A new Megalopolis documentary reveals why it turned out like that
It's been almost exactly a year since I first saw Megalopolis, and the last 12 months haven't been kind to Francis Ford Coppola's long-gestating epic. It mostly bewildered critics and audiences, earned back just a fraction of its $120 million budget, and still isn't easily accessible via streaming or a Blu-ray release. Megalopolis is a film that the Godfather director had been thinking about for decades before the cameras started rolling, and that post-release chaos is nothing compared to what actually went into making the feature a reality. So even if you didn't really get what Megalopolis was all about, or haven't seen it at all, the new d …