Megadoc

God, this was entertaining. I wish I could have this kind of fun more often. Francis Ford Coppola hired Mike Figgis to direct a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Megalopolis and gave him Burden of Dreams-level freedom. Figgis’s only obstacle was the…

Will Sloan

There’s a moment here where Shia LaBeouf says he thinks what he sees on a movie screen is real, and the way Coppola looks like at him like he’s an idiot had me cackling.

Robert Daniels

This should’ve been four hours long. Feels like it barely scratches the surface of what they were doing beyond the stuff with LaBeouf and Plaza (all of which is riveting). Show us all the footage from the table reads and test footage with DeNiro and Gosling!

Patrick Willems

The story of a king who turns everything around him into Megalon, except he doesn't quite know what Megalon is yet. When I first saw Megalopolis I didn't really clock the significance of what the film's production designer Bradley Rubin calls the "organic, magical…

Adam Nayman

makes a legitimately compelling case for working with Shia LaBeouf being the hardest thing Francis Ford Coppola has ever done, including the making of Apocalypse Now

coffee

insights: 1.) Coppola should really rather have done something with a quarter of the budget instead of throwing the money out the window and complaining about it. 2.) Aubrey Plaza is so feisty and funny and loveable - "my type of girl" says 100yrs old Dustin Hoffman and she…

shookone

wild. i was in atlanta shooting a tv pilot while megalopolis was in production there and was hearing much chitter chatter from the crew about the mess unfolding on FFC’s set… this kind of reminded me of the stuff in the kanye doc where he’s getting mad at people he has on…

ivy wolk

MEGADOC might be the funniest documentary I’ve seen all year, mostly because the chaos behind the making of “Megalopolis” and the sincerity everyone brought to a vision that nobody seemed to really understand other than Francis Ford Coppola is as absurd as the final…

Matt Neglia

God bless this weird old man making this insane great movie that sucks

Tiger Wiger