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Youth Without Youth, Tetro, Twixt—years could pass without us hearing the titles of these Francis Ford Coppola movies. These digitally-shot, classically-infused “late era” films excited, baffled, and irritated 21st century audiences in equal measure, but are too readily dismissed as a bad couple...
Youth Without Youth, Tetro, Twixt—years could pass without us hearing the titles of these Francis Ford Coppola movies. These digitally-shot, classically-infused “late era” films excited, baffled, and irritated 21st century audiences in equal measure, but are too readily dismissed as a bad couple...
- 5/20/2024
- by Rory Doherty
- avclub.com
When most cinephiles think of Francis Ford Coppola, they think of his miracle run in the 1970s. During that decade, he directed four films, all of them five-star masterpieces: The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather, Part II, and Apocalypse Now. Or they think of embarrassments from his for-hire period, including the Robin Williams weepy Jack. Yet those five films hardly encapsulate the entire career of Francis Ford Coppola, which will likely end with the upcoming Megalopolis. Instead the best indication of Coppola as an artist and filmmaker might be found in the most recent movies he’s made, with Coppola having released three self-produced and self-financed pictures every two years between 2007 and 2011: Youth Without Youth, Twixt, and Tetro.
Although they vary in quality, and none top his work from the ’70s, this independent trio captures the experimental and romantic heart that lies at the center of Coppola’s overall oeuvre.
Although they vary in quality, and none top his work from the ’70s, this independent trio captures the experimental and romantic heart that lies at the center of Coppola’s overall oeuvre.
- 5/14/2024
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) is showing from February 14 - March 16, 2018 in many countries around the world. This is a revised English translation of an article originally published by Seance magazine, July 24, 2014.Every genuinely shamanic séance ends as a spectacle unequaled in the world of daily experience. The fire-tricks, the “miracle” of the rope-trick or mango-trick type, the exhibition of magical feats, reveal another world—the fabulous world of the gods and magicians, the world in which everything seems possible… where the “laws of nature” are abolished and a certain superhuman “freedom” is exemplified and made dazzlingly present.—Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of EcstasyThe snakeskin jacket that Sailor, the protagonist of Wild at Heart (1990), wears at all times as (in his own words) a symbol of his individuality and belief in personal freedom came from Nicolas Cage’s own wardrobe. If I had to describe the phenomenon of Cage in one sentence,...
- 2/18/2018
- MUBI
Think of the paintings of Lucy Dodd as very, very low-relief earthworks along the lines of Robert Smithson’s or Michael Heizer’s. By making massive material processes and natural phenomena almost one-dimensional, Dodd's work widens the senses, makes the cosmic thickening visible, and uncrumples something fundamental. Although just looking at (or sometimes smelling) her large begrimed art is exhilarating enough, I wanted to run my tongue on a couple of the paintings that the David Lewis Gallery checklist says contain leaf extract, wild walnut, yew berries, liquid smoke, and flower essence. Other works include nettles, black lichen, saliva, iron oxide, charcoal, and dog urine. Some have fermenting smells; one seems to be darkening before our eyes. In this way, Dodd's paintings become two-dimensional animals with inbuilt chemistries, going through secret artistic caramelizations and painterly photosynthesis, converting liquids and semisolids into bliss. Mircea Eliade defined shamanism as "techniques of ecstasy.
- 12/3/2013
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
Above: Birdsong.
At the outset of Albert Serra's Birdsong (2008), the Three Wise Men, caught in a sudden rainstorm and retreating into a cave to wait it out peruse the boulders around them. One of the Magi declares, “If you look close enough, you can see a lot of things. Sometimes what we see is so beautiful it petrifies us,” perfectly, if unwittingly, encapsulating the director’s method of operation. As the trio literally dissolves into a backdrop of majestic landscapes, the Biblical plot also withdraws from the foreground: a maneuver not unfamiliar to those who have seen Serra’s previous feature, Quixotic/Honor de Cavelleria (2006), a less than faithful adaptation of de Cervantes's Don Quixote. Calling it an adaptation, however, should be taken with a grain of salt insofar as Serra deliberately emptied the canonical chivalric novel of all its contents save the two lonely souls at its core,...
