Francis Ford Coppola on the Future of Cinema, Marlon Brando and Regrets

[@dzidkab7189]

Im Polish listening to Coppola in Poland, today November 2024. Coppola is not only great director but also a wonderful story teller with a big knowledge about cinema. Coppola also talks in an interesting and humorous way to make you curious about film creation. Thank you for mentioning the great polish cinema creators.

[@MartinHatchuel]

"The things you get fired for when you're young are the same things you get lifetime achievements for when you're old'"

[@guileniam]

+Martin Hatchuel I guess that means the fantastic four director is a genius....

[@guileniam]

Dr.USMAN latif KHAWAJA With all due respect who the f is that gorgeous woman in yr dp?

[@guileniam]

Dr.USMAN latif KHAWAJA It seems to be common amongst muslims towards nonmuslims. I have had similar experience. I am guessing you are muslim as well though from your name?

[@guileniam]

Dr.USMAN latif KHAWAJA I agree, I am I am criticised for not joining the religion though I see no reason to, I believe my faith is between me and God not a group of men over "religion". I see God is everywhere, in the smallest things like a grain of soil, to the sky, it is part of everything and everyone. I worship through that and that is what I have been shown, why listen to the ramblings of anyone else or some crude wannabe imam?

[@branimirmarold7343]

+Martin Hatchuel 17:24 respect!

[@HabAnagarek]

I can listen to Coppola talk all day. I love that his age he's still thinking about film form. He's a national treasure, along with Scorsese, Spielberg, Mann, etc.

[@muditmalhotra86]

mann! glad to see him named alongside these other legends.

[@Quintessenceofdust7]

Ok

[@HabAnagarek]

@@Quintessenceofdust7 Ko

[@2424rocket]

Spielberg has made more crap movies than any other major Director in the world… “Hook“. What an embarrassment. And I could go on and on. As a young man he was innovative and freewheeling and wonderful… Now that he’s trying to make important movies,… But he’s just not a deep thinker. Technically he’s wonderful but philosophically he’s empty.

[@abhiruproy8592]

​@@2424rocket not at all. You failed to understand him😊

[@bulletafx]

"learning and music are they only things that you really pleasure from that doesn't bite you back" What a genius

[@michaelcelani8325]

And good exercise....!

[@nectarinedreams7208]

@@michaelcelani8325 Tell that to a pulled hamstring

[@ng2603]

Coppolla's passion for cinema history, story-telling and movie-making in general shines through every time he speaks. A true artist.

[@aliensoup2420]

Coppola gives the best DVD commentary. Another great commentary is Nicholas Meyer for Star Trek : The Wrath of Khan. Worst movie commentary - Tim Burton.

[@johnrobinson4445]

He is so down-to-earth while being openly pleased to be in this business and have his family in this business. What a marvelous man.

[@NothingMaster]

He is one of those people that you could listen to for hours on end and never get bored - a great engaging storyteller.

[@aliensoup2420]

Coppola gives the best DVD commentary. Another great commentary is Nicholas Meyer for Star Trek : The Wrath of Khan. Worst movie commentary - Tim Burton.

[@thomasleary2814]

@@aliensoup2420 Totally agree. His commentaries on all three 'Godfather' films are fantastic.

[@sonnyblack6121]

Love the scene when the Don scares his grandson with the orange peel and then quickly takes it out when he realizes he's actually scared him that's the real Brando apparently he had a real soft spot for kids

[@trollzynisaacjohan1793]

He had 11 lol maybe more.

[@oliwiapurta8612]

@@trollzynisaacjohan1793 yes, he had 11 children, 3 of whom he adopted

[@The_Chameleon]

Francis Ford Coppola is in my top 5 favorite directors of all time and Sofia Coppola is my favorite female director of all time, and shout out to Gia Coppola who did a great job on her directorial debut Palo Alto.

[@zerostozeros]

Great, great, great, storyteller.

[@ericfelds6291]

The immediately observable glowing unconditional love this man has for his family warms my heart. Francis Ford Coppola will go down as being just one of the best human beings ever.

[@theqwertyqwistle6972]

He supported, funded and protected a pedophile and blacklisted the victim out of Hollywood.

[@MahmutAkay]

What a beautiful, human and insightful interview by one of the greatest directors of all time.

[@guyr3618]

He seems like such a lovely guy to talk with, honestly.

