Lost in Toronto: "I had my entire family here, and we all knew this for two weeks. I went to their films, and I went to their parties to support them. They're gone, and my film screens tonight. Why is that?" Christopher Coppola says, taking a sip of espresso and flashing a devilish grin. "I think it's because they are scared of me." Cutting an imposing figure — topped off by a pale bald pate and jet-black goatee — the relatively unknown Coppola is talking about his role in the famous Coppola clan the same week the first family of film hit the Toronto International Film Festival en masse for Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation" and "Matchstick Men," starring brother Nicolas Cage, both official selections at this year's fest. "Bloodhead," the film the other Coppolas chose to miss, is Christopher Coppola's "homage to the drive-in movie" that tells of twins of different races who must battle an evil occult sect and stars a cast a network might have killed for in the mid-1970s: Lynda Carter, Bernie Kopell, Shiriey Jones and Frank Gorshin all appear. Describing himself as "Barnum-esque" and clearly having a good time as the enfant terrible, Coppola isn't planning on relinquishing his status anytime soon as the "bad boy" of the bunch. "People tell me, 'You're the maverick; you're the bad boy.' I'm the pimple on the otherwise perfect skin. So my idea is, 'OK, I'll embrace that.' And I've got the shoulders to keep going." His next project is a "biker Macbeth," a "heavy-metal rock opera" blending shock absorbers and Shakespeare that he will shoot in New Mexico. But the director of "G-Men From Hell" and "Dracula's Widow" also has a softer side: His dream is to shoot a script he wrote for "The Black Stallion 3."

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