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CQ (DVD)
dvdtown.com –
2002-09-14
A good cast, a decent budget, and a novice filmmaker don't always add up to much. In the case of "CQ," the 2001 film from writer-director Roman Coppola, the sum of the parts equals largely a confused mediocrity. ... Full Article
'CQ': a '60s Surface Safari By Desson HoweWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, May 31, 2002; Page WE41
washingtonpost.com –
2002-05-31
"CQ," ROMAN Coppola's cine-schoolboy homage to the pop underground era of the '60s, is a charming, spirited movie for cinephiles, or those who aspire to be. It's the kind of movie every kid in film school wanted to make but ... Full Article
May 29, 2002 | The movies we love best don't necessarily stick with us as distinct wholes but as flashes of images that can strike, cobralike, in our memories at any time. ... Full Article
CQ: Sixties Savvy, Barbarella Bizzare
ign.com –
2002-03-05
March 5, 2002 - Premiering this month (8th - 17th) at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas is the off-center comic drama CQ , the directorial debut of another member of the Coppola family: Roman Coppola. ... Full Article
Early on, Coppola introduces the "irony" that such a goofy film could be made in the wake of the 1968 Paris riots (Valentine is even a student protester turned starlet). ... Full Article
Francis Ford Coppola seems to have raised an entire family of chips off the old auteur. Two years after Sofia Coppola made her feature directorial debut with ''The Virgin Suicides,'' 37-year-old Roman Coppola makes his with CQ, a whimsical plop... ... Full Article
With the movie set in Paris in 1969, it seems like a good choice to enlist the Parisian band Mellow to sculpt a groovy score. ... Full Article
0 Comments B. Alan Orange's SUMMER ROADTRIP Part I: "An intimate look at Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, CQ, and Undercover Brother with this week's guest Billy Dooku." ... Full Article
The Fantasy Film Library contains flicks like MANT, Sand Pirates of the Sahara, Habeus Corpus , and the Tom Baxter adventure The Purple Rose of Cairo : movies that exist only within other movies, ideally movies you're dying to see. ... Full Article
CQ, the debut feature by Strokes music videographer and Coppola family upstart Roman (brother to Sofia, son to Francis), has a plot skinnier than its star's waistline, and like the leggy, insouciant Angela Lindvall, it manages to be enormously easy... ... Full Article