Francis Ford Coppola will set down at the Venice Film Festival this week to give the Laudatio speech honoring Werner Herzog as the German Oscar-nominated documentarian is awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the opening ceremony on Wednesday.
Both directors are also being celebrated in the program of the festival’s 82nd edition, running from September 27 to September 6.
The Godfather and Apocalypse Now director Coppola, who received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice’s 49th edition in 1992, is the subject of Mike Figgis’ documentary Megadoc.
The film, going behind-the-scenes of Coppola’s passion project Megalopolis, plays as part of the Venice Classics – Documentaries About Cinema section on Thursday.
Herzog will present his new documentary Ghost Elephants, about the search for a mysterious herd of elephants reportedly living in in the highlands of Angola, Out of Competition on Thursday. The director will also hold a Masterclass on the same day.
Herzog has previously attended Venice with Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done which both played in competition in 2009 as well as The Wild Blue Yonder and Invincible and Scream of Stone.
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