[@montylatino1]

An overused word...genius...but for Mr. Coppola...very appropre. I met him one day in NYC when he was considering shooting Kerouac's "On the road"...I was so excited that when I shook his hand I think I might have hurt him a bit...'cause after my audition I wanted to shake his hand again...he deftly gave me his other hand...and we both laughed. A nice memory! A true artiste!

[@kevinhillary4057]

“The writing itself is the future of cinema,” his point was really good on how the novel is a few hundred years old but even now it’s still changing. Film will always be the same way I feel

[@michaelcelani8325]

...Kevin...the writing is The essential for good books or movies...and will always be. That is where the IDEAS are located

[@erichodge567]

I just finished watching Godfather 1 for the 86th time (and yes, I keep count). What gets me most about this interview is knowing how close that movie came to never being made. Ultimately, it came down to Coppola's willingness to cajole, and beg, and demand, and suffer that that masterpiece ever came to exist at all. So thanks, Francis, for being great, because you could have just decided to throw up your hands and be mediocre.

[@himanshugautam3224]

Hey man apparently every time you go to know more about your favorite movie, the things you read most of the time it feels like it was magic that final product that came out.

[@puvanmuniandy2838]

42 times for me....

[@joseman1138]

Al Ruddy had a lot to do with it too. I recommend the serie The Offer. It's about how The Godfather was made

[@scorsese1]

Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece.

[@SpyderDobro]

Fact

[@mirazusta2002]

Absolutely, and so is "The Conversation."

[@brandonbrooks898]

That would be a correct statement

[@jcoltrane8976]

Well, it’s not a masterpiece. It only seems like one because the movie’s have gotten much worse.

[@lrwiersum]

Great pic

[@BillyPentangeles]

the Brando stuff begins at 19:00

[@dre66roc]

thanku

[@AFMMD-q8]

Thank you very much, that's what I came her for, found Coppola blabbering away forever almost shot the PC down until I read your post.

[@DomenTheChief]

His comments on Brando are mostly blabbering, just anecdotes. What he says beforehand is actually relevant.

[@llamalulu4255]

BillyPentangeles thanks

[@mochapella]

thanks mate!

[@charger19691]

Francis Ford Coppola is truly a brilliant man.

[@czesccotamslychac9]

FYI: the composer he mentions in 4:45 is Witold Lutosławski

[@Hardiiix]

Thank you.

[@ugursrvermez7527]

[@pereliniandrews-manuma1758]

Brilliant guy! Love to listen to you Mr. Coppola.

[@luannrice-ue4fh]

This guy is fascinating to listen to. He must be marvelous as a dinner guest. The conversation would never lack interesting topics. He seems to know so much about film and the arts.

[@MartinHatchuel]

Wonderful interview (and the interviewer has a great voice, BTW). I transcribed this part because I want to keep it and re-read it over and over again when I'm thinking about my writing: "I thought it [The future of cinema] broke down into three categories. The fist is the script, because the script - be it a script, a play, or a novel is always being reinvented. You think about the novel - what is it? 400 years old? the earliest novels, Don Quixote, and Elective Affinities (peaking of Goethe) - but through those 400 years the novel has gone through incredible transformations dealing with point of view (you know, from whose point of view is the novel being told), and then we went through the great French - Flaubert and the great French artists, and it changed, Dickens and the serial form; and it changed, and then you got into the really modern times, with Joyce... So then the writing itself is the future of the cinema because there're gonna be... your great-grandchildren who are going to make cinema - what will that be like? I bet you the scripts themselves - or what, I call it a script, but the writing that precedes all movies is gonna be revolutionised, and those very themes - point of view, and interior consciousness, things like that are parallel structures, so within the very writing of cinema, which is at the basis of cinema, there in incredible, wonderful work that's gonna happen. "The second category... the documentary. The documentary is a form that's unique because it uses editing and manipulation, even some reshooting - but it's dealing with real, honest-to-goodness people and emotions. Documentary is a very interesting form, and gradually that will grow in ways that we can't imagine, and become more personal, and become combined with fiction in ways that we can't even anticipate - and hence, sure enough last year Sarah Polley makes Stories People Tell, which is exactly that, which is a documentary (beautiful film, definitely see it... I think it was nominated for an Academy Award). This lovely actor ... and now a film-maker makes this documentary that just sweeps you in and then pulls you and suddenly it's about things (I don't want to ruin for you), so personal and so touching that you can't imagine. So I said. 'Surely that is a whole new form of cinema: the real evolution of the documentary film and the documentary fiction film...' "But the third area really fascinated me because in the end I'm just a boy scientist. And the third area of cinema is the fact that now it's electronic, it's digital. You know that when they talk about television and they talk about movies, that that talk is nonsense: there's no difference. Television and movies are the same thing - it's all electronic. The movie theatres that we go to ... that's a form of a television projector. That's not a movie projector... And the cameras that shoot it are digital and electronic, and the editing is a computer. Nothing about film, technically, is the same as it was 30 years ago when we actually had Moviolas (and my great teacher, Dorothy Osner, who was the editor of Stagecoach, cut films - they said - 'in hand,' because when the silent editors took the film and went like that [shows pulling upward], they knew the length of time that was. She told me, 'Francis, if you have a kiss, three arms is a very, very long kiss, but four arms is a really sexy kiss.')"

