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You are invited to a free advance screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s eagerly-awaited, $120 million epic “Megalopolis,” starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza and Dustin Hoffman. The screening will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25. There is a limit of four tickets per registration. Seating is not guaranteed so please arrive early.
MEGALOPOLIS | (2024) | WRITER-DIRECTOR: Francis Ford Coppola | WITH: Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman | RUNNING TIME: 2 HOURS 18 MINUTES | RATED R for sexual content, nudity, drug use, language and some violence | PROJECTED IN 4K DCP
The city of New Rome is the main conflict between Cesar Catilina, a brilliant artist in favor of a utopian future, and the greedy mayor Franklyn Cicero. Between them is Julia Cicero, her loyalty divided between her father and her beloved.
“After more than 40 years of idly fantasizing about the project (and more than 20 years of actively trying to finance it), Coppola is bringing “Megalopolis” to screens at a moment when his chosen medium is struggling to find a way forward, and the world around it seems teetering on the brink of collapse.
“Just as in 63 B.C., when an evil patrician named Catiline appealed to a coalition of malcontents in a bid to overthrow the Republic, we are choked by the grip of delusional aristocrats and vertically integrated conglomerates whose lust for power and profit is only matched by their lack of foresight. Even with the past as our guide, we are at imminent risk of allowing the now to destroy the forever.
“Coppola has always believed in America, but his faith is eroding by the second, and “Megalopolis” is nothing if not the boldest and most open-hearted of his many bids to stop time before it’s too late (an effort that has informed so much of his career, from “Peggy Sue Got Married” and “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” to “Youth After Youth” and “Jack”). As ever, he recognizes the futility in the attempt, even if his characters are sometimes a bit slow on the uptake.
What elevates “Megalopolis” so far above those other films is how clearly the constant madness of its folly and the occasional disaster of its design serve as conduits for its writer/director/producer/financier’s entire creative ethos. Coppola might lack the imagination required to invent the new cinema that his new movie so desperately wishes it could will into being (he’s not even De Palma in that respect, let alone Godard), but he’s always seen the need for it better and more urgently than any of his contemporaries.” — David Ehrlich, Indiewire
Admission is FREE but registration required at link above. Film will start on time so please arrive early. There is a limit of four tickets per registration.
