Coppola and Scorsese quickly became two of the pillars ofthe New Hollywood movementof the 1970s.
Along withThe GraduateandBonnie and Clyde,CoppolasThe Godfatherand ScorsesesTaxi Driverhelped to define the American New Wave.
In a special piece forEsquire, Coppola and Scorsese named their favorite movies from each others stacked filmographies.
Interestingly, Coppola is much more on-target in namingScorseses best filmthan in naming his own.
Compared to all these Coppola masterpieces, Megalopolis is a bitter disappointment.
Its a jumbled hodgepodge of conflicting ideologies, pseudo-intellectual soundbites, and easy solutions to complex problems.
Compared to all these Coppola masterpieces,Megalopolisis a bitter disappointment.
but he namesRaging Bullas Scorseses towering achievement in cinema.
Robert De Niro won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his turn inRaging Bull.
Scorsese is right;The Godfather Part IIis a much stronger contender for the directors finest work.
Source:Esquire,Francis Ford Coppola
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