“Megalopolis” and “Joker: Folie à Deux”; or, The Virtue of Burning Money
Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making science fiction fable “Megalopolis” was financed with his own wealth, the result of selling off part of his vineyards, and has the hallmarks of a labor of love in which nobody could say no to him about any aspect, even budget or running time. Which is not to say that it’s…