At the outset of Albert Serra's Birdsong (2008), the Three Wise Men, caught in a sudden rainstorm and retreating into a cave to wait it out peruse the boulders around them. One of the Magi declares, “If you look close enough, you can see a lot of things. Sometimes what we see is so beautiful it petrifies us,” perfectly, if unwittingly, encapsulating the director’s method of operation. As the trio literally dissolves into a backdrop of majestic landscapes, the Biblical plot also withdraws from the foreground: a maneuver not unfamiliar to those who have seen Serra’s previous feature, Quixotic/Honor de Cavelleria (2006), a less than faithful adaptation of de Cervantes's Don Quixote. Calling it an adaptation, however, should be taken with a grain of salt insofar as Serra deliberately emptied the canonical chivalric novel of all its contents save the two lonely souls at its core,...
- 10/24/2013
- by Vladimir Lukin
- MUBI
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Based on a manga series going back many years, this product from the studio that did the animated section of Tarantino's Kill Bill is about a team of international cyborgs created to guard the world, who are reconstituted when a host of suicide bombers start attacking skyscrapers around the globe. What impels them to do so is the mysterious "His Voice", a biblical figure who might be God or something implanted in the brain over many centuries by the combined forces of institutionalised religion. There are some good sequences (most strikingly, a finale in Venice), but it's overlong and, for an animated film, there's too much windy philosophical talk of an ontological kind, dropping the names of Freud and the religious historian Mircea Eliade.
AnimationScience fiction and fantasyPhilip French
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Based on a manga series going back many years, this product from the studio that did the animated section of Tarantino's Kill Bill is about a team of international cyborgs created to guard the world, who are reconstituted when a host of suicide bombers start attacking skyscrapers around the globe. What impels them to do so is the mysterious "His Voice", a biblical figure who might be God or something implanted in the brain over many centuries by the combined forces of institutionalised religion. There are some good sequences (most strikingly, a finale in Venice), but it's overlong and, for an animated film, there's too much windy philosophical talk of an ontological kind, dropping the names of Freud and the religious historian Mircea Eliade.
AnimationScience fiction and fantasyPhilip French
guardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
- 6/8/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Following our looks at actors, actresses, screenwriters and directors to watch in recent months, when the time came to put together a list of cinematographers (as we did two years ago), we went in with an open mind. But what was interesting is realizing, after the fact, that in an era where 35mm film is allegedly being phased out, that all five have done perhaps their most distinctive work on old-fashioned celluloid, rather than digital.
All have worked in digital of course, at least in the commercial world, and some have done hugely impressive work on new formats. But most of our five are fierce advocates for good 'ol 35mm, and it's another sign that the death knell shouldn't be rung for the old ways just yet. As long as there are talented DoPs like the ones below, and on the following pages, working closely with filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson,...
All have worked in digital of course, at least in the commercial world, and some have done hugely impressive work on new formats. But most of our five are fierce advocates for good 'ol 35mm, and it's another sign that the death knell shouldn't be rung for the old ways just yet. As long as there are talented DoPs like the ones below, and on the following pages, working closely with filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson,...
- 6/26/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Youth Without Youth is no longer just a novella by Romanian writer Mircea Eliade and an admirably misguided, late-period Francis Ford Coppola film. "Youth Without Youth" is also the first single from Synthetica, the new album from Canadian indie-rock band Metric due out June 12. You can hear a stream of the song below; also check out the dates for the band's tour, which kicks off in September. 09.06.12 - Water Street Music Hall - Rochester, NY 09.08.12 - The Fillmore - Detroit, Mi 09.09.12 - Madison Theatre - Covington, Ky 09.11.12 - State Theatre - Minneapolis, Mn ...
- 5/1/2012
- avclub.com
After breaking out with documentary films such as “Fanfaron, Fanfaron” and “Mascarade” and a few shorts - “Epava” (The Wreck), “Ziua incepe noaptea” (The day starts during the night), “Say Joe” – Cornel Gheorghiță finished his first feature film: Europolis, which was selected for the Montreal World Film Festival, where it will compete in the First Films World Competition."I’ve been asked many times to include the film into a genre: fantastic drama? a legend? a ballad? a folkloric myth? a fairy tale? The only thing I can say is that it’s fiction. Against today’s author cinema trending, against this hyper-realistic current, Europolis doesn’t wish to copy reality; the reality is just a starting point for a imaginative foray in human’s soul", declared the director. Gheorghiță’s film concentrates on Magdalena and her son named Nae. They live in a small port of Sulina, in East...