[@himanshugautam3224]

Hello brother love the way you thought about it, which now has made you somewhat or maybe whole fascinated to talk to you. I really want to make a proper sense of Cinema (this 20th century art form) reply please reply i have some of my own observational theories of cinema really really want to discuss them with you. Please reply

[@ghamdios]

GodFather Part (1) is on the very top list of MY favourite movies ever made in Cinema's history and I am very sure that if anyone else played Brando's role in that movie even if he was 100% Italian will not even come close. Thank You Mr. Coppola for this master piece and thank Mr. Marlon Brando for doing it.

[@sorayaraza5827]

Brando's Secretary persuaded him 2,3,4 times to read the script...and he loved props, so the cotton wool or tissues came out.....excellent!!!

[@wolfganghasenmaier8350]

Rear window movie ended a depression of mine, reenergised me "there is ebauty in l,ife, magic"... some masterpieces are soulfood.... We are so blessed to live in this era...

[@jc6594]

Happy 80th Birthday Francis Ford Coppola

[@margaritadubrovina7063]

Learning and music never hit you back! Isn’t true? Coppola is the Nation treasure.

[@Rusticpoet90]

Imagine being the person who called Marlon Brando on the phone that day and Brando was experimenting with his Vito voice to you! This was before The Godfather became The Godfather we know it as. That has to be one memorable phone call.

[@tfla10]

Listening to this American icon I realized how down to Earth he really is. High IQ. with a great sense of humor too. Enjoyed the interview. Ms. Annette Insdorf is a revelation.

[@irfananwar7217]

Just wow! Such a man. Thank you so much for this interview.

[@sethman75]

Shame he doesn't make movies anymore because nobody is like him today. Made some of my favorites of all time, great man

[@patrickmullane30]

Mr. Coppola - I have been truly humbled- I am sorry for my arrogance- more importantly for my failure to preform. I am grateful for every opportunity you gave me and the patronage you afforded a sonoma county hick. I love you and admire you. God bless your success and the generations of Coppola’s to come.

[@theartist124]

One of the great things with Bram Stoker's Dracula is how incredible that soundtrack is; Wojcik Kilar, amazing soundtrack!

[@thomasleary2814]

@Sin Synn My sentiments exactly. Dracula was an over-the-top mess, but still worth seeing for Oldman's performance and the remarkable set design and effects.

[@thomasleary2814]

@Sin SynnI'm glad you mentioned Day-Lewis. He's my favorite and, like Oldman, has that rare ability to totally lose himself in his roles. Just compare his work in 'There Will Be Blood' to 'Lincon.' Astounding!Another marvelous Oldman performance is in the film 'State of Grace' in support (of course) of Sean Penn.

[@mirazusta2002]

@@thomasleary2814 What about Gary Oldman role as a "punk" in "Mean time." I think it was his feature debut.

[@DrAsa-mw3oq]

How extraordinary director Copola ❤is. Not to mention how young he was , when he made and directed the number one movie, " Godfather." And, extraordinary actor Marlon Brando, in this movie ❤. Young Al Pacino ❤🎉. This is the most extraordinary movie of all time in the history of the movies. And, the performances of other actors must be called extraordinary, too. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@Digistring2010]

thank u very much for such an inspiring, master class interview..........I think we r all enriched by this.

[@michaelcelani8325]

Soumitra.... Absolutely the BEST interview I have seen all year ! Thanks for you're recognition. August 17, 2020.

[@ashishsomkuwar4700]

Watching this is the Most enlightment moment of my life.

[@ramisgreenful]

Fabulous lecture ! Congratulations mr. Francis Ford Coppola !

[@ramazanbaris2349]

you know, studying filmmaking in a certain era is one thing, with all the history of filmmaking etc. However, having lived those eras, as mr. Coppola, is a whole other story. That's called real experience. He is one of the milestones in filmmaking history, who has all the rights to praise or criticize.

