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1 day ago · Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
2 days ago · Her win for Best Original Screenplay (along with her cousin Nicolas Cage's 1996 win for Best Actor) resulted in her family becoming the second three-generation Oscar-winning family, with her grandfather Carmine Coppola and her father Francis Ford Coppola having previously won Oscars as well.
1 day ago · The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film [ 2 ] directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel.
4 days ago · One from the Heart’s disastrous release imploded Coppola’s dream, one he had held for much of his career: total independence from the Hollywood studios.. After that, Coppola steadily worked for the rest of the decade, starting his 1983 S. E. Hinton duology, The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, with both films featuring up and coming youth s
2 days ago · Francis Ford Coppola intended “Apocalypse Now” as an epic, but it is only in the five-hour workprint that there is a genuine sense of an epic achievement. It is a chaotic, overwhelming, maddening portrait of conflicted souls thrown into a maelstrom of brutality and stupidity. In its bloated imperfection, the scruffy workprint comes closer ...
1 day ago · Carmine Falcone (John Turturro) is similar to Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), the head of a powerful crime family whose untimely demise sparks a power struggle among his family. Turturro’s ...
3 days ago · Historians characterize the Catilinarian conspiracy as the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire—which director Francis Ford Coppola compares to modern-day America.
