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  truthiness8 months, 2 weeks ago

  good interview

  really disappointed my question wasn't asked.

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    JamesMarcus8 months, 2 weeks ago

    Sorry about that. Like I said, it was a roundtable format, which limited the number of questions I could ask. But please do submit some questions for the next two interviews, since those will be one-on-one and I can keep Q-and-Aing 'til the cows come home.

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      Radiofreeeuropa8 months, 1 week ago

      Nice job! Good interview James. I think this is great.

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  gamahuche8 months, 2 weeks ago

  Well I was disappointed about my wine question but I learned to live with it :-)

  [and was glad to see wine mentioned in the blurb!]

  I like Coppola! He could get himself bankrolled over and over for blockbuster pics and here he is, totally credibly, thumbing his nose at the mainstream and BIG bucks, espousing creativity, new technology and following personal interests into uncharted territory. Mircea Eliade is a very interesting writer who wrote amongst many great works a very passable text on alchemy, for example.

  Not only that but going to Rumania to shoot is still pretty hardcore - its the least developed of the former Communist countries that lie in the bidy of Europe. Even Bucharest, though a beautiful city, physically resembling Paris, is rife with wild dogs and a generation of lost glue-sniffing street kids.

  More power to his elbow and may his wine-cup overflow! I'll drink to that at lunch today but it will be a marvellous unpasteurised organic lager!

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    puffin8 months, 2 weeks ago

    Yes, gama. I went to his winery. My brother was their Master Sommalier at Rubicon (his restaurant co-owned also by Robin Williams, and DeNiro). It's also Mr. Coppolas' gnocchi recipe that I use personally, if/when I make my own - it's really so easy and smaller bite sizes cook better!

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      gamahuche8 months, 2 weeks ago

      I know of his wine activities mainly through his connection to Chez Panisse in Berkeley and know that he's bought a new winery [is that Rubicon?] and is growing organic grapes there. I believe its his daughter's baby and that the sommeliere at Chez P. is closely involved with the project. Coppola was a fan of Chez P from its early days.

      I've made some pastas from scratch but never gnocchi.

      Shame we can't do a swap over the ethernet!

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        puffin8 months, 2 weeks ago

        Mmm, the restaurant itself is named Rubicon - it's right in San Fran. He later named the winery Rubicon also but it was still the original name when I visited. It was so beautiful.

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  evilgenius378 months, 2 weeks ago

  this is my favourite producer

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  TimALoftis8 months, 2 weeks ago

  excellent interview. I hope he will reconsider and makes a modern day war film.

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  Spadecaller8 months, 2 weeks ago

  I enjoyed the interview.

  "Coppola: ... Two hundred years from now, maybe we'll see movies that can actually get inside a person's head."

  That may be interesting too. (Although, my mind is sometimes like a bad neighborhood, you may want to go there.)

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    coreyspring8 months, 2 weeks ago

    Yeah seriously James, this is an awesome interview, Coppola is the man and that is an understatement.

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    JamesMarcus8 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hi Spadecaller. I'm sure a visit to your mind would be very congenial. Stepping into Tom Cruise's cerebellum might be another matter entirely.

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      Spadecaller8 months, 2 weeks ago

      :~o

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      mamasan8 months, 2 weeks ago

      I like most of Toms movies but who knows what lurks

      in any of our cerebellums!

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  idyll8 months, 2 weeks ago

  "I'm waiting twenty years, and only hope that I'm alive to hear what Youth Without Youth really was"

  I like that quote, too. YWY sounds very interesting. I recently saw the Godfather series for the first time. (Not sure why I never did...) Bowled over.

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    JamesMarcus8 months, 2 weeks ago

    I also admire Coppola's tendency to take the long view. As for the Godfather franchise: the first one is great, the second one is greater. Can anybody think of another series that tops itself in this way? (Unfortunately the third Godfather film represented a steep drop from its predecessor.)

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  tdrapeau8 months, 2 weeks ago

  I enjoyed the interview as well, and appreciated the link back to the original Godfather review for perspective. Nice job James!

  I also think that Mr. Coppola's point of view on making movies is quite refreshing, and wish him the best with "Youth Without Youth".

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    JamesMarcus8 months, 2 weeks ago

    Thanks to Tom, Tim, Corey, and evilgenius. To be honest, I think "Youth Without Youth" is a pretty problematic film--the images are beautiful, but the plot and dialogue are frequently a shambles. Still, Coppola's rejuvenated enthusiasm for filmmaking is an inspiration, and I look forward to his next low-budget outing.

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  mamasan8 months, 2 weeks ago

  I have been to his winery before.

  It is really neat. He has his Acadeny Awards on display and other props and things from his movies.

  The building is amazing.

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  shead8 months, 1 week ago

  This all reminds me of the amazing fact that I still haven't seen "Heart of Darkness."

  Someday... someday..

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  Ghitichote2 months, 2 weeks ago

  great post.

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