Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS
(Coppola comes in like Bane to all the guys in the audience) "You think you've thought about the Roman empire often enough? I was born in the Rome... molded by it...." Fearless, reckless, delirious, comical, pretentious, unwieldy, (disturbingly) sexy, visionary, dumb, magnificent, quizzical, romantic (yes, really), breathtaking, crude, laughable, extraordinary... all that and a bag of Platinum Wow chips (I mean give Aubrey Plaza the Oscar and the Razzie, right?) But the word I'd come back to most is Adventurous. This is the headless intellectual-emotional sense of what cinema can be in a mile wide nutshell. Put aside the moment you may have heard about - which I was lucky to see and sadly a lot of you in general release or video won't get - where Adam Driver talks to an actual human being in the movie theater (thank you, heroic random employee at the AMC in Paramus by the way, who got some much deserved applause); there's four or five minutes where Coppola j
