The Cotton Club

Watched the Encore cut. Apparently the theatrical cut has way less Gregory Hines dancing which seems like an INSANE mistake

Patrick Willems

ENCORE cut Just can't get my poor self together A relatively radical recut doesn't necessarily change the film but definitely clarifies its focus. More musical numbers and less gangster stuff, more blackness and less whiteness, more spontaneity less structure. Whether…

matt lynch

STARRING: NIC FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKIIIIIIING!!!!! CAGE (THE COPPOLA SAGA) STARRING: NIIIIIIIIICK FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKIIIIIIING CAAAAAAAAGGGEEEE!!!! (THE COPPOLA SAGA) If it were any other filmmaker, I’d probably be a bit kinder with this film, but considering it’s a sort of…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

A bit too much tippy tappy dancy wancy in my 1920’s crime film. I enjoyed all the jazz performances though, it just felt separate from all the drama going on, and the dancer’s side story didn’t add much. The insane drama behind the scenes deserves a film in and of itself.…

gregs1999

This may mostly miss its emotional targets but it's still a spectacular pastiche and a huge swing, and the relative backgrounding of the black characters' stories in that context seems less to me like an oversight or function of cinematic racism (though it certainly also…

matt lynch

This was pretty good but I feel like this also could have been better. Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Nicolas Cage, and Allen Garfield are all great. Diane Lane was decent and felt very miscast in this, but it could have been much worse than it was. Francis Ford Coppola did a…

Benjigotfried

(Encore cut) Coppola's gangster musical panorama of the Jazz Age and the birth of Hollywood myth. Certainly, one of his more interesting uses of his complex relationship towards movie past and fantasy and it puts the radical studio artifice he has been playing with since…

Filipe Furtado

Honestly it’s not too bad I was expecting something much worse due to what I’ve heard and it’s lacklustre box office peformance but it’s a fairly decent affair. Francis Ford Coppola crafts a Jazz musical with a gangster elements to create this big flashy film filled with…

Sam

Another God-level 1980s Coppola production, with a cinematic style that jitters nervously from gorgeous musical rapture and Godfather-like sinister montage, probably FFC's only real attempt at replicating the mood of his most famous work in a different context. Encore…

Joe