The Latest Breaking News from Francis Ford Coppola

Heat director joins Letterboxd and shares his 14 favorite movies – and, predictably, he has great taste

His picks include Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, and Yorgos Lanthimos

Total Film · Jul 4, 2024

The Conversation review – Gene Hackman is unforgettable in Coppola’s paranoid classic

Hackman’s surveillance expert Harry Caul is inexpressibly sad and lonely – a classic and poignant American everyman

The Guardian - UK · Jul 4, 2024

'Seven Samurai' at 70: Kurosawa's epic still moves like nothing else

Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year

The Independent UK · Jul 3, 2024

Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' will hit US theaters in September

After months of conjecture about the fate of Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed epic, “Megalopolis” has finally found a home

The Independent UK · Jun 17, 2024

13 times actors were fired from Hollywood movies: ‘The low point of my career’

THE LIST: The film industry is notoriously fickle – and that means that often directors aren’t afraid to unceremoniously ditch their actors. Katie Rosseinsky looks back at some high-profile Hollywood firings

The Independent UK · Jun 12, 2024

Albert Ruddy obituary

Canadian-American producer who won Oscars for the hit film classics The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby

The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2024

Francis Ford Coppola says he's 'too shy' to be 'touchy feely' after inappropriate behaviour accusations

The film director is alleged to have pulled women onto his lap and tried to kiss topless female extras 

Evening Standard · Jun 7, 2024

Francis Ford Coppola denies inappropriate behavior on Megalopolis set: ‘I’m not touchy-feely’

Reports had suggested the veteran director tried ‘to kiss some of the topless and scantily-clad female extras’

The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2024

‘It definitely got me a seat in therapy’: Diane Lane on child stardom, sleazy execs and thriving in her 50s

She was on the cover of Time magazine in her teens, and decades later the acclaimed actor is having another big moment. She discusses Feud, A Man in Full and the highs and lows of Hollywood

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2024

Mark Kermode on… David Cronenberg, master of gore as a metaphor for our deepest anxieties

From The Brood to Crash and new film The Shrouds, the Canadian body horror pioneer has outraged the censors and inspired countless directors

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2024