Jan
11
2010
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse is a documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. Coppola fired his lead actor after several weeks of shooting, his replacement lead actor had a heart attack half way through the 238-day shoot, hurricanes destroyed his sets, army helicopters were called away in the middle of [...]
Tags: 4 Star Movies, Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, Francis Ford Coppola, George Hickenlooper, Harrison Ford, Laurence Fishburne, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen
Mar
07
2009
I was never a huge fan of any of the Godfather movies until I watched the entire trilogy over the period of a week. (The Godfather – Part III is the dud of the series, infamously diminished by the casting of Sofia Coppola as Michael Corleone’s daughter. She can’t act. That’s not the only problem [...]
Tags: 4 Star Movies, Al Lettieri, al pacino, Diane Keaton, Francis Ford Coppola, G. D. Spradlin, Italian, James Caan, John Cazale, Lee Strasberg, Mafia, Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, Robert Duvall, Sicily, Sterling Hayden, Talia Shire