From Script to Scream
Richard Mayne, 18 December 1980
The Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Altman
by Robert Phillip Kolker.
Oxford, 395 pp., £8.50, April 1980,0 19 502588 1 Show More
by Robert Phillip Kolker.
Oxford, 395 pp., £8.50, April 1980,
“... and doubly insecure, as uncertain of their audience as they are of their finance. Since Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, especially, backers have been greedy for blockbusters, spurning more modest projects precisely because they cost – and promise – less. ‘Too much film-making is now based on an enormous gamble supported by enormous ... ”