Since his earliest days making films, Francis Ford Coppola has been willing to risk it all — his reputation, perhaps even his sanity and certainly his finances — to make a project come to life. In his ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. At one point in “Megadoc,” a documentary about the production of Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious, self-financed ...

When Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” opened in theaters last September, the dystopian epic baffled audiences and earned the filmmaker a Razzie Award for worst director. Now, “Megadoc,” a new ...

Does Francis Ford Coppola thrive on chaos? Not exactly, the director claims in the new trailer for Megadoc, Mike Figgis’ behind-the-scenes documentary on the tumultuous making of Coppola’s 2024 film ...

Francis Ford Coppola is 86 years old, or “fifty-thirty-six,” he told the audience at the Tomorrow Theater, as he wants to die in his 50s (may he reach fifty-fifty). He remembers a time before websites ...

Mike Figgis has made some big movies in his time, but nothing on the scale of Megalopolis, the $120 million Francis Ford Coppola fantasia - or, if you prefer, fiasco - that the legendary director self ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Francis Ford Coppola had a plan—or seemed to have one, at least. When the famed director of The Godfather walked onto the stage of San Francisco’s Palace of Fine ...

“I have a tendency to wander,” Francis Ford Coppola said, mid-anecdote. An audience member had asked about the iconic director’s approach to history. Coppola’s initial answer remembered his father, a ...

At one point in “Megadoc,” a documentary about the production of Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious, self-financed “Megalopolis,” director Mike Figgis offers to his camera that all the best films about ...