Subject: Francis Ford Coppola

• Redux Deluxe

  February 14, 2002

• American Idols: Director Jack Hill, Grindhouse Guru

  June 19, 2003

• Youth Without Youth: Those Were the Days

  Coppola romanticizes his source material in this not entirely terrible offering

  December 13, 2007

• Some Alternative Cannes Awards

  Che wins the only Cannes prize that really matters: ours

  May 29, 2008

• John Updike at the Movies

  Hollywood and John Updike, who died today at the age of 76, never made for the easiest of bedfellows. In 1970, the underrated director Jack Smight took an admirable stab at filming Rabbit, Run, the first in Updike's tetralogy of novels about the disaffected former high-school basketball star Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. But the flm was taken away from Smight by writer-producer Howard B. Kreitsek, recut, shelved by the studio (Warner Bros.) after unsuccessful test screenings, and ultimately dismissed

  January 27, 2009

• John Updike at the Movies

  Hollywood and John Updike, who died today at the age of 76, never made for the easiest of bedfellows. In 1970, the underrated director Jack Smight took an admirable stab at filming Rabbit, Run, the first in Updike's tetralogy of novels about the disaffected former high-school basketball star Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. But the flm was taken away from Smight by writer-producer Howard B. Kreitsek, recut, shelved by the studio (Warner Bros.) after unsuccessful test screenings, and ultimately dismissed

  January 27, 2009

• Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation

  June 4, 2009

• The Martini Doctor Is In: Manny Aguirre

  Bartender icon, whose bar-side manner has soothed generations of Hollywood's elite at Musso and Frank and beyond, turns 75

  March 5, 2009

• Mickey Rourke Returns as The Wrestler

  Year of the ram

  September 25, 2008

• Continuity Is For Sissies

  April 3, 2008

• The Last Movie: Continuity Is for Sissies

  Dennis Hopper's 1971 movie kicks off a 10-year-anniversary celebration of CineVegas

  April 3, 2008

• Pale Fire

  September 18, 2003

• Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinvention

  March 6, 2008

• The Never-ending Exploration

  Justin Beal likes his art open-ended

  January 10, 2008

• 17 Again: Zac Efron Shoots Wad, Scores!

  April 16, 2009

• Can You Give Us a Moment?

  August 16, 2007

• The Theresa Duncan Tragedy

  August 2, 2007

• Down the Rabbit Hole

  Spy love and betrayal in The Company, painful Hiroshima memories in White Light/Black Rain

  August 2, 2007

• Stars Get Caught in Hirsch’s Hornet’s Nest

  November 9, 2006

• The Secret Lives of Cheetahs

  Despite critical raves, Carroll Ballard’s Duma may go quietly into the night

  August 25, 2005

• Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain

  April 28, 2005

• Have They No Shame?

  January 27, 2005

• Umlautta Love

  December 9, 2004

• Heavenly Creatures

  September 9, 2004

• Hirsch’s Hornet’s Nest

  August 26, 2004

• All’s Well in the Shire

  December 18, 2003

• Letters

  October 2, 2003

• Eyes Half Closed

  September 26, 2002

• Letters

  March 7, 2002

• Pure War

  January 24, 2002

• In the Mood for Wong Kar-wai

  January 3, 2002

• The Last Movie

  August 9, 2001

• Homage to Catatonia

  July 12, 2001

• Wounds That Heal

  May 31, 2001

• Brief Encounters

  October 5, 2000

• The Divine Child

  June 8, 2000

• A Vine Afternoon

  June 1, 2000

• Girls, Interrupted

  April 27, 2000

• To Niche or Not To Niche

  February 10, 2000

• The Auteur as Gearhead

  November 11, 1999

• The Filmmakers

  April 22, 1999

• ''I'm Bullshitting as Fast as I Can''

  April 22, 1999

• The Balding Soprano

  January 28, 1999

• 1984 Timeline

  November 26, 1998

• Moby Dick (the Next Generation)

  March 19, 1998

• Today in Photographs: May 10, 1962

  Samuel Goldwyn presents a UCLA film-writing award named in his honor. The first-place recipient is Francis Ford Coppola, 23.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL CollectionClick image to englare

  May 10, 2009

• Dreaming in Film: At Cannes and Its Renegade Festivals

  May 21, 2009

• Up with Cannes, Coppola

  The best film to open the Cannes Film Festival in the seven years I've been attending, and just a lovely film all around, the Pixar studios' Up (which opens in wide release next Friday, May 29) suggests what Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino might have looked like if, instead of standing his ground, Eastwood's Walt Kowalski had simply attached a few thousand helium balloons to his ramshackle craftsman and lifted off into the atmosphere. That's precisely the course of action taken by Up's own cantanke

  May 21, 2009

• Tetro: Coppola’s Family Business

  June 11, 2009

• The Oscars: B-Movie King Gets A-List Award

  B-movie king and splatter-flick auteur Roger Corman is getting a lifetime achievement Academy Award, the Associate Press is reporting Wednesday.Roger Corman​The director and producer is behind hundreds of horror films, including Children of the Corn, Death Race 2000 and Piranha, that are so graphically over-the-top (and under most Hollywood budgets) that they've become cult favorites.The filmmaker said he was surprised that he'll get one of the industry's top honors, one that has been bestowed

  November 11, 2009