![]() ![]() (In Michael Schumacher’s biography Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker’s Life, fellow Hofstra alum Joel Oliansky says, “My take on him then was exactly what my take on him is today: He’s incredibly talented and incredibly pretentious he doesn’t know what he’s doing half the time and the other half of the time he’s brilliant.”) Coppola’s combination of hustle and willfulness continued during his days at UCLA, where he pretended to be more experienced at making movies than he actually was, and picked up extra cash shooting “nudie cuties” and working for Roger Corman, while the rest of his classmates were making inscrutable art films for audiences consisting of other film students. The path of Coppola’s life has been marked by moments of cocky overreach, beginning with his days as a student at Hofstra University, where he bulled his way through the drama department and mounted some of the most ambitious, impressive productions the college had ever seen. It’s not that unlikely that Coppola became a vintner, though it’s something of a surprise that he’s been so successful at it, and for so long. #BEST COPPOLA WINE MOVIE#We’re movie buffs, not wine connoisseurs, so we compare notes on the wines like enthusiastic amateurs, wondering whether Coppola’s wines do as well as they do because of the famous name on the label-or, conversely, whether some people underrate them because they don’t trust their maker’s motivations.Īnd then there’s this question: Does it matter, really, if these wines are objectively “good?” Perhaps the wine is just an excuse for something else. We even have a go at some cans of Sofia Mini, a sparkling white that comes with a telescoping straw, just like a child’s juicebox. We put a good dent in a cabernet sauvignon that is pleasingly robust. ![]() We knock back one of the winery’s cheaper bottles: a pinot grigio that tastes a little watery. So that’s where we’ll begin this article: at a party in a courtyard outside of a condominium building in the Chicago neighborhood of Andersonville, where I and my Dissolve friends have assembled around a patio table to drink several bottles of Coppola wines. In 1971, as part of preproduction on The Godfather, writer-director Francis Ford Coppola gathered the cast and crew at an Italian restaurant in Manhattan, and set the mood for the movie by hosting a feast. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period.” Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. “One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. ![]()
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