One from the Heart

1982's notorious One From The Heart .....he pointed the way towards a cinema so dazzling visually....One From The Heart is best experienced as an elegant dance of sound and image divorced entirely from minor concerns like plot and dialogue.....Besides, Julia is such a charmer-warm, funny, charismatic, and romantic-that Garr would be a fool to choose a schmuck like Forrest over him.....Waits broods with exquisite world-weariness..... ... Full Review

An homage to the lavish music-rich Hollywood productions of yore, the achingly beautiful but flawed "One From the Heart" is a movie in love with moviemaking. Francis Coppola chose to follow his monumental "Apocalypse Now" with a simple love story set in a neon-drenched, fantastical version of Las Vegas. ... Full Review

But her performances sound technical, studied.....No sparks fly from the juxtaposition, and no seductive chemistry is implied;.... ... Full Review

Indeed, there's something perverse in Coppola having cast two gifted actors rather than stars as Hank and Franny....while visually the film may be overwhelming, "One From the Heart" benefits strongly from the seductive, plaintive songs of Tom Waits, sung by Waits and Crystal Gale..... ... Full Review

Arriving after two years of sound and fury, after all the news items on the financial pages and alarms and excursions in the movie trade press, Francis Ford Coppola 's ONE FROM THE HEART is an interesting production but not a good movie. The most dismal thing about ONE FROM THE HEART is that it lacks those rhythms. ... Full Review

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After the heady days of The Godfather and personal trial by Apocalypse Now, Coppolas career turned turkey when he followed the ill-conceived One From The Heart with this pretentious but pedestrian rites-of-passage drama, which boasts a glittering cast of male... ... Full Article

As a Francis Ford Coppola film, One From the Heart was a visually stunning dud. As a soundtrack album by Tom Waits along with Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynns little sister, its a beautifully realized score mixing the bluesy barfly melancholy... ... Full Article

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Anyone else looking forward to or even aware of this rarities boxset he's got coming out in November? There's been rumours about it for well over a year but these are the first concrete details I've come across. ... Full Article

One From the Heart: Romance. Starring Teri Garr, Frederic Forrest, Raul Julia, Nastassia Kinski. (R. 100 minutes. At the Castro and Rafael Film Center) "One From the Heart'' is back in theaters two decades after it broke Francis Ford Coppola's... ... Full Article