Francis Ford Coppola

From the Uncut archives: a tribute to the legendary director and producer

One (or rather, three) from the heart of Coppola’s American Zoetrope dream...Hammett was intended by Francis Ford Coppola to be one of his American Zoetrope studio’s first movies, a calling card for the Zoetrope vision and the American debut of German director Wim Wenders. In the event, the film, an homage to novelist Dashiell Hammett boasting a rare lead from Coppola regular Frederic Forrest, did become synonymous with the studio. Just not the way Coppola had hoped.

Coppola’s latest take on family tensions is self-indulgent but beguiling...

Flailing 'tapestry of illusion' from one of modern cinema's godfathers; Francis Ford Coppola