stayed more intrepid with age. Few people have
done more to champion classic cinema from all
corners of the globe than Scorsese, co-founder
of the vital preservation and restoration non-
profit Film Foundation. And Coppola, who has
tried to unearth a new medium he calls “live
cinema,” remains more experimental than most
filmmakers a third his age.
“I feel now we have this bifurcated cinema in
our country being of independent films where
we have the most wonderful wealth of talent
and then the industry films which are pretty
much superhero films,” Coppola told me ahead
of the release of his “Apocalypse Now: Final