About this episode
For the seventh episode of our special retrospective season, we’re looking back to our season on the awesome movie year of 1984 to feature another major box-office flop, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club . Directed and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, Lonette McKee and Bob Hoskins, The Cotton Club was part of a string of commercial failures for Coppola. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-cotton-club-1984 ), Paul Attanasio in The Washington Post ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1984/12/14/cotton-club-coppolas-triumph/068c926c-9d69-4463-bc44-ec4eb1ac152c/ ), and Pauline Kael in The New Yorker . Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for our next retrospective installment covering the awesome movie year of 1994, featuring our producer David Rosen’s pick, Alex Proyas’ The Crow .