Coppola’s Favorite Young Directors

Francis Ford Coppola on his favorite “young directors”:

Q: With the caveat that you can’t name anyone related to you, are there any young directors out there whose work feels to you like the stuff that you and your chums were making back in the day?

A: I know this is gonna sound funny, but the one young director I really admire is Woody Allen, because he writes ’em, and he makes ’em, and he goes on undaunted and just does it, and every film he makes has something wonderful in it, even if one is great and another is less great. But there’s a whole list of talented younger filmmakers — there’s Paul Thomas Anderson and David Russell and Wes Anderson and Tamara Jenkins and Todd Solondz. We are rich with talent.

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Performances We’ll Probably Never See

It’s hardly news that Adrien Brody played a major role in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line… until that storyline was cut from the film. Still, it’s probably fair to do honor to that unseen effort from time to time, in articles like this one.

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