Tetro News

Francis Ford Coppola's 'Tetro' Gets Trailer

May 04, 2009 11:05:14

The first trailer to Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" has made its way out. Teasing a look into the filmmaker's first original screenplay since 1974's "The Conversation", the promotional video is dominated by black-and-white footage with splashes of colors seen nearing the end. It features mostly Alden Ehrenreich's Bennie and Vincent Gallo's Tetro.

Dubbed to be Coppola's most personal film yet, "Tetro" tells a bittersweet story of two brothers, Bennie and Tetro, of family lost and found, and of the conflicts and secrets within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family. It begins with 17-year-old Bennie traveling to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother Tetro.

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Javier Bardem Replaced by 'Volver' Actress in Drama Film

April 03, 2008 01:04:20

Winning an Academy Award apparently didn't help the acclaimed "No Country for Old Men" actor Javier Bardem in keeping his film role in "Tetro". According to Hollywood Reporter, the 39-year-old Spanish actor has to give up his role to a fellow Spaniard actress Carmen Maura in the Francis Ford Coppola's latest feature film project.

The actor who is rumored to be having a romantic relationship with actress Penelope Cruz apparently has to give up his character to the "Volver" actress because Coppola has done "a sex change operation" to the character. "One of the important roles in the script is a mentor and teacher to Tetro (Vincent Gallo), and I originally wrote it for a man," explained Coppola about the changes done. "As I read and reread (the script), I felt that the interaction between the two characters would be far more intriguing if they were of the opposite sex."

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Script for Francis Ford Coppola's New Pic Tetro Stolen

September 28, 2007 04:09:53

A computer containing the screenplay for Francis Ford Coppola's new project "Tetro" got stolen by armed bandits when they raided the famed filmmaker's Argentine headquarters on Wednesday night (Sept 26).

An independent news agency, Noticias Argentinas, reported at least five people broke into the offices of Zoetrope Argentina, tying up employees then taking computers, cameras, and other valuables. One of the computers taken turned out to store a script for the movie, which is set to start shooting next year.

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Francis Ford Coppola Making "Tetro"

February 13, 2007 11:02:00

Hoping to write and direct films at the pace of Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola is set to carry out his next directorial project after "Youth Without Youth" in "Tetro", a film that fictionalizes what he calls his "very unusual family" which has been populated by artists since his father's generation.

"I think at this age, I'm more disposed to look at my life in terms of dramatic material," Coppola remarked, speaking from his home in Napa Valley, California. "Maybe I'm less frightened or more confident about writing something that is fiction even though it has its basis in real things that I've seen and felt. Maybe it won't offend anybody, I hope."

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Rich, fascinating story with great characters...Coppolas' love of theatre and it's characters very apparent. Characters are more a force of nature than just related. The truth will alway come out. Too bad the Kabuki Theatre in San Francsico is showing Tetro with the right hand side out of focus...about a third of the image or so. Drives me nuts. Isn't this 2009? With all the development in theatre, film, lenses, etc. we still have to watch movies with parts of them out of focus? Makes me long for the DVD, to finally see the film the way it was shot.

posted by thedre on Jun 24, 2009

Oh, one more thing...or two...the score for this film is gorgeous. The second thing...skin tones with this new cinema, seem to be kind of gray flat in many, but not all scenes. Seems like the choice of lighting for the entire scenes...including the outdoor cafe table scenes work for the environment, but let the faces go a bit to gray and without enough pop to them. LIke I said, doesn't happen for the whole film...but does in plenty of it. In the old days of portrait work, men would be photographed with a green filter, as it made the man's skin tone darker, due to the relationship of the green filter, the warmth of the skin color, and the panchromatic film. THey didn't use it on the gals. They sued to add a tiny dose of cold cream...just a dot, and smear it on the gals faces to give them highlights...ok...class over.

posted by the dre on Jun 24, 2009

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posted by Mpabgyfu on Jul 13, 2009