Youth Without Youth

Starring: Tim Roth, Bruno Ganz
Director: Francis Ford Copolla
Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 12/04/07

Content from wikipedia: Youth Without Youth is a 2007 film by Francis Ford Coppola, based on a novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade.

It is Francis Ford Coppola’s first directed film since 1997’s The Rainmaker. It will be distributed through Sony Pictures Classics in the United States and Pathé in the UK and France.

Walter Murch edited the film on Final Cut Pro 5. He told the San Francisco Chronicle in May 2007 “It’s very personal… Francis wrote the screenplay based on a book he loves very much, and the treatment is very original. I think people will be surprised when they see it.”

The film was shot with a Sony HDC-F900 in High Definition.

Coppola made this film after a decade-long hiatus from directing. The movie has been screened in front of friends and fellow directors after the 79th Academy Awards Ceremony (in which he was a presenter). Martin Scorsese, Dennis Hopper, Andy Garcia, Matt Dillon, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Spike Jonze, John Singleton, the Hughes Brothers, Alfonso Cuarón, Gus Van Sant and Fred Roos attended the screening. It has been said that overall the film is “Good, but very difficult.”

Coppola has gone on record as saying that the movie is very personal, and not a standard Hollywood film. Originally the movie was to be distributed by United Artists, which is now partially owned by Tom Cruise (who worked with Coppola on The Outsiders). However, Sony Pictures Classics is going to handle a limited US release of the film on December 14, 2007.

It was also announced that a trailer for the film will be on the Collector’s Edition DVD of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, another film by Coppola, which is to be released in early October 2007.

Trailer