Francis Ford Coppola

Telluride Film Festival 2013: A Wrap-Up

Val Kilmer Tells Us Why the World Needs Another Mark Twain Solo Show

Taverna dei Fori Imperiali: When in Rome, Dining with Movie Stars Astronauts

One of traditional decorating elements in Roman trattorias (besides the red and white checked tablecloths, uncomfortable chairs and over bright lighting) are framed photographs of "celebrity" clients. These can often date back decades and whether or not you recognize the face in the frame, it's kind ... More >>

Charlie Sheen Is Winning with Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

Sheen's new film, made with childhood friend Roman Coppola, was his first acting gig after his notorious meltdown

Icons & Legends: The Photography of Michael Childers,

From Punks to Mobsters: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special-event movies to see: Thursday, January 3 A Vincente Minnelli double feature courtesy of the Aero: The Band Wagon and Meet Me in ... More >>

From Abe to Aliens: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

This week's list of special event movies ranges from a James Cameron classic to Henry Fonda's take on the 16th president.

On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s

Checking in on Francis Ford Coppola's New Italian Hotel: Palazzo Margherita, Basilicata A Pasta-Making Video

Getting the right people to run things in a new restaurant or hotel is key. And when you've got a world-famous director running things, you can bet he's gonna get his casting right the first time around. Francis Ford Coppola is no newbie to the hotel biz. His exotic resorts in Belize, Guatemala and ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Nightmares, Satantango and Tati

Woody Allen's New Orleans Jazz Band - Royce Hall - 12/29/11

Christina Limson O'Connell​ Woody Allen's New Orleans Jazz Band Royce Hall 12/29/11 Better than...Francis Ford Coppola playing the tuba. Before the start of the European tour documented in the 1997 Woody Allen documentary Wild Man Blues, Allen tells his bandmates, "Theoretically this should ... More >>

Toronto International Film Festival: A Fest Without a Frontrunner

Handicapping the Oscars out of Toronto won't work this year

Toronto Film Festival Preview: 10 Must-See Films

Brad Pitt in Moneyball​ The Toronto Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, offering the usual mix of Oscar bait, new films from foreign and experimental masters, and basically every conceivable thing in between. With the caveat that the lineup, hundreds of films strong, could not possibly be tackle ... More >>

San Diego Comic-Con Announces Saturday, July 23 Schedule: Steampunk, Adventure Time, The Last Airbender, Robert Kirkman and More

Shannon CottrellSteampunk at San Diego Comic-Con 2010​More in "San Diego Comic-Con Announces Thursday July 21 Schedule: Bruce Campbell, Yoshiki, Stan Lee, Mike Judge and More." and "San Diego Comic-Con Announces Friday, July 22 Schedule: Doc Hammer, Jackson Publick, Chris Elliott, Wil Wheaton, ... More >>

Sofia Coppola: Lost at the Chateau Marmont

From party girl to Oscar winner, a journey to the stripped-down Somewhere

Cahiers du Cinema: The New Wave in a New World

Legendary French film mag brings its auteurist project to the States via a new book imprint

Meet Your New Wine Critic: Robert De Niro

​And the Oscar for Best Wine goes to....As Academy Awards' speeches go, the one given by Robert De Niro on Saturday night stands head and shoulders above the rest. Oenaphiles, sommeliers and vignerons in particular should take note: there's a new wine critic in town. "You talkin' to me?" Presenti ... More >>

Day Tripping on the Tom Waits Bus Tour of Los Angeles

​"Most of the stops on this tour are in piss-stained alleys," chuckled David Smay, as a motley--if well-dressed--crew of 47 settled themselves on his bus, which this past Saturday was parked outside King Eddy's--the only dive bar left "on the nickel" in downtown's increasingly gentrified Skid ... More >>

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 graphi ... More >>

Tetro: Coppola’s Family Business

Papa returns, successfully, to the clan

Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation

Tetro director talks film (it's over), critics (they can be lazy), and marriage (it's tough to be his wife)

Dreaming in Film: At Cannes and Its Renegade Festivals

Where the best movies aren't necessarily the ones in the competition

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, East ... More >>

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

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

Some Alternative Cannes Awards

Che wins the only Cannes prize that really matters: ours

Continuity Is For Sissies

Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie

The Last Movie: Continuity Is for Sissies

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

Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinvention

Could tracking technology save the Hollywood dreams of a former golden boy?

Youth Without Youth: Those Were the Days

Coppola romanticizes his source material in this not entirely terrible offering

Can You Give Us a Moment?

Down the Rabbit Hole

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

Stars Get Caught in Hirsch’s Hornet’s Nest

Names drop and accusations fly as Barry goes to trial

Heavenly Creatures

Hirsch’s Hornet’s Nest

Éminence grise of Hollywood lawyers provokes pain in parting

Pale Fire

The quiet determination of Sofia Coppola

American Idols: Director Jack Hill, Grindhouse Guru

Eyes Half Closed

Novelist Michael Ondaatje and film editor Walter Murch talk Coppola, Lucas and the problems that make the movies

Redux Deluxe

The Apocalypse Now DVD that might have been

Pure War

The Last Movie

Apocalypse Now Redux

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

Wounds That Heal

Art and history at the 54th Cannes film festival

A Vine Afternoon

Winetasting on the Urban Edge

Girls, Interrupted

Debuts from Sofia Coppola and Gina Prince-Bythewood

The Auteur as Gearhead

Notes on the digital video revolution, Part One

The Filmmakers

The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Turns 5

The Balding Soprano

From antipasto to antidepressants: a Mafioso's midlife crises

1984 Timeline

Moby Dick (the Next Generation)

Patrick Stewart does Captain Ahab