That iteration of the film stalled, and in the meantime Golijov scored Coppola’s “Youth Without Youth,” “Tetro” and “Twixt.”

“Megalopolis” is the first new film from the five-time Oscar winner since 2011’s “Twixt” and Coppola is reported to have invested some $120 million of his own money, raised from the sale of part of his wine business, to pay for the ambitious tale.

The first film for the 85-year-old Coppola since his 2011 horror bauble “Twixt,” “Megalopolis,” a personal obsession of the director’s since at least the 1980s, invites words like “summation” and “capstone.”

Grandpa replies, “Naw, you livin’ cause you had the good sense to fall down ‘twixt them tracks.”

“Enough is known about matter, organized and unorganized, to assure us that there may be things ’twixt heaven and earth which are not so alive as an eel or so dead as a rock,” The Times wrote.