In “ Megadoc ,” Mike Figgis, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker of “Leaving Las Vegas,” dishes about the chaotic making of “ Megalopolis ,” Francis Ford Coppola ‘s self-produced $120 million experimental epic.

Who better than Figgis to capture the 83-year-old cinema legend’s creative frenzy as he set off to make “Megalopolis,” a long dreamed-about passion project, with his own money and no distributor on board? Aside from knowing Coppola for decades (he met him while directing Nicolas Cage in “Leaving Last Vegas” in 1996), the British filmmaker has also worked in documentaries, tracing the life and career of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood in “Somebody Up There Likes Me” in 2019.

Figgis was on the ground Thursday to introduce the world premiere of “Megadoc” at Venice Classics, and

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