Coppola / Peter Cowie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowie, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coppola, Francis Ford, 1939-.

Coppola, Francis Ford.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

288 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montclair, New Jersey : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2014.

Summary:

At the age of thirty-two, Francis Coppola came to prominence as the director of The Godfather, which rapidly climbed to the top of the rankings as one of the greatest movies ever made. Two years later, Coppola won the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival for The Conversation. In 1979, his savage epic of the Vietnam war, Apocalypse Now, established him as the most visionary and charismatic film-maker of his generation. Since then, Coppola has won numerous awards around the world for his work as both a director and producer. Over the years, Coppola has introduced such talents as Matt Dillon, Nicolas Cage, Talia Shire and Tom Cruise, and many of the greatest screen actors of the past fifty years have done their finest work in his films, such as Marlon Brando in The Godfather and Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now. Peter Cowie paints a vivid and penetrating portrait of a man who has made an inestimable contribution to the film industry, as a director, as a producer and as a mentor to others - not least to his daughter, Sofia - and who continues to fascinate film fans across the world. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Italian Connection 14

2 The Studio Grind 31

3 Independence and the Dream of Zoetrope 44

4 The Godfather 59

5 Picking Up the Conversation 78

6 Back to Corleone 90

7 Lost in the Jungle 112

8 Blows to the Heart 137

9 Back to Back in Tulsa 158

10 Playing The Cotton Club 169

11 From Rip van Winkle to Peggy Sue 181

12 Tragedy and Revival 191

13 Tucker - The Dream Triumphant 200

14 An Offer He Couldn't Refuse 210

15 From Stoker to Grisham 221

16 From Mega to Mini 236

17 Back to the Future 251.

Notes:

Originally published in 1989.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

1480355577

9781480355576

OCLC:

855957995