Francis Ford Coppola is 86 years old, or “fifty-thirty-six,” he told the audience at the Tomorrow Theater, as he wants to die in his 50s (may he reach fifty-fifty). He remembers a time before websites and credit cards, when his elders grew up without modern passports. Coppola’s team reached out to the Portland Art Museum’s Center for an Untold Tomorrow to host a one-off event from his Live Nation tour for Megalopolis , his polarizing 2024 experimental epic starring Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf and Jon Voight.

Megalopolis is bursting with ideas, and its director was no exception when he took to the stage immediately after the film ended. Coppola and his assistant, acting coach Austin Cauldwell (who interacted with the movie midscreening)

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