Youth Without Youth may not have turned out so hot, but Francis Ford Coppola is ready to try this comeback thing again with Tetro. It stars Vincent Gallo (the guy who Chloe Sevigny blew in Brown Bunny, a movie Roger Ebert called less entertaining than his colonoscopy footage) and Maribel Verdu, the older chick in Y tu mamá también (a movie you should Netflix if you’ve never seen).  Trailer is above, first three minutes of the film below.

“Set in Argentina, the story will follow the rivalries born out of creative differences passed down through generations of an artistic Italian immigrant family.”

As you can see, he shot the whole thing in black and white, which is fine as long as I can come to the theater in a fedora and smoke cigarettes the whole time.
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Francis Ford Coppola’s personal laptop was stolen in a robbery at his production office in Buenos Aires.  The laptop contained drafts of his upcoming film Tetro, which will star Matt Dillon.  Reps for Coppola say the screenplay was saved in other places.

Reps for the thieves say they were only trying to help.  They call themselves freedom fighters, and say that if Coppola releases another film like Jack, it may ruin the Godfather movies and Apocalypse Now for them forever.  They say they did it because they’re sick and tired of having to see movies with Nic Cage in them, just because he’s related to Francis.  They say they wished Sofia was present so they could shoot her in the face kidnap her and keep her from making movies.  They say her movies are tedious exercises in nothing and that she needs to learn something about life before she wastes everyone’s time again.  Yes, they said all of this.