- 8/19/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
So, who is this Sophia chick, and why does she want to have tantric sex with the planet? Is this some sort of weird green porno? John Lamb Lash is one of the foremost exponents of the power of myth to direct and shape an individual’s life, as well as history itself. Described as the true successor of Mircea Eliade, John is a lifelong student of world mythology, Tantra, the pre-Christian Mysteries, Alchemy, and naked-eye astronomy. His published works include, Not In His Image, The Seekers Handbook: The Complete Guide to Spiritual Pathfinding, Twins and the Double, The Hero - Manhood and Power, and Quest for the Zodiac, John has lectured widely in the United States and Europe. Okay, snark off.
- 9/8/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Eleanor Coppola's documentary Coda: Thirty Years After, chronicling her husband Francis' journey directing his latest film Youth Without Youth, is set to premiere Dec. 9 on Starz Cinema.
The film, Coppola's second docu based on her husband's work, also will be included in the new DVD release Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, being released Tuesday by Paramount Home Entertainment. That film documented Coppola's challenges when filming Apocalypse Now.
In addition to production footage from Youth -- Francis Ford Coppola's first film in 10 years -- Coda also includes footage from his first short film No Cigar, behind-the-scenes footage from 1969's The Rain People and 1974's The Conversation and family home movies.
Based on the novella by Mircea Eliade, Youth Without Youth stars Tim Roth as an elderly professor who, after being struck by lightning, miraculously returns to his youth with a new chance to continue his life's work and rediscover lost love. The film also stars Bruno Ganz and Alexandra Maria Lara.
The film, Coppola's second docu based on her husband's work, also will be included in the new DVD release Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, being released Tuesday by Paramount Home Entertainment. That film documented Coppola's challenges when filming Apocalypse Now.
In addition to production footage from Youth -- Francis Ford Coppola's first film in 10 years -- Coda also includes footage from his first short film No Cigar, behind-the-scenes footage from 1969's The Rain People and 1974's The Conversation and family home movies.
Based on the novella by Mircea Eliade, Youth Without Youth stars Tim Roth as an elderly professor who, after being struck by lightning, miraculously returns to his youth with a new chance to continue his life's work and rediscover lost love. The film also stars Bruno Ganz and Alexandra Maria Lara.
- 11/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- It has been 10 years since Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola last worked behind the camera, but high expectations for his new feature Youth Without Youth, which screened Sunday at the RomaCinemaFest, are dashed as it proves to be a muddled fantasy about the transmigration of souls.
Handsomely made on a low budget, the film has the polished look of a Coppola film with expert contributions from some master craftsmen. But the story is full of arcane references that many will find nonsensical, and the performances are a letdown. Lacking coherence and suspense, the picture is likely to attract a cult following while disappointing Coppola's fan base.
Tim Roth plays an elderly linguistics scholar who is struck by lightning and not only begins to grow younger but also can master languages he never knew. Beginning in Bucharest, Romania, in 1938, the story has Nazi spies, fascists and a beautiful young woman who also is struck by lightning. She, however, is turned into a seventh century disciple of Chandrakirti who can speak ancient tongues and starts aging at a furious rate.
The far-fetched tale relates the strange events that overtake 70-year-old Dominic Roth) after he is struck by lightning while planning suicide. Delighted to learn that he is getting younger, he is troubled to discover he has a double that materializes with evil intent. Dominic is further alarmed by the attentions of a sexy Nazi spy known only as the Woman in Room 6 (Alexandra Pirici) and the evil Dr. Josef Rudolf (Andre M. Hennicke) who employs her.
Fleeing to Switzerland, the scholar survives World War II and continues his work until one day he encounters two young women who soon afterward run their car off the road in a storm. One of them, Veronica Alexandra Maria Lara), survives, but having been struck by lightning she now speaks Sanskrit and calls herself Rupini.
Eventually Veronica re-emerges as herself, but Dominic not only believes she is Rupini reincarnated but he also falls in love with her. As he is getting younger by the day while she gets older, something has to give. Not to mention the meddlesome double.
Coppola's screenplay lurches from one extreme to the next, while as director he indulges unexceptional acting. Roth fails to establish Dominic as a vital character. His best screen outings are when he's animated by villainy, but here his doleful countenance sinks into the scholar's passive vulnerability.
Coppola is clearly captivated by the mystical contemplations of Romanian author Mircea Eliade, upon whose novella the film is based, but his fascination hasn't translated into a fascinating motion picture. Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. uses a static camera to capture production designer Calin Papura's atmospheric sets, while editor Walter Murch assembles it all with typical skill.
