Tetro

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Francis Coppola's publicist Kathleen Talbert has sent out the following message about Tetro, Coppola's latest film, and the Cannes Film Festival: "Since there has been much speculation in the press about the Cannes line-up," she staites, "we want you to be aware that Francis Coppola has declined to bring his new film Tetro, starring Vincent Gallo, to Cannes.

"Below is his statement. If you choose to use it, I would ask that you use it in its entirety. Oh, and just to correct another misconception -- Tetro [has been] shot in black and white and color." Todd McCarthy's Cannes lineup piece that ran in Variety yesterday mentioned that Tetro (a) is a prospective Cannes attraction and (b) has been shot in black and white.

"While I very much appreciate the invitation," Coppola's statement reads, "this is an independent film, self-financed and self-released, and I felt that being invited for a non-competition gala screening wasn't true to the personal and independent nature of this film. More important than Cannes, our team can focus all our time, energy and resources into the U.S. release this June 11th."

HE translation #1: "As some of you have gathered since the release of Youth Without Youth, the words 'independent film,' 'self-financed' and 'self-released' as they concern yours truly are euphemisms for confounding, difficult to stay engrossed in, draggy, mind-numbing, etc." HE translation #2: "If we take our film to Cannes we'll get killed by the critics and the word will go out everywhere so why do it? We can only lose."

Tetro will open on 6.11 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Miami, and Washington, D.C.

[mogwai]

man, if only george lucas was as smart and innovative as ffc.

[MacGuffin]

Exclusive: Coppola Talks Tetro
On his new personal film
Source: Empire Online

Francis Ford Coppola doesn't go for obvious choices. After all, you might expect the director of The Godfather films to spend the rest of his days reclining on a bed of laurels and/or remaking Carry On films for sacks of cash. But instead he's making 'personal' films ("We're not allowed to say arthouse anymore, because it's the kiss of death") like the forthcoming Tetro, which he told us a little about in the new issue of Empire.

"As I grow older, I realise that I always wanted to be a writer," said the director, who - sure enough - wrote the screenplay for this tale of a 17 year-old sailor called Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich) who arrives in Buenos Aires in search of his lost brother Tetro (Vincent Gallo), a poet. When he finds him, the pair reflect on their troubled past with domineering composer father Carlo (Klaus Maria Brandauer).

"This is not an epic about immigrants in 1905, like The Godfather or anything. This is a real, specific drama, albeit poetic drama. I think Tetro is the most beautiful film I've ever done in terms of how it was made. I don't know what people will make of the picture, but just the filmmaking part of it, I've learnt to put it together beautifully."

[MacGuffin]

Coppola on location:

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trailer:

[mogwai]

i'm looking forward seeing this in any format available. hell, even in vhs if that's possible.

[SiliasRuby]

Gimme an F, F! Gimme a U, U! Gimme a C, C! Gimme a K, K! Gimme a Y, Y! Gimme a A, A! What's that spell? Fuck Ya! What's that spell? Fuck Ya!!!!!!

[Pozer]

gimme a , . what's that spell? SiliasRuby.

[cinemanarchist]

I honestly can't tell if this looks amazing or atrocious. I thought the Youth Without Youth trailer looked flat-out amazing so I'm a little nervous. Either way, I'll be front in center and ready to judge for myself.

[MacGuffin]

First three minutes here.

[picolas]

i'm suddenly super interested in this.. i love the idea of making COLOUR a novelty again.

[Gamblour.]

i'm suddenly super interested in this.. i love the idea of making COLOUR a novelty again.

egh, don't you mean COLOR? and anyway that is so 1939. /stupid

[picolas]

nope. colour. i'm canadian.

[Gamblour.]

nope. colour. i'm canadian.

dude I have a 'u' in my screen name. I was being facetiouus. sigh. if only i could go back and prevent myself from typing that, we wouldn't have this conversation.

[mogwai]

Gimme an F, F! Gimme a U, U! Gimme a C, C! Gimme a K, K! Gimme a Y, Y! Gimme a A, A! What's that spell? Fuck Ya! What's that spell? Fuck Ya!!!!!!

who are you saying fuck ya to?

anyway, this is going to look kick ass in blu-ray!