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Since his earliest days making films, Francis Ford Coppola has been willing to risk it all — his reputation, perhaps even his sanity and certainly his finances — to make a project come to life. In his 80s he did it again, putting up his own money to realize a film he had dreamed of for decades, Megalopolis.
Alas, the big gamble hasn’t paid off commercially, at least at this stage. Setting aside whether Coppola failed or not, the grandeur of his vision – and the vexing problems he faced throughout production – are captured for posterity in Megadoc, directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, Liebestraum). It’s now playing in select theaters.
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