One From the Heart

(Francis Ford Coppola, 1982, Studio Canal, 12)The most ambitious film-maker of the 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola had a string of critical and box-office successes before his triumph with Apocalypse Now. But he actually achieved disaster with One From the Heart, a grand folly comparable with Spielberg's 1941 and Scorsese's New York New York.The film helped bankrupt Coppola's Zoetrope Studios on whose sound stages he'd extravagantly recreated an astonishing surreal Las Vegas, setting for a modest ta...

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