Megalopolis? WANT!!!

Especially since covid, I tend to avoid cinemas these days, but some films truly warrant the risk for the sheer circus spectacle - Dune and Dune 2, rescreenings of The Fifth Element or Rocky Horror - you know, the scale, the pantomime, it can't be done justice by even a big home cinema. My home is an Art Deco masterpiece, built in 1930, and it hasn't a large enough wall or a big enough acoustic for such cinematic expansiveness, let alone squeezing it into a 50" TV screen. Coppola Snr's "Megalopolis" is one I'm adding to my list. ASAP! At a quality cinema, like a Palace franchise, the Astor, perhaps!

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"Frank" has taken 40 years to make this film. Dropped $120,000,000 of his own wad to make it and some critics have described it as "rushed." I can't help feeling that he needed to make it now, for fear he'd never be able to, otherwise. In an interview reported by Australia's ABC, Coppola states of the Trump Presidential campaign, "In another month, America may lose its republic, and we may end up with a dictator or a right-wing king."

My biggest fear, in regard to dropping a wad on the ticket, is that it's also been compared to "Apocalypse Now," a film I have always found turgid and unfulfilling. Still, while it's set a millenium hence, it is about now, this moment, this year. One simply must see it, warts and all, for what it is - potentially America's last great opportunity to reflect on its greatness and ask if it really is so great afterall.