I was there at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood for the Red Carpet Opening of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Coppola and his family were there as well as many more stars and yup, all the freaks were out as well.

Although we did meet some really hot babes that thought they were vampires!

>> ^BoneyD:
If Spock spends the movie 'exploring his emotions', I'm gonna crap a brick. But I just BET Abrams can't help himself.
Yeah yeah sure, I know about pon'farr... this should not be used as a defining characteristic of Spock's character in a film. It is a mere facet of his being and I hope J.J has more talent than to cling to this for dramatic effect.


Has anyone else noticed that we seem to be in the thrall of fanboy directors these days? I can think of JJ Abrams and Zack Synder for a start and I bet there are more coming. Guys who are obsessive about the detail of making a film and the script but can't actually make anything with emotional depth or substance? They're going to make Tarantino (their lord and master) look like Francis Ford Coppola.

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>> ^ant:
Is it me or is the audio very low?


definitely need headphones for this. (which brings up a good point -- when i'm surfing youtube videos or video sift videos, there's never a good balance of the audio. So, you could be watching one video with low volume, where you need to put the volume all the way up, and then watch another video with good volume, but blow out your speakers -- and ears -- because you had it turned up from the previous video. This is a problem that needs fixing, and it's not just teaching people how to balance the audio of the videos they're posting.)

Akira Kurosawa

Alfred Hitchcock

Steven Spielberg

Sergio Leone

Francis Ford Coppola

Orson Welles.

Clint Eastwood is a fantastic Director and while he made the greatest western of all time he does not have a prolific number of hits.

1. Welles
2. Coppola
3. Spielberg
4. Scorsese
5. Kubrick

Honorable Mention:

David Fincher
Brad Bird / Pixar team
Clint Eastwood
Quentin Tarantino

1. Kurosawa
2. Scorsese
3. Alexander Payne
4. Welles
5. Coen Brothers

Honorable Mention:

6. Francis Ford Coppola - Sure, his later work sucked, but anyone who made The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, AND Apocalypse Now deserves at least some sort of recognition, for crying out loud.

7. Sergio Leone - How could no one mention him? He did The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in The West, and Once Upon a Time in America. Show a little respect, capisce?

8. Steven Spielberg - Some people hate him, but he's given us a lot of good films.

9. John Waters - Hello? Why am I the only one to mention this genius?

10. Hitchcock - No explanation necessary.

1 - David Lynch
2 - Stanley Kubrick
3 - Alfred Hitchcck
4 - Francis Ford Coppola
5 - Wes Anderson

Wow, I like really boring stuff and am a dork.

Steven Spielberg
Brad Bird
Quintin Tarentino
Robert Rodriguez.


Some might say Francis Ford Coppola.
I would argue that George Lucas is not a bad director, but not top 5.
..Michael Bay..?

I'm going to make my list more difficult (or maybe easier, depending on your point of view) by limiting myself to current, contemporary, living persons. This removes obvious picks like Kubrick, Welles, Kurosawa and Hitchcock who would otherwise be at the top. Here's my list, in no particular order:

1) The Coens - plural I know, but you can't have one without the other. These brothers have produced masterpieces in every genre they've attempted. Crime, drama, comedy, mobsters, whatever. Always entertaining and very deserving of their recent Oscar.
2) Paul Thomas Anderson. A not terribly prolific director, but a thoughtful one. One of the few whose movies you must attend in the theatre simply because HE made it!
3) Wes Anderson- You can count on Wes for taking you to a place you've never been before, and no matter how fucked up your family may seem to you, the families portrayed in a Wes Anderson film are more disturbed and dysfunctional. Not to say that they're not loving and well-intentioned, just misguided.
4) Clint Eastwood- He has become a master of his craft. Few others will take the time to luxuriate in a scene like Eastwood. His long cuts and deliberate pacing show a respect for the intelligence and attention span of his audience.
5) Martin Scorsese- of all the great Directors born in the new Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1970s, only Scorsese remains at the top of his game. Others such as Spielberg, Lucas (ugh), Coppola, Friedkin etcetera have left their best work in the distant past.

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Coppola ? omg...

Is it me or do the bad guys and queen look just like the borg and the borg queen from Trek ?

This is an amazing scene, but it loses some of its lustre because Sofia Coppola is so epically horrible as Mary Corleone, you can't help but feel a bit of relief when she dies (because you won't have to see her attempt to act any more). I think she's an amazing director, but I just wish she had discovered that before she ruined the Godfather III.

>> ^Trancecoach:
not much of a prediction. This was obviously going to happen once VHS came to town (all but the fat girl reference, that is, which I think was a projection anyway).

Yes, camcorders have been accessible for a long time. I'd say that it wasn't at all obvious what the distribution model would be. Coppola's prediction has more to do with what content would become popular, and on that point I think we can agree that he ate his words.