Wherever you stand on the High & Low scale, meticulous attention to craft and detail separates the journeymen from the true artists. This week, we get a tribute to an American auteur that most reflects his exacting eye ? which, at one point, drove him into bankruptcy ? along with highlights from a comedy series devoted to watching dreadful movies over and over again to find the humor therein.
HIGH: Francis Ford Coppola: 5-Film Collection (Lionsgate; Blu-Ray $39.99)
WHO?S RESPONSIBLE: A quintet of films from legendary American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (although two of them are Apocalypse Now).
WHAT?S IT ALL ABOUT: This collection features the original and ?Redux? versions of Apocalypse Now, along with critical fave The Conversation, late-career curiosity Tetro and elaborate musical One from the Heart ? a film so lavish and expensive that it helped to bankrupt Coppola?s ambitious American Zoetrope film studio.
WHY IT?S SCHMANCY: The Godfather trilogy is owned by another company and thus absent here, but the films on display capture, in miniature, the breadth of what makes Coppola such a singular filmmaker. They?re all passion projects to some extent, and while some of these movies have their detractors, none of them represent Coppola collecting a big studio paycheck in return for mere competency behind the camera. (See Jack or The Rainmaker for that sort of thing.) From the technical and emotional nitty-gritty of The Conversation to the Vegas-vu-par-MGM spectacle of One from the Heart, this set captures a fascinating slice of American film history.
WHY YOU SHOULD OWN IT (AGAIN): One from the Heart makes its Blu-Ray debut here (file it next to The Criterion Collection?s recent hi-def release of another infamous budget-buster, Heaven?s Gate), and three of these films come loaded with plenty of extras.…
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