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH
Sony Pictures Classics
American Zoetrope presents a SRG Atelier, Pricel and BIM Dsistribuzione production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director-producer: Frances Ford Coppola
Based on the novella by: Mircea Eliade
Executive producers: Anahid Nazarian, Fred Roos
Director of photography: Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Production designer: Calin Papura
Music: Osvaldo Golijov
Costume designer: Gloria Papura
Editor: Walter Murch
Cast:
Dominic: Tim Roth
Veronica/ Laura/Rupini: Alexandra Maria Lara
Professor Stanciulescu: Bruno Ganz
Woman in Room 6: Alexandra Pirici
Dr. Josef Rudolf: Andre M. Hennicke
Professor Tucci: Marcel Inures
Pandit: Adrian Pintea
Dr. Gavrila: Florin Piersic Jr.
Dr. Chirila: Zoltan Butuc
Anetta: Adriana Titieni
Running time -- 124 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Handsomely made on a low budget, the film has the polished look of a Coppola film with expert contributions from some master craftsmen. But the story is full of arcane references that many will find nonsensical, and the performances are a letdown. Lacking coherence and suspense, the picture is likely to attract a cult following while disappointing Coppola's fan base.
Tim Roth plays an elderly linguistics scholar who is struck by lightning and not only begins to grow younger but also can master languages he never knew. Beginning in Bucharest, Romania, in 1938, the story has Nazi spies, fascists and a beautiful young woman who also is struck by lightning. She, however, is turned into a seventh century disciple of Chandrakirti who can speak ancient tongues and starts aging at a furious rate.
The far-fetched tale relates the strange events that overtake 70-year-old Dominic Roth) after he is struck by lightning while planning suicide. Delighted to learn that he is getting younger, he is troubled to discover he has a double that materializes with evil intent. Dominic is further alarmed by the attentions of a sexy Nazi spy known only as the Woman in Room 6 (Alexandra Pirici) and the evil Dr. Josef Rudolf (Andre M. Hennicke) who employs her.
Fleeing to Switzerland, the scholar survives World War II and continues his work until one day he encounters two young women who soon afterward run their car off the road in a storm. One of them, Veronica Alexandra Maria Lara), survives, but having been struck by lightning she now speaks Sanskrit and calls herself Rupini.
Eventually Veronica re-emerges as herself, but Dominic not only believes she is Rupini reincarnated but he also falls in love with her. As he is getting younger by the day while she gets older, something has to give. Not to mention the meddlesome double.
Coppola's screenplay lurches from one extreme to the next, while as director he indulges unexceptional acting. Roth fails to establish Dominic as a vital character. His best screen outings are when he's animated by villainy, but here his doleful countenance sinks into the scholar's passive vulnerability.
Coppola is clearly captivated by the mystical contemplations of Romanian author Mircea Eliade, upon whose novella the film is based, but his fascination hasn't translated into a fascinating motion picture. Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. uses a static camera to capture production designer Calin Papura's atmospheric sets, while editor Walter Murch assembles it all with typical skill.
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH
Sony Pictures Classics
American Zoetrope presents a SRG Atelier, Pricel and BIM Dsistribuzione production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director-producer: Frances Ford Coppola
Based on the novella by: Mircea Eliade
Executive producers: Anahid Nazarian, Fred Roos
Director of photography: Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Production designer: Calin Papura
Music: Osvaldo Golijov
Costume designer: Gloria Papura
Editor: Walter Murch
Cast:
Dominic: Tim Roth
Veronica/ Laura/Rupini: Alexandra Maria Lara
Professor Stanciulescu: Bruno Ganz
Woman in Room 6: Alexandra Pirici
Dr. Josef Rudolf: Andre M. Hennicke
Professor Tucci: Marcel Inures
Pandit: Adrian Pintea
Dr. Gavrila: Florin Piersic Jr.
Dr. Chirila: Zoltan Butuc
Anetta: Adriana Titieni
Running time -- 124 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 10/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Perhaps Italians do it better and this is why fellow countryman Francis Ford Coppola will premiere his Romanian-shot Youth Without Youth in an unspecified slot at RomeFilmFest's second edition. The fest runs between Oct. 18-27 and if Coppola decides to preem his film here then that means that the fest has quickly become an important player on the fest circuit.Featuring the international cast of Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara and Bruno Ganz, this is based on the novella by Romanian author and intellectual Mircea Eliade. This stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, an elderly professor whose mysterious rejuvenation heightens his intelligence and whose apparent immortality makes him a target for the Nazis in this World War II-era parable. Becoming a fugitive, he is pursued through far-flung locations including Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India....
