For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Joe ClayThe DirectorsSky Arts/Now TV, 9pmThe fifth run of the superlative series on film directors features some serious Hollywood heavyweights. Future episodes profile Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone, but we begin tonight with Francis Ford Coppola, whose career spans 60 years and includes Apocalypse Now and the Godfather trilogy. It’s a simple yet effective format — a brisk, chronological run-through of the career of a film-maker, featuring clips from their films, introduced and analysed by a rotating roster of erudite critics, although the criticism is minimal. They are here to celebrate, not denigrate. After a potted history of his childhood, we get to the meat of the Coppola

Source: The Times July 01, 2020 22:52 UTC