COPPOLA'S BACK - NEW TRAILER!

A teaser trailer for legendary director Francis Ford Coppola's new film "Youth Without Youth" has been released. It's an odd trailer, certainly. A love story wrapped in a mystery, the film is based on the 1976 novel by Romanian-born religious historian Mircea Eliade.

It's set in Europe before WWII and centers on a timid professor who is changed by a cataclysmic event and thus, explores the mysteries of life.

According to Wikipedia:

It's Coppola's first directed film since 1997's "The Rainmaker." It will be distributed through Sony Pictures Classics in the United States and Pathé in the UK and France.

Coppola made this film after a decade-long hiatus from directing. The movie has been screened in front of friends and fellow directors after the 79th Academy Awards Ceremony (in which he was a presenter). Martin Scorsese, Dennis Hopper, Andy Garcia, Matt Dillon, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Spike Jonze, John Singleton, the Hughes Brothers, Alfonso Cuarón, Gus Van Sant and Fred Roos attended the screening. It has been said that overall the film is "Good, but very difficult."

Coppola has gone on record as saying that the movie is very personal, and not a standard Hollywood film. Originally the movie was to be distributed by United Artists, which is now partially owned by Tom Cruise (who worked with Coppola on "The Outsiders"). However, Sony Pictures Classics is going to handle a limited US release of the film on December 14, 2007.