Country: USA
Year: 2011
Duration: 90
Hall Baltimore is a horror novel writer who has lost his inspiration. During a promotional tour he winds up in a small town overwhelmed by the death of a little girl killed by a wood stick stuck straight into her heart. That same night he receives the visit of young and mysterious V. Finally Baltimore, who appears to be overwhelmed by the supernatural and the dreamlike, will have to deal with the phantoms of his past, before reaching the truth. “A year or so ago, I was in Istanbul in Turkey. The night I had a particularly vivid dream with a setting that was not unlike the American tradition of stories I loved (by Nathaniel Hawthorne or Edgar Allan Poe). Suddenly the call to prayer poured in from a nearby mosque, nearly knocking me out of bed and I thought: ‘Oh no, I’ve got to sleep.’ Of course I never was able to get back to that dream, but at least I was able to dictate the fragment of it into a recorder. That was the germ of the story that became Twixt.”
Biography
film director
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (Detroit, MI, USA, 1939) after specializing in direction at the UCLA, he debuted in 1963 with Dementia 13, before directing movies like The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather - Part II, winner of six Oscars (for best movie and best director) and Apocalypse Now, winner of the Golden Palm in Cannes 1979. During the 1980s he made various films, including Rumble Fish and Cotton Club. In 1992 he received the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement in Venice and during the same year he directed Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Among the last movies directed by him: Youth Without Youth and Tetro, presented at the 2009 Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Dementia 13 (Terrore alla tredicesima ora, 1963), You’re a Big Boy Now (Buttati Bernardo!, 1966), The Godfather (Il Padrino, 1972), The Conversation (La conversazione, 1974), The Godfather - Part II (Il Padrino - Parte II, 1974), Apocalypse Now (id., 1979), Rumble Fish (Rusty il selvaggio, 1983), The Cotton Club (Cotton Club, 1984), Gardens of Stone (Giardini di pietra, 1987), The Godfather - Part III (Il padrino - Parte III, 1990), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Dracula di Bram Stoker, 1992), The Rainmaker (L’uomo della pioggia, 1997), Youth Without Youth (Un’altra giovinezza, 2007), Tetro (Segreti di famiglia, 2009), Twixt (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, produttore/director, story, screenplay, producer
Francis Ford Coppola
fotografia/cinematography
Mihai Malaimare Jr
montaggio/film editing
Kevin Bailey, Glen Scantlebury, Robert Schafer
scenografia/production design
Jimmy DiMarcellis
costumi/costume design
Marjorie Bowers
musica/music
Osvaldo Golijov, Dan Deacon
suono/sound
Richard Beggs
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Val Kilmer (Hall Baltimore), Bruce Dern (Bobby LaGrange), Ben Chaplin (Edgar Allan Poe), Elle Fanning (V), Joanne Whalley (Denise), David Paymer (Sam Malkin), Alden Ehrenreich (Flamingo), Anthony Fusco (il Pastore/Pastor Allan Floyd), Don Novello (Melvin), Ryan Simpkins (Carolyne), Lucas Rice Jordan (P. J.), Bruce A. Miroglio (l’agente/Deputy Arbus), Tom Waits
produzione/production
American Zoetrope
distribuzione/distribution
Movies Inspired
vendita all’estero/world sales
Pathé International
