Comments on: Francis Ford Coppola’s YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH at the RomeFilmFest 2007 http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/coppola-youth-without-youth-romefilmfest-2007/ thinking film Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:59:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Andre Soares http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/coppola-youth-without-youth-romefilmfest-2007/#comment-232583 Andre Soares Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:39:03 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/coppola-youth-without-youth-romefilmfest-2007/#comment-232583 Hey, Marcus, I gotta admit that I actually liked -- very much -- Coppola's "Dracula." That was one of precious few instances when I felt that style made just about everything else in the film -- the poor acting, the poor screenplay -- nearly irrelevant. (Talk about focusing on form while ignoring content.) Hey, Marcus,

I gotta admit that I actually liked — very much — Coppola’s “Dracula.”

That was one of precious few instances when I felt that style made just about everything else in the film — the poor acting, the poor screenplay — nearly irrelevant. (Talk about focusing on form while ignoring content.)

]]> By: Marcus Tucker http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/coppola-youth-without-youth-romefilmfest-2007/#comment-230984 Marcus Tucker Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:17:05 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/coppola-youth-without-youth-romefilmfest-2007/#comment-230984 Francis Ford Coppola is so overrated, the only director more overrated than he is, is his daughter Sophia. There are so many more more brilliant directors out there why focus on someone who's last great triumph was in 1974. Some would call him selective but I say someone is still riding high on their prestige from two decades ago. Maybe if he got over himself he could make a decent film every now and then. Francis Ford Coppola is so overrated, the only director more overrated than he is, is his daughter Sophia. There are so many more more brilliant directors out there why focus on someone who’s last great triumph was in 1974. Some would call him selective but I say someone is still riding high on their prestige from two decades ago. Maybe if he got over himself he could make a decent film every now and then.

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