[@johnsmith-rd5li]

Great interviews...just imagine, Marlon Brando with polish in his blond hair. Delightful.

[@johnbowman3630]

Which Polish, Polanski?

[@dmc178]

The Lost Saragossa Manuscripts is an excellent film which shows the same moment from two different perspectives at different times. It's where Tarantino got the idea to do this in his films from. See it if you can. I saw it in a Berkeley Film Festival and in Denver at The Ogden Theater that used to show collections of films. A special place.

[@tommyhaynes9157]

Note that at 25.29 , it cuts from Coppola talking about the Godfather to him talking about Brando's role in Apocalypse Now

[@dejabu24]

great artist , genius

[@jayaybe1]

Thanks!

[@MattRichardsonX]

Anyone know if Coppola still has that Brando/Godfather screen-test footage?

[@jackietreehorn4430]

I can't hate this woman. Twenty years ago she introduced me to E. Klimov who is a master. She's been around for a long time and knows her shit.

[@MC-yq6us]

What’s her name

[@vivekanand5563]

@@MC-yq6us Annette Insdorf

[@james7981]

what a gem of a human

[@francesca3731]

I enjoyed this very much, thanks for sharing. If only we could see that Brando's "test screen"!

[@09nob]

What a legend, I can't wait to see Megalopolis.

[@09nob]

@Jackie Striegel Apparently that's what he's working on, it's been in gestation for ten years or more, hopefully covid hasn't derailed it.

[@craighicksartwork]

What a great interviewer.

[@RideHanna]

What a great man! I hope he lives forever!

[@ErnieCT1987]

I love his impressions. I'm not saying they're extensive or the best but they are good and unexpected. Lol!

[@jobhd1199]

Here is a man who got it right. But from what I hear he grow up in a family that art, food and family was very much vibrant and omnipresent.

[@MansoorMansoor-xn7jf]

What a wise man! Got to learn so much from him, just about life ❤️

[@antarcticorb9197]

My favorite filmmaker...

[@evangelista6442]

interesting interview thank you

[@nicholasjanke3476]

He said in one interview that while he was filming the Godfather, that crewmembers would walk around saying: "what a piece of junk!" Or-"What a ton of garbage! This film will go nowhere's!" COPPOLA: "Now I hear everyone say what a classic film it is. And how great it is! I sure wish those fans were around during filmiing, because I sure could have used them."

[@broussard41]

Mr. Coppola, you don’t have to die and go heaven or wait around to be born again. Just tune in to what this place has got to offer because we may never be here again.

[@suat365]

One of the greatest director of all time

[@dpj1]

I would LOVE to see the footage of Brando's transformation

[@franciscoaragao5398]

dpj1 • 82 years ago there is a KZbin post of a young brasilian critic where I saw that

[@erichodge567]

I dimly remember seeing where that "screen test" does exist. Let's Google it!

[@anthonylynch4737]

The Master Director !

[@beefknuckles]

Great interviewer. The depth of her knowledge was impressive

[@rap.4937]

He's 78 but he sounds like he's 30!

[@curfimo9793]

no he doesn't lmao

[@seamuspeacock346]

80

[@michaelcelani8325]

...what we are witnessing here, in this really incredible interview...is the Magic and Power of being Italian . or of being Italian American. Every word and idea from Francis is coming from that Italian heritage. I am Italian AND Sicilian., and recognize these things naturally. The damaged Oscars with his mother covering for him is a perfect example. For some reason many Americans just do not get what being Italian is all about. The creativity is certainly visible in Francis here , for all to see.

[@thomasleary2814]

Exactly. I remember thinking during this interview that his mind is still remarkably young. I could listen to people like Coppola, Scorcese, Bogdanovich, et al talk about films and be so enthralled that, to paraphrase Francis, I wouldn't realize that I had passed away.

[@timroberts7554]

Wonderful interview!

[@alanconrad8490]

fascinating brilliant man

[@debankur007]

fantastic movie maker.............just brilliant...........

[@teeniebeenie8774]

i saw him once at at book fair in frisco. he was lookiing at very expensive old medical books..

[@SuchetB]

awesome!!! i love Coppolla!!!

[@thithirdman9434]

The great Guru of cinema!

[@Charleybones]

After all of the grief and difficulty Brando put Francis through, you would think he would resent Brando. Instead, he reveres Brando and calls him one of the few geniuses he ever met. Brando must have been special, because Francis himself is a genius.

