Twixt (Francis Ford Coppola, 2012)

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Twixt (Francis Ford Coppola, 2012)

#1 Post by domino harvey » Sun Jul 24, 2011 1:16 am

Coppola's new ghost story starring Elle Fanning and Val Kilmer had a bizarre presentation of footage today at Comic Con, wherein Coppola "live remixed" the footage and audio in front of the crowd with an iPad. Apparently he plans a 30 city tour of the film with live recutting and accompaniment from Dan Deacon. :shock:

Full recap here

EDIT: Even more in-depth report here
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#2 Post by knives » Sun Jul 24, 2011 1:29 am

At least he's being creative. I saw that on set photo that's been flying around and if that means anything we'll be getting something interesting if not necessarily good.

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#3 Post by John Cope » Sun Jul 24, 2011 3:15 am

I'm most intrigued by the prospect of Kilmer reunited with Whalley for the first time, I think, since Kill Me Again, John Dahl's excellent debut and one of the very finest of the neo-noirs. Still, for sheer spectacle value this screen reunion likely won't match the dissipated allure of seeing Mickey Rourke and Carre Otis back together in Exit in Red, six years and a million miles from that initial ecstatic immersion in Wild Orchid's frothy surf.

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#4 Post by Finch » Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:21 am

Thanks for the links, dom, which have made me all the more excited about the film. Bring it on, Francis

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#5 Post by Roger Ryan » Sun Jul 24, 2011 12:09 pm

I've been very impressed by the risks Coppola has been taking in the past few years. Lucas made some noise about a decade back where he said he would invest some of his money into doing small experimental films like he wanted to make in his film school days. So far this has not come to pass whereas Coppola has taken up the challenge grandly (interesting that APOCALYPSE NOW originated as a Lucas film that Coppola ultimately took over).

I thought YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH was close to brilliant and, while I found TETRO to be somewhat less impressive, I cannot commend Coppola enough for walking away from the large studio projects and following his fancy. This multi-city tour sounds crazy in a very good way and I'm curious if an eventual Blu-ray release will reflect a similar randomness to how the film is presented.

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Re: Twixt (Francis Ford Coppola, 2011)

#6 Post by Jeff » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:30 pm

Teaser posters, creepy Elle Fanning, the always creepy Val Kilmer, the ghost of Edgar Allen Poe and more pics courtesty of The Playlist here and here.

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#7 Post by knives » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:19 pm

I'm surprised with this name and the whole remix thing we haven't had this joke yet.

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#8 Post by cocaine socialist » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:19 pm

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#10 Post by Jeff » Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:51 pm

Yikes. I'm not sure if it was Kilmer's acting or FFC's writing that seemed so awkward there. Whatever it was, combined with the filmschoolesque production design and CG backgrounds made it look like Under a Killing Moon, Phantasmagoria, or similar mid-nineties interactive adventure games. I'm intrigued enough to give it a shot though.

Best part of the trailer is the use of the retro American Zoetrope logo.

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#11 Post by Oedipax » Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:26 am

I'm baffled as to why this looks so terrible from a cinematography standpoint. Why not just shoot on the same setup he used for Tetro?

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#12 Post by Giap » Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:29 am

Tom Waits doing the trailer voice is a pretty fun idea!

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#13 Post by Dylan » Tue May 01, 2012 5:57 pm

Twixt opened last week in France to rave reviews. There's also a new trailer up at the film's official website, and the official Facebook page has been posting reviews and links about the film.

Unlike most people here, I adored Tetro to no end (exemplary b&w on a visual standpoint, but I also think it's one of the greatest films of the last decade & my personal favorite work of Coppola's) & while Twixt doesn't look quite as good it does look fascinating.

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#14 Post by domino harvey » Tue May 01, 2012 7:04 pm

Sweet, maybe we'll get a home video release somewhere soon, since it seems like this doesn't even have US distro

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#15 Post by Dylan » Wed May 02, 2012 1:11 am

domino harvey wrote:Sweet, maybe we'll get a home video release somewhere soon, since it seems like this doesn't even have US distro
Coppola has mentioned that he will distribute the film himself, at least theatrically. If the release has any resemblance to that of Tetro, this probably means Twixt will have a festival round (I'm hoping it will plat at SIFF) followed by a very limited theatrical release, and maybe late this year or next year a DVD (Lionsgate picked up Tetro for DVD and released it a year after I saw it theatrically). What I'm really curious about is if he's making a straight theatrical cut without the "remix" and 3-D scene gimmicks.

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#16 Post by domino harvey » Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:45 pm

I don't know what ever happened to this stateside but it's getting a Blu-ray release in France this December

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#17 Post by Forrest Taft » Wed Oct 03, 2012 11:45 am

It's been out on blu-ray in Norway since august. This is a pretty good one. Coppola is on a roll.

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#18 Post by knives » Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:15 pm

How have the DVDs been incorporating his DJing if at all?

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#19 Post by Forrest Taft » Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:19 pm

Did he ever actually do that? There is only one cut on my disc. I assume this is a cut that was completed before he started editing it live (if that ever happened).

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#20 Post by knives » Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:26 pm

I'm sure there was a master cut, but I believe with all of the theatrical screenings (he was able to attend) he did the live editing.

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#21 Post by domino harvey » Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:33 am

Any idea where to purchase the Nordic Blu?

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#22 Post by domino harvey » Sun Oct 21, 2012 12:12 pm

A: SubDVD had it for ~$27 US shipped!

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#23 Post by domino harvey » Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:19 pm

I can report that the aforementioned Nordic Blu-ray is region free with removable subs and arrived with no issues (and a hand-written note of thanks) from SubDVD!

Fear not those who cringed at the trailer, the film is perfectly competent and even makes moments of pure Val Kilmer nonsensical improv ("Now I'm a gay basketball player from the sixties" &c) feel organic to the pic. Indeed, this wonderful film exceeded my expectations-- whatever those were to begin with! Here Val Kilmer's wandering hack horror writer stops off in a small town and uncovers details of a mass murder with the help of ghostly figures Elle Fanning and Ben Chaplin (as Poe). This is the second year in a row that Fanning has starred in a fitting throwback to another era, as with a little editing of the excessive gore this could pass for one of the most feverish of cable TV staples from the '80s thanks to its inventive execution and willingness to pursue big ideas with lackadaisical follow-through. Coppola's idea here is to contrast the "daytime" off-kilter comedy routines of Kilmer and Bruce Dern (both a riot) with the "nighttime" bizarro mishmash of Rumble Fish and Sin City. The rampant tonal shifts, the sure stylistic assaults, the measured lunacy…. Coppola has delivered his strangest film yet, and one of his best.

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#24 Post by antnield » Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:46 pm

French and German Blu-rays emerged a couple of weeks ago. The Digital Fix reviews the latter.

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#25 Post by zedz » Thu Jan 03, 2013 5:49 pm

RobertAltman wrote:It's been out on blu-ray in Norway since august. This is a pretty good one. Coppola is on a roll.
domino harvey wrote:Any idea where to purchase the Nordic Blu?
You had the opportunity to make a "buying a Norwegian Blu" joke and passed it up? That's some fierce self-control.

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