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calgaryherald.com –
2009-09-26
MUST-SEE: Tetro, 2 p. m. at Eau Claire Market. Iconic director Francis Ford Coppola, the man behind The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, gets personal in this film, in which he wrote (the first time he's done so in 30 years),... ... Full Article
Tetro
theglobeandmail.com –
2009-08-19
Francis Ford Coppola always had an eye for casting. Paramount wanted Robert Redford for Michael Corleone in The Godfather . Aghast, Coppola surreptitiously filmed Michael's scenes with an unknown, Al Pacino, gambling the studio would be won over. ... Full Article
400 Screens, 400 Blows - Tetro Tension
cinematical.com –
2009-08-02
Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro (16 screens) has been lurking on a few arthouse screens all summer, pulling in less than half a million dollars to date, and earning mostly lukewarm reviews from the handful of critics that bothered to see... ... Full Article
Francis Ford Coppola's new film, "Tetro," glows with confidence, even as it wanders into strange waters. It's the work of a mature filmmaker who's unafraid to make bold decisions. ... Full Article
Verdu has been honoured with the award for work over the past year and half, including roles in Francis Ford Coppola's drama Tetro , and Jose Luis Cuerda's Spanish Second World War film The Blind Sunflowers , which picked up... ... Full Article
Tetro
boston.com –
2009-06-19
Were it some unknown director's first movie or some great director's last, Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro'' would be either auspicious or loosely august. But alas, Coppola, who at 70 seems far from his beginnings and not terribly close to the... ... Full Article
Unlike his previous film, the mystifying "Youth Without Youth," "Tetro" has a relatively clear story at its heart (albeit one with an unexpected twist). Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich, making a fine, DiCaprio-ish screen debut) is an Italian-American teenager who travels to... ... Full Article
Francis Ford Coppola teared up twice during our interview at Cannes, when discussing his new film Tetro , the story of a young man who adores his fascinating older brother, emigre writer to Argentina, who abandoned him when he was... ... Full Article
I believe Francis Ford Coppola's talents are best expressed when working on the social, the continental, the historical, rather than the personal. Apocalypse Now , the first two films in the Godfather sequence, The Cotton Club -these films, which are... ... Full Article
Interview: Francis Ford Coppola, Tetro
moviesonline.ca –
2009-06-15
"Tetro" is visionary director Francis Ford Coppola's first original screenplay since "The Conversation" nearly four decades ago and it's his most personal film yet. Arising from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional, it is the bittersweet... ... Full Article