Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope
Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope
December 3, 2021–February 27, 2022
Fifty years after the founding of American Zoetrope, we celebrate the studio and its co-creator, Francis Ford Coppola. Along with Coppola’s works, the series features films by George Lucas, Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, and more.
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One from the Heart
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The Cotton Club Encore
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The Outsiders: The Complete Novel
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
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Every Man for Himself
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Kagemusha
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Films
The Rain People
Francis Ford Coppola
United States, 19694K Digital Restoration
Friday, December 3 7 PMView DetailsA disaffected Long Island housewife ditches her man, hits the road, and never stops heading west in Francis Ford Coppola’s striking early work, described as a female Easy Rider with a loose energy that recalls the French New Wave.
Every Man for Himself
Jean-Luc Godard
France, Switzerland, 1980Wednesday, December 8 7 PMView DetailsThis achingly lyrical film—“a stunning, original work”—about the selling of the self revolves around three characters: a filmmaker, his estranged partner, and a prostitute.
One from the Heart
Francis Ford Coppola
United States, 1982Restored 35mm Print
Saturday, December 11 3:30 PMView DetailsFrederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia, and Nastassja Kinski float through an even more artificial version of Las Vegas in Francis Ford Coppola’s lavishly surreal, giddily romantic valentine to a cinema of pure attractions.
Passion
Jean-Luc Godard
France, 1982BAMPFA Collection
Wednesday, December 15 7 PMView DetailsTwo directors create a film based on tableaux vivants of famous paintings, but they find the true stories beyond the frames in Jean-Luc Godard’s essay on labor, love, and capital.
The Cotton Club Encore
Francis Ford Coppola
United States, 1984/20194K Digital Restoration
Saturday, December 18 3:30 PMRichard Beggs in PersonView DetailsThis newly recut, restored version of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1984 vision of 1930s America brings new rhythm and nuance to the tale, reinstating many of the musical numbers and secondary stories that were cut from the original release.
Dementia 13
Francis Ford Coppola
United States, 19634K Digital Restoration
Friday, January 7 7 PMIntroduced by James MockoskiView DetailsAn unwelcome visitor finds herself in the dank manse of a family haunted by its secrets in Francis Ford Coppola’s atmospheric tale of terror, produced and financed by exploitation guru Roger Corman.
American Graffiti
George Lucas
United States, 1973Thursday, January 13 7 PMView DetailsGeorge Lucas’s classic of boomer nostalgia follows the teens of a small Northern California town through one long summer night. With Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, and Harrison Ford among the cast, it’s “the film that launched a thousand careers” (Hollywood Reporter).
The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola
United States, 1974New 35mm Print
Wednesday, January 19 7 PMView DetailsGene Hackman plays a crack wiretapper in over his head in Francis Ford Coppola’s formalist exercise in paranoia, a grand prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival set in a 1970s San Francisco where—much like today—privacy is elusive and technology can work both for you and against you.
Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
Francis Ford Coppola
United States, 1979/20194K Digital Restoration
Thursday, January 27 7 PMView DetailsFrancis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory Vietnam War epic, one of AFI’s Top 100 Films of All Time, returns in a new cut, a remix of newly discovered soundtrack masters and a 4K restoration from the original negative.
Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa
Japan, 1980BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Thursday, February 3 7 PMView DetailsGeorge Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola helped produce Akira Kurosawa’s return to epic filmmaking, a “majestic, stately, cool, almost abstract” film about a king and his double (both played by Tatsuya Nakadai) trying to hold a kingdom together (New York Times).
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Paul Schrader
United States, 1985New Digital Restoration
Friday, February 11 7 PMView DetailsPaul Schrader’s riveting docu-fiction about the life and death of Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima is “one of the most gorgeous and sophisticated portraits of an artist ever put on film” (New Yorker).
The Outsiders: The Complete Novel
Francis Ford Coppola
United States, 1983/20054K Digital Restoration
Sunday, February 13 2 PMView DetailsTwo groups of rival teens—a cast of soon-to-be Hollywood heartthrobs, including Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, and Rob Lowe—rumble in a dead-end Southwestern town in Francis Ford Coppola’s cult classic.
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola
United States, 1991Saturday, February 19 1 PMEleanor Coppola in PersonView DetailsWatch as Francis Ford Coppola and crew storm and blunder through the Philippines during the making of Apocalypse Now. This documentary, crafted from Eleanor Coppola’s home movies, is a work of “fascinating, harrowing film history” (Roger Ebert).
The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola
United States, 1974New 35mm Print
Sunday, February 20 2 PMView DetailsGene Hackman plays a crack wiretapper in over his head in Francis Ford Coppola’s formalist exercise in paranoia, a grand prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival set in a 1970s San Francisco where—much like today—privacy is elusive and technology can work both for you and against you.
Rumble Fish
Francis Ford Coppola
United States, 19834K Digital Restoration
Sunday, February 27 5 PMView DetailsMatt Dillon is a teenager under the spell of his jaded older brother (Mickey Rourke) and beaten-down father (Dennis Hopper) in Francis Ford Coppola’s version of a teen movie, “an exercise in hallucinatory style” (Richard Corliss).