![]() ![]() Librarian Jo Ellen Misakian of the Lone Star School in Fresno, California sent the filmmaker a letter signed by over 300 students asking him to please make a movie out of their favorite book. Coppola’s achingly heartfelt adaptation of Hinton’s 1967 novel had the most unlikely of origins: a petition. 1 as part of the Somerville Theatre’s “Play It Cool II” series, and it’s worth taking another look at this oft-mocked operatic curio on a giant screen. Hinton.Ī 35mm print of “The Outsiders” screens on Wednesday, Aug. (As with megaflops like Martin Scorsese’s “New York, New York” and Peter Bogdanovich’s “At Long Last Love,” musicals proved the Achilles heel of the New Hollywood mavericks.) One step ahead of his creditors and squabbling with Wim Wenders over reshoots on the latter's Coppola-produced English language debut "Hammett," it was, in the filmmaker's own words, "chaos incorporated time." So that's when the director of "The Godfather" films and "Apocalypse Now" up and moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma for a while to be the cinematic voice of YA novelist S.E. ![]() Francis Ford Coppola’s dream of owning his own independent movie studio had come crashing down with the cataclysmic failure of his “One From The Heart,” a quixotic soundstage musical overwhelmed by its own production design. The Don was in exile during the early ‘80s. The cast of "The Outsiders." (Courtesy Warner Bros.) This article is more than 4 years old. ![]()
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