(USA/1981—directed by Francis Ford Coppola)  

After finally—and successfully—completing his famously troubled production of Apocalypse Now in the Philippines, Coppola turned to the controlled interiors of Hollywood studios for this stylized musical romance, with cinematography by the great Vittorio Storaro (Last Tango in Paris) and an innovative score by Tom Waits.

Teri Garr and Frederic Forest are a couple who break up during their fifth anniversary celebration in Las Vegas, encountering surprises and complications in the persons of Raul Julia, Nastassja Kinski, and Harry Dean Stanton.

Critics and exhibitors dismissed the film after seeing an unfinished preview and it was rarely screened, but the movie’s delicacy and conceptual daring more than justifies this newly minted restoration from a true cinematic pioneer. (107 min.)  

“Dazzling. Coppola’s film is sensuous, gaudy, dreamlike, baroque... a hymn to Hollywood tinsel.” –David Ansen, Newsweek