Tag: francis ford coppola
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Hooptober 11.0 – Twixt (2011)
Being Film #12 for Hooptober 2024 What a beautiful, messy, sloppy charmer of a film. ON the one hand, I can see what both the average movie goer – even the casual Coppola fan – would be put off by Twixt, the maestro’s 2011 “return” to horror. I can also see how those fans who…
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Hooptober 2022 #35: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Over the course of Hooptober, I’ve watched several Dracula and Dracula adjacent films. I can’t explain why I find myself drawn to interpretations of Bram Stoker’s novel. I say interpretation because very few films have attempted to adapt the novel. F.W. Murnau needed to change things for Nosferatu so it didn’t incur the Stoker estate’s…