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Coppola's first feature film was Dementia 13 (1963). While on location in Ireland for The Young Racers, Corman persuaded Coppola to use that film's leftover funds to make a low-budget horror movie. [29] Coppola wrote a brief draft in one night, incorporating elements from Hitchcock's Psycho, [37] and the result impressed Corman enough to give ...
Coppola in 1976. Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer whose career spans more than sixty years. Coppola has directed twenty-three feature films to date. His films The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now are often cited among the greatest films ever made ...
Megalopolis [a] is a 2024 American epic science fiction drama film written, directed, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola.The film features an ensemble cast of Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal, Chloe Fineman, James Remar, D. B. Sweeney, and Dustin ...
Initially, the film was to be a romantic comedy, but Coppola wanted a more ambitious production, raising the film's budget from $15 million to $23 million, paying for miniatures and lavish backgrounds. The film was almost entirely shot on Zoetrope soundstages. Coppola insisted on building sets to add to the artificiality of the proscenium. [9]
The Conversation is a 1974 American neo-noir [2] mystery thriller film written, produced, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.It stars Gene Hackman as surveillance expert who faces a moral dilemma when his recordings reveal a potential murder.
The Great Gatsby is a 1974 American historical romantic drama film based on the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.The film was directed by Jack Clayton, produced by David Merrick, and written by Francis Ford Coppola.
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.
The film centers on a middle-class housewife (Knight), who runs away from her husband after learning she is pregnant. Coppola's fifth directorial work, The Rain People was released by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts on 27 August 1969 and received generally positive reviews from critics. It won the Golden Shell at the 1969 San Sebastian Film Festival.