By 1982 Francis Ford Coppola had won five Academy Awards; at the same time he was over $20 million in debt following the disastrous failure of One from the Heart. This astute biography critically examines Coppola’s singular vision and why it makes such paradoxes not only possible but prevalent in his long turbulent career. At the age of 32 Coppola became a superstar in Hollywood with The Godfather, which rapidly climbed to the top of the all-time box-office hits. Two years later he won the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes festival for The Conversation. His savage epic of the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Now, established him as the most daring, brilliant filmmaker of his generation. This book not only goes behind the cameras to track the creative and financial turmoil involved in his productions, but offers perceptive analyses of his films, including all three parts of The Godfather and the visually stunning remake of Dracula. Based on three years of research and exclusive interviews with the subject, Coppola illuminates the director’s rise to prominence, his personal tragedies, intermittent failures, and resurgent successes with telling insights into the shaping of his artistic sensibility. This is a spirited, penetrating study of a man whose films have a strange way of mirroring his own sometimes tempestuous life.
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Peter Cowie is founding editor of the annual International Film Guide and author of The Cinema of Orson Welles (available from Da Capo Press/Perseus Books Group) and Ingmar Bergman: A Critical Biography. He is now senior international advisor to the publication and lives in London.
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Francis Ford Coppola was born on April 7, 1939, in the Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, the second son of Carmine Coppola and his wife, Italia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Peggy Sue, San Francisco, The Outsiders, George Lucas, Los Angeles, United States, Michael Corleone, Gardens of Stone, Finian's Rainbow, Francis Coppola, Don Vito, United Artists, Las Vegas, Motorcycle Boy, Bay Area, Carroll Ballard, Lake Tahoe, Zoetrope Studios, Dean Tavoularis, Harry Caul, Fred Roos, Mario Puzo, Orson Welles, Hyman Roth New!
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Francis Ford Coppola was born on April 7, 1939, in the Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, the second son of Carmine Coppola and his wife, Italia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Peggy Sue, San Francisco, The Outsiders, George Lucas, Los Angeles, United States, Michael Corleone, Gardens of Stone, Finian's Rainbow, Francis Coppola, Don Vito, United Artists, Las Vegas, Motorcycle Boy, Bay Area, Carroll Ballard, Lake Tahoe, Zoetrope Studios, Dean Tavoularis, Harry Caul, Fred Roos, Mario Puzo, Orson Welles, Hyman Roth New!
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- Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola on 43 pages
- The Cotton Club (St Martin's Original Screenplay Series) by Francis Ford Coppola on 18 pages
- Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad on 6 pages
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- Citizen Kane (Screenplay) by Orson Welles on 6 pages
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- Afterimage: The Indelible Catholic Imagination of Six American Flim Makers by Richard Aloysius Blake in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy (Cambridge Film Handbooks) by Nick Browne in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Overhearing Film Dialogue by Sarah Kozloff in Back Matter
- Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture by Prof. Richard Burt in Back Matter
- The Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films by Kevin Hillstrom on page 14
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