Coppola's Twixt

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Francis Ford Coppola sat down with our Ian Freer to talk about Apocalypse Now for the latest issue of Empire magazine (out on Thursday), and while he was there he dropped just a couple of tiny tidbits about his new film, Twixt Now And Sunrise, which might be of interest to his fans.
"It's part personal film, part Gothic romance, part Halloween show. If I can present it the way I want to, it is something that's never been done before," he said of the film.
Given that there have been rumours already that Coppola was planning on presenting a "brief dramatic segment" of the film in 3D, his remark about "presenting it the way I want to" sounds rather significant. Coppola is still in the editing room with the film at the moment, after writing the screenplay in two days. Apparently he was inspired by a dream he had in Istanbul that was interrupted by a morning call to prayer, leaving him struggling to get back to sleep to find its end.
For his own films, he says, "The only rule is that it is beautiful and that people are affected and moved by it." He also credits Sofia Coppola for changing the way he makes films. "My daughter has taught me how to look for what I want to express with less - with less talk and more with what I feel. I feel a lot of things, but in order to try and express them, sometimes I think I go too far."

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Francis Ford Coppola is making his first return to Comic-Con in nearly two decades with plans to bring scenes and music from his upcoming horror story Twixt to the San Diego gathering.
The writer-director describes the independently made movie as “one part Gothic romance, one part personal film, and one part the kind of horror film that began my career.”
Considering his first film work was on titles such as Dementia 13, The Terror, and The Haunted Palace, it sounds like the eventual maker of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now is veering away from art-house fare like Tetro and Youth Without Youth and more toward the grindhouse.
See below for more on the film …
Twixt — which was formerly known as Twixt Now and Sunrise — stars Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Ben Chaplin and Super 8‘s Elle Fanning, and features a mix of 2-D and 3-D.
Coppola says the story is inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne and came to him during a “vivid dream” while visiting Istanbul. The official synopsis raises as many questions as it answers:

A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He’s unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. Ultimately he is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find that the ending has more to do with his own life than he could ever have anticipated.

Coppola was last at Comic-Con in 1991 to preview elements of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. He will present scenes from Twixt on Saturday, July 23 in the convention’s big Hall H auditorium, joined by musician Dan Deacon, who will perform some of his score for the movie.

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Straight to dvd for this

henryporter

Remarkable descent from glory. Perhaps Francis should have stuck to the wine making at this stage of his career?

Sad Professor

Coppola's decent was in the '80s and '90s when he became a director-for-hire making whatever crap the studios threw his way. His recent films has been a return to creative form. They are experimental efforts that don't always works, but at least he's challenging himself. I didn't care for Tetro (I can't stand Vincent Gallo) but I thought Youth Without Youth was excellent.

Twixt is probably unwatchable sh*t, but at least Coppola has his artistic integrity back.