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Francis Ford Coppola, a legendary filmmaker no matter how you slice it, sat down recently to talk through his most notable films: The Godfather films, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and a new movie he’s working on called Megalopolis. I really enjoyed this. Some tidbits:

• Coppola didn’t know anything about the Mafia before making The Godfather.
• The studio did not want to call it Godfather Part II. And now explicit sequels like that are ubiquitous.
• He praised the way Marlon Brando thought about ants and termites?!
• I’d missed that Godfather Part III had been recently recut and rechristened“Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone”, which is what Coppola wanted to call it all along.

And this is a great way to think about creative projects:

Learning from the great Elia Kazan, I always try to have a word that is the core of what the movie is really about — in one word. For “Godfather,” the key word is succession. That’s what the movie is about. Apocalypse Now,” morality. “The Conversation,” privacy.

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Why Australia Needs A Ministry Of Culture

There is abundant evidence to show the government’s financial support for the arts and culture has been significantly reduced over many years. Today the arts don’t even rate a mention in the title of the government department responsible for them. - ArtsHub

Literature In Odesa Amid The Air Raid Sirens

"When I ask [legendary Odesa journalist Yevgeny Golubovsky how I can help, he replies, 'Ah, I need nothing, and when I ask again what I can do, he sends a quick message back: 'Putins come and go. We are putting together a literary magazine. Send us poems.'" - The Paris Review

The Fight Between Dialect And ‘Proper’ Italian Lies At The Heart Of This Ferrante Adaptation

Linguistic assimilation was meant to unify Italy as a country. "Even by the 50s, though, Italian remained a made-up language, manufactured and largely spoken by the intelligentsia, and associated with politeness and self-control." - LitHub

How Ireland Took On the Church and Freed Its Soul

A nation learned to dodge God’s law in everything from biscuits to birth control, until religious doublethink became an agent of its own undoing

Good James Wood review of the new Fintan O’Toole book on Ireland (New Yorker)

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“I’ll Let the Chips Fall Where They May”: The Life and Confessions of Mob Chef David Ruggerio

In the 1980s and 1990s David Ruggerio was a rising star of French cooking in New York—and a proto–celebrity chef with cookbooks and TV shows to his name. But all that success in the kitchen belied the double life he was leading as a rank-and-file member of the Mob. Decades after his fall from grace and mysterious disappearance from the food world, Ruggerio is coming clean. 

A Ukrainian Family Tries to Plan a New Life

As the Biden administration announces the U.S. will open its doors to the war’s refugees, those already here are navigating the disorienting hurdles of resettlement.

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Defining an artist is both simple — an artist is a person who makes art — and treacherous. In the context of Arts Management,...

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