had a less-overwrought story, one that might draw us into it. Photographed in glorious black-and-white (with rich, inky blacks anchoring a carefully modulated grayscale), and punctuated with splashes of eye-popping color, the picture is a riveting visual experience. But the tale it tells — of two brothers in flight from their imperious father — grows tedious, and in the end collapses into startling preposterousness.
Vincent Gallo plays Angelo Tetroncini, a man racked by obscure torment. Ten years ago, Angelo moved to Buenos Aires (where the film was shot) in order to write — a vocation his father Carlo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a celebrated opera director, had derided. ("There's only room for one genius in this family," he told his son.
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Francis Ford Coppola’s Next to be an Action Film?
10 June 2009 11:10 PM, PDT | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news
Acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola stopped by the Adam Carolla Podcast recently to promote his latest film, Tetro. The conversation inevitably turned to Coppola’s future projects. Coppola is already writing his next film and says it’s going to be a “bigger more expensive, more demanding picture” than his latest independent features. Coppola didn’t offer up any concrete details but did say he’s always wanted to make this “kind of movie” and that “it’s a much more of an intriguing action-based kind of story”. Tetro, Coppola’s latest that he fully financed himself, is set to open in limited release June 11 and is Coppola’s first original screenplay since 1974’s The Conversation. It stars Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdú, Alden Ehrenreich and Klaus Maria Brandauer. In Tetro, Bennie (Ehrenreich) travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother (Gallo), a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self.
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James Cook
Coppola Was Warned Off Casting 'Fabulous' Gallo
9 June 2009 1:00 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Francis Ford Coppola defied the warnings of friends and Hollywood colleagues to cast eccentric Vincent Gallo in his new film.
Actor and filmmaker Gallo has been blacklisted by a number of filmmakers and actors after clashing with co-stars and cast members on various projects.
He once famously fired Winona Ryder from a movie after hiring her purely as a publicity stunt and reportedly filmed a sex scene with then-girlfriend Chloe Sevigny for controversial film The Brown Bunny.
Coppola admits when he considered Gallo for his new movie Tetro, he was inundated with calls, warning him away from the 48-year-old actor/director.
But, having directed legendary bad boy Marlon Brando in two movies, the legendary director was sure he could handle Gallo.
He says, "Vincent, when I cast him, everyone called me and told me, 'This guy is poison, don't work with him, do not involve him.' I cast him and it turned out he was a fabulous guy."
Francis Ford Coppola ... Grilled
8 June 2009 11:40 AM, PDT | From The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news
On his new "Tetro," "Godfather 4" and why he doesn't have, or want, a film career anymore.
By Jordan Riefe
“The Godfather,” “The Conversation," “Godfather II” and “Apocalypse Now” -- it’s got to be the longest string of masterpieces ever by an American director. He is the legendary Francis Ford Coppola, the maverick who, in 2007, embarked on a second career with the enigmatic “Youth Without Youth." His new movie, “Tetro," was produced, written, directed and even financed by Coppola, using money from his wine and gourmet food interests. Vincent Gallo and newcomer Alden Ehrenreich star as estranged brothers who struggle...
Lew Harris
An Interview with Francis Ford Coppola: Finding His Place in Filmmaking
8 June 2009 2:29 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
Photo: American Zoetrope This week Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro hits theaters following its May debut at the Cannes Film Festival. I was among the first to see the film back at the end of April and recently had a chance to speak with the Oscar-winning writer and director over the phone from his office at American Zoetrope, his production house that is also set to distribute the film, but it wasn't always planned that way. "We sort of fell into self release without really wanting to," Coppola tells me as the film hits theaters this Thursday, June 11. "It only happened because we didn't particularly want to show the movie until it was finished and we didn't want it to get suddenly released in late November with a bunch of independent films because they have this habit of all coming out at the end of the year so they can
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Brad Brevet
Coppola Returns With Tetro- June 11
7 June 2009 8:49 AM, PDT | From HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news
Tetro is the newest film feature from writer/director Francis Ford Coppola, starring actors Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdú and Carmen Maura. "It is set in Argentina", said Coppola. "The story will follow the rivalries born out of creative differences passed down through generations of an artistic Italian immigrant family." Coppola was attracted to Argentina as a location. "I knew Argentina has a great cultural, artistic, literary, musical, cinema tradition," he said. "And I like those kinds of atmospheres very much because you usually find creative people to work with." Spanish company Tornasol Films and Italian company Bim Distribuzione are co-producers. Production started March 31, 2008, budgeted at $15 million, with locations including La Boca in Buenos Aires, the Andean foothills in Patagonia and at Ciudad de la Luz studios in Alicante, Spain...
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June 2009 Monthly Movie Preview
23 May 2009 10:19 AM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news
The days of summer move on, but the June movie month will be busy reflecting on the past. Three out of four of the Movies of the Week are adaptations of earlier works, and caveman comedy Year One is bound to kick it old, old, old school – Harold Ramis style. Movies like The Taking of Pelham 123 and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are gonna turn up the action heat, with alternative laughs provided by films like The Hangover and even Woody Allen’s newest, Whatever Works.
Sure, some may think they’ve already seen the best movie of the summer (Star Trek), but there’s plenty of possible sources for entertainment from the lovely month of June. And no, I’m not talking about the King of Kong rematch happening on the 2nd. But that could certainly be as epic as another showdown of Optimus versus Megatron.
June 5th Movie
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Nick Allen
First Poster Art For Tarik Saleh’s Metropia
22 May 2009 8:13 AM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news
While we eagerly await the arrival of the first full trailer for Tarik Saleh’s animated scifi Metropia - a film that I can assure you easily lives up to its early promise - we do have the first poster art to share with you. Or, at least I assume this will match the poster art as it’s actually the artwork that was used on sales flyers for the film in the Cannes Marche Du Film.
Metropia is taking place in a not-so-distant, terrifying Europe. The world is running out of oil and the net of undergrounds has been connected, creating a gigantic web underneath Europe. Roger from Farsta (a suburb of Stockholm) tries to stay away from the underground. He thinks it’s unpleasant and he sometimes hear strange voices in is head.
One day Roger finds out that his life is controlled in every detail. He tries to break free.
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Todd Brown
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