- 5/11/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth, the helmer's first feature film effort in 10 years, will have its world premiere at the RomaCinemaFest, sales agent Pathe Pictures International announced Thursday.
Starring Tim Roth as an elderly professor whose apparent immortality makes him a target of the Nazis, the World War II-set tale was filmed in Romania. Coppola also wrote the screenplay, which is adapted from the novella by author Mircea Eliade.
"This film represents a new period in my career, where I intend to make only personal films," Coppola said. "I look forward to showing it at this new festival in Italy, whose great masters such as Rossellini, Fellini, Visconti, Pasolini and Antonioni inspired my early career."
Youth, Coppola's first film since 1997's The Rainmaker, also stars Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Pirici, Marcel Iures and Andre Hennicke.
The second annual RomaCinemaFest runs Oct. 18-27.
Starring Tim Roth as an elderly professor whose apparent immortality makes him a target of the Nazis, the World War II-set tale was filmed in Romania. Coppola also wrote the screenplay, which is adapted from the novella by author Mircea Eliade.
"This film represents a new period in my career, where I intend to make only personal films," Coppola said. "I look forward to showing it at this new festival in Italy, whose great masters such as Rossellini, Fellini, Visconti, Pasolini and Antonioni inspired my early career."
Youth, Coppola's first film since 1997's The Rainmaker, also stars Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Pirici, Marcel Iures and Andre Hennicke.
The second annual RomaCinemaFest runs Oct. 18-27.
- 5/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- We’ve been wondering out loud for a while now who would distrbute Francis Ford Coppola’s newest project. Wonder no more. Today, Sony Pictures Classics that they’ve acquired Youth Without Youth for a Fall 2007 release. Based on the novella by Romanian author and intellectual Mircea Eliade. This stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, an elderly professor whose mysterious rejuvenation heightens his intelligence and whose apparent immortality makes him a target for the Nazis in this World War II-era parable. Becoming a fugitive, he is pursued through far-flung locations including Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India. The also stars Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Andre M. Hennicke, Marcel Iures, and introduces Alexandra Pirici. Son Roman Coppola directed the second unit. The move shows that Spc is flexing a little muscle – slightly more aggressive in finding material for their slate and on Coppola’s part, it announces that the filmmaker
- 3/23/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American distribution rights to Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth, the director's first film since 1997's The Rainmaker. A late fall release is planned.
Coppola wrote, directed, and produced the film, adapting the screenplay from a novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade. A parable set in World War II, the film stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, an elderly professor whose mysterious rejuvenation heightens his intelligence and whose apparent immortality makes him a target for the Nazis. "It is a love story wrapped in a mystery," Coppola said.
The film also stars Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Andre M. Hennicke, Marcel Iures and introduces Alexandra Pirici.
The independently produced project was shot in Romania over 18 months. Walter Murch joined Coppola there to edit the film.
Said Coppola: "The story revolves around the key themes that I most hope to understand better: time, consciousness and the dreamlike basis of reality."
Added SPC co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard: " 'Youth Without Youth' is what we call a full meal, satisfying in all departments."...
Coppola wrote, directed, and produced the film, adapting the screenplay from a novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade. A parable set in World War II, the film stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, an elderly professor whose mysterious rejuvenation heightens his intelligence and whose apparent immortality makes him a target for the Nazis. "It is a love story wrapped in a mystery," Coppola said.
The film also stars Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Andre M. Hennicke, Marcel Iures and introduces Alexandra Pirici.
The independently produced project was shot in Romania over 18 months. Walter Murch joined Coppola there to edit the film.
Said Coppola: "The story revolves around the key themes that I most hope to understand better: time, consciousness and the dreamlike basis of reality."
Added SPC co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard: " 'Youth Without Youth' is what we call a full meal, satisfying in all departments."...
- 3/23/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola is still so obsessed with the themes that inspired him as a student, he has decided to explore them again in his first movie since 1997. Coppola, best known for the Godfather trilogy, hasn't made a film since The Rainmaker and now plans to shoot an adaptation of Youth Without Youth, a novel by Romanian author Mircea Eliade. According to industry magazine Variety, the low-budget production will be financed and written by Coppola alone. The movie will star Tim Roth and is set to begin filming in Bucharest, Romania, later this year. Coppola says, "I was so excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better: time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality. For me, it is indeed a return to the ambitions I had for work in cinema as a student."...
- 9/27/2005
- WENN
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