"Can't change time. Time changes you."

And also

"You gotta have a lot of story, none of that style bullshit."

Twixt, a power struggle on the road to timelessness. Kilmer's dreams are another step toward the past, his interests shift, evolve, progress, yet his search is a constant means of discovery with regard to things that have already happened - things he already knows - Kilmer, until now, has just refused to accept the facts. Time is merely a distortion of integrity, stop trying to outrun it and then honesty may be found. Coppola's greatest achievement.

"I don't have an ending."

Also:

"Keeping track of time around here is pointless."

And:

"Oh, be careful what you do..."

Finally:

"It was a town of those who wanted to be left alone. And so they were."

70

A half-remembered daydream.

i just found out that coppola lost his son in a speedboating accident and that he incorporated his life and trauma with the death of his boy into this film, he positions himself as val kilmer who loses his child in the film the same way. 25 years of grieving and still he had to put it into this film, his grief, his suffering and the state of consciousness where he can maybe deal with it after all this time. he'll always be gone and the scars never fade, your child being dead for longer than he was alive leaves an emotional wound that i can't possibly imagine dealing with. this is the closest he can get to catharsis, putting it into his art, trying to continue and process the pain with his films. the film was already so deeply profound and now it hits  harder than just about anything. 
rest in peace, gian-carlo, your memory will always live on

Why

RIDE THE SNAKE

Coppola’s campy gothic horror is a silly, hilarious, unsettling, convoluted mess of ideas, in the best possible way. The shockingly personal and autobiographical meta parallels make this such a fascinating film that transcends itself beyond the surface amusement of Coppola directing something so low brow. Twixt is one of the most purposeful hot messes I have ever seen and this watch was full of the same laughs and occasional Lynchian thrills, but the emotion and pain at the centre was much more palpable this time around for me. I was genuinely pretty affected by quite a few scenes, going into it knowing the overall story as well as Coppola’s personal relation to it. Twixt is a delightful mismash of genre and tone that is admirable on so many different levels and unlike anything I have ever seen. It is still the most interesting VA film I have seen by FAR.

96%

Twixt is not the cheap pulpy horror film it would have you believe it is, on the contrary it was forged from a deep-seated personal reckoning of one of life's most heartbreaking tragedies, a parent losing their child. In perhaps his darkest film, Francis abandons his prestige for a discounted personification of himself that speaks to a self-reflection of his place as an artist and reconciling with unfathomable grief, yet the film itself is far from mediocrity. It is humble storytelling that never sours itself with unnecessary pretentiousness.

Film # 2 of Hoop-Tober 2.0

Outside a few sequences of creepy visuals, this film is nothing more than a silly incoherent mess. The acting is unbelievably bad. Val Kilmer's character was a drunk author and I'm convinced he was actually wasted on set; he seemed so lost and confused. I'm still trying to process that Francis Ford Coppola is responsible for this. Yikes.

daylight’s fashionable glossy hyperreality is transformed into near-monochrome gothic fantasia at night. radical discontinuties of time, running too fast and too much and yet frozen by grief. Coppola exorcises the ghosts which narrative forms silence and brick over; the ground we stand on is revealed to be nothing but tombstones (Edgar Allan Poe stayed there once, didn’t you know?). abrasive juxtaposition (spatial, temporal, and tonal) tears at the insides of a tired genre exercise until it’s as bleeding and battered as the innocence it exploits, only to finally put a stake through its own still-beating heart. the most immolating horror film of the decade, convinced none of us have grappled with this nearly enough

“you are the ending you seek”

That’s a weird movie, I loved it

Twixt is not the cheap pulpy horror film it would have you believe it is, on the contrary it was forged from a deep-seated personal reckoning of one of life's most heartbreaking tragedies, a parent losing their child. In perhaps his darkest film, Francis abandons his prestige for a discounted personification of himself that speaks to a self-reflection of his place as an artist and reconciling with unfathomable grief, yet the film itself is far from mediocrity. It is humble storytelling that never sours itself with unnecessary pretentiousness.

FFC sure has some unconventional coping mechanisms

*pulls out an ouja board*..." I'm an innovative detective"

I've never been so confused by a film in the sense of was it good? Am I stupid for not liking it? Was it intentionally shot like that or is it just bad? I truly don't know hehehe

This movie is so good and nobody talks about it

I don't know what is worse that Francis Ford Coppola directed it or that Val Kilmer starred in this piece of crap.
This makes movies of the week look better than the godfather.

The guy who directed this directed the Godfather.

Man which one is the rule and what is the exception.

I have yet to see his other movies after 2000, but if this is any indication they probably suck.

In his defense he was in his seventies for these but if you are too old retire.

Don't die whaling into the night.
Kicking and screaming.
Go out on top like a giant.

He has a dozen classics.

This film is just a great gothic piece of work that is Coppola doing his later art house thing and for me it just works. 

The story is very simple smashed together with an almost twin peaks logic and i think if it didn’t have that it would not work at all! 

I loved this when i was at uni and for me other than a few nit picks it still really holds up!

ماني قادر اصدق ان الرجل اللي كتب وأخر العراب والقيامه الان هو نفسه اللي كتب واخرج هذا الفيلم المعفن

It took me an entire day to watch this film because about half way through the film I kept finding other things to do. Such as paying bills, doing the dishes, trying to figure what the cat was looking at, making chocolate chip walnut cookies, going to the library, researching gigantic wasps in China and so forth.

I did not like this film.

I found it comical, absurd, disorienting, and a bit insulting. I'm not sure if this is considered a vampire film because there are goth kids in it, or a murder mystery because there is a bumbling sheriff in it, or a ghost tale because the main character's daughter is haunting his memories.