A packed house honored the Grateful Dead, director Francis Ford Coppola, jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt. The venerable Harlem theater The Apollo also was recognized.
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‘The movie tells you how to make it’: After decades, Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ is here
“Every movie I make involves passion,” writer and director Francis Ford Coppola says. “The Godfather is very classical. Apocalypse Now is very wild.” His latest, Megalopolis, is a Roman epic – set in New Rome, a futuristic New York City.
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Whatever you’ve heard about ‘Megalopolis,’ see this gutsy Coppola film for yourself
Francis Ford Coppola’s epic draws parallels between the U.S. and ancient Rome. Forty-some years in the making, it’s got wild sex, startling violence, horse-drawn chariots and even nightclub unicorns.
