Crime Against Coppola: Trade Roughage, 09/28/07

Coverage of what is truly interesting in the film world

By Karina Longworth posted 11 months ago

16 films are set to world premiere at the Rome Film Festival, including Francis Ford Coppola’s aforementioned Youth Without Youth, and Noise, a comedy starring Tim Robbins. Also noteworthy: the Tom Cruise/Robert Redford vehicle Lions for Lambs will play Rome first, thus scooping AFI.
Speaking of Coppola, the filmmaker’s office in Buenos Aires was burglarized this week. The perps allegedly “subdued a collaborator of the filmmaker and stole a camera and computers,” one of which contained the script for Coppola’s next planned project, which was set to be shot Buenos Aires with Matt Dillon in the lead.
The Mill Valley Film Festival will host the U.S. premieres of Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream and Things We Lost in the Fire, as well as a number of special events, including a performance of Shostakovich’s original score by the Marin Symphony alongside a screening of Battleship Potemkin; and a concert of Bob Dylan covers following a screening of Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There. The musicians for the latter event have not yet been announced, but I’d put money on an appearance from Pavement vet Stephen Malkmus, who ghost-sang for Cate Blanchett in the movie.