[@timothykalamaros2954]

learning can bite you back too. Ecclesiastes 1:17 "And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit."

[@honeybeebadger]

Francis Ford Coppolla is a genius movie maker

[@GoWandererGo]

What well thought out answers. Really enjoyed this. Excellent.

[@lonzoball8920]

He's Nicholas Cage uncle. Talented family

[@joeferguson2606]

nick cage is talented?

[@poopmaster8962]

@@joeferguson2606 oscar winner

[@5piecekit]

@@joeferguson2606Try "Leaving Las Vegas". Great film.

[@JonathanNelsonOfficial]

Jason Schwartzman is in that family too.

[@Astyeer]

Incredible

[@watchful1168]

Wonderful...

[@savedfaves]

Glad this is his opinion on 3D. I categorically prefer 2D movies. Your imagination can then do the 3D part. It allows you to particulate more in the movie, and a good filmmaker is aware of this. 3D involves all sorts of tricks and manipulations of your viewers attention that the magic is lost. Gravity for example tried it all, but failed on crappy story, empty characters and bad writing.

[@sathfdssyanakin2039]

all movies are not about characters and story. some movies are about experience .sad that you got stuck in the past.

[@666cfc]

Stuck in the past? 80% of that movie is a «blue screen» and it shows. They might as well made a cartoon. No soul whatsoever

[@sigmaroll9802]

Thx 1138.

[@ansarmaskenov5284]

Coppola somehow reminds me of Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now

[@lukasz4655]

Iam proud of my country POLAND

[@dougdoug9268]

A GREAT LEGEND WHO MADE THE NUMBER ONE MOTION PICTURE MOVIE OF ALL TIME THE GODFATHER

[@PninianPnin]

Love his pronunciation of Virginia Woolf at around 10:35. 'Vghi wol'

[@tonynesbit9673]

A giant of the movies.

[@Unlittle98]

I think some people may disparage his genuis because he is so earthy and because some of his films were not that great, but don’t mistake him for not being one of the greatest movie makers of all time!

[@NewWorldDAO]

I guy playing the role of Coppolas the guy that played Wozniak in Steve Jobs

[@Nicolas-uu3jr]

Failure does not exist here, ftw!

[@lrwiersum]

Sounds like yet another Brando fan, how could he not be ??

[@moonbeamskies3346]

I hope there were no Avengers films on his list.

[@HAL--vf6cg]

He probably hasn't bothered to see any

[@mariolakepka5085]

Ashes and diamond by Andrzej Wajda. What a surprising thing a real history gives to us,i mean,he made the film on the basis of the book with the same title, and the book took its plot out of....HISTORY,a Polish one, after ww2

[@VtRD]

I see that this film is on Max, the streaming service. So glad I can see it.

[@2962-w1k]

Hass was not obscure, he was modest and one of the greatest film makers of all time. equal to them all. Older polish film was one the greatest cinema period that ever existed.

[@michaelcelani8325]

Mr 68 ...Polish are Great ARTISTS ! Joseph Conrad my favorite author...best short story ever is "The Secret Sharer " by Conrad. Written in 1910. Just great.

[@alexanderclaylavin]

Sage words here

[@phantomfire8228]

14:41

[@TheJPSouza]

His greatest movies: The Godfather, The Godfather Part II & Apocalypse Now

[@enriquesinghjr]

Luckily that woman stopped talking during the second half of the video.

[@WesHuntermusicman]

+Enrique Singh No shit...I have been interviewed by people just like her and it turns my stomach every time (FAKE)

[@tonymusso7037]

This woman needs to interview her guest not attempt to show the audience how accomplished and self-consuming that she is.

[@meio4744]

Wtf does 'self-consuming' mean? Moron.

[@meio4744]

It's called a conversation. And she is pretty accomplished in her own field.

[@rong7496]

Captain EO was the best 3D/4D film ever. Coppola directed it.

[@lrwiersum]

Cinema ….. history……..but Brando ?? Oh my !! We all fan girl over Brando !!!

[@liamarunbennett8282]

thanks!

[@phantomfire8228]

10:44 Did he is just predict A.i writing scripts

[@pelida77]

When talking about the Polish composers, does he mean Witold Lutoslawski?

[@michaeldonovan4793]

the interviewer wasted a fourth of the interview on obscure polish cinema but francis, as always, handled it with grace and aplomb...

[@1herbiekritzer]

WoW, Francis is so engaging.