Trailer!: Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro

POSTED: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 8:39 PM

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While I was initially a fan of Vincent Gallo's (I picked up Buffalo '66 at a video store when I was waaaay too young to see it but enjoyed it nonetheless), upon further exploration, he's turned me off (uh, Brown Bunny, those weird vodka ads where he looks gaunt and creepy). But I think he's perfect for Tetro ' where he plays a write who skips off to Buenos Aires after a promising start and subsequent fall from grace. But here's what I'm really jazzed about: Francis Ford. Coppola has returned to the small, taut filmmaking that made movies like The Conversation thrilling to watch. In a biting and hilarious piece in the New York Times, Manohla "Movie Killer, and more power to her" Dargis and A.O. "Love of my life" Scott write memos to Hollywood about what they want (and don't want) to see. One of the memos is to Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, asking them to return to the intimate filmmaking that made them the Brat Pack of Hollywood in the '70s. Coppola has already taken this lead and while his first foray into cheap filmmaking, Youth Without Youth, was a misstep Tetro looks like a film about family (Coppola's pretty good at those, no?) minus all of the unnecessary I'magreatfilmmakerlookatmelookatmelookatme pretensions.

Also, look out for the great Maribel Verd', who simply owned Y Tu Mama Tambien and Pan's Labyrinth.

Anna Verna

Posted 2009-05-05 16:11:32

quie clever of you.

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