Francis Ford Coppola (director). Megalopolis . 2024. In 1979 The Cloud Club, a swanky members-only dinner club at the three very top floors of the Chrysler Building, closed after fifty years under the pressures of the city’s fiscal crisis. It had been famous for serving grapefruits that were twice the normal size. After that, the cramped views through those triangular windows and the peculiar curved profiles up in the tip made the building’s top floors hard to rent. They sat empty until the canted walls and low ceilings were discovered by an unglamorous profession indifferent to distant vistas, and for whom working hunched over and closer to the floor was not a drawback: dentists. There are no dentists in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis , much of which takes place at a lofty and ethereal architecture studio in the Chrysler Building’s tip.…