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(Lets just say I co-founded an arts magazine that lasted for precisely two issues.)
I then marveled as screening invites to major film releases started appearing in my mailbox.
and It was you, Fredo and chuckling smugly to ourselves.
You know: dorks.
And then we sawBram Stokers Dracula.
I did review the film, and in my review I speculated that the director had lost his mind.
But I also bought the soundtrack CD.
And when the laserdisc appeared, I bought that too.
There is just no way to position this movie.
Everyone is rooting for Francis and feels nostalgic.
But then there is the business side of things.
Its so not good, and it was so sad watching it.
Anybody who puts P&A behind it, youre going to lose money.
This is not how Coppola should end his directing career.
It does not live in the binary.
The fact that it exists is what is most important.
At the same time, the back-and-forth has been, Ill admit, kind of entertaining.
And it has a certain whiff of were-so-back familiarity.
(He declared bankruptcy three times between 1983 and 1992 the third just a few months beforeDraculaopened.)
This wasnt the first rereleaseOne From the Hearthas had, either.
Thats the thing about dreamers.
Youth Without Youthwas also self-financed.
Im pretty sure he lost money on all of them.
The world is a better place becauseApocalypse NowandOne From the HeartandBram Stokers DraculaandYouth Without YouthandThe Cotton Clubare in it.
I dont know that hes ever been in this thing to make money.
He certainly isnt now.
I couldnt care less about the financial impact whatsoever.
It means nothing to me, he toldGQlast year.
He added, The greatest thing I bequeathed to my children is their know-how and their talent.
In other words, his family doesnt need the money.
Who knows what you and I will think ofMegalopoliswhen we finally see it.
