Francis Ford Coppola

Cannes 2009: 'Tetro' reviews roundup Francis Ford Coppola returned to the Cannes Film Festival with his self-financed film, "Tetro." As the first film to go before the critics at the fest, Coppola's film faces a tough crowd. But the...

In this article: Tetro, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, Michael Phillips, Cannes Film Festival, and The Conversation

...that its subject is one of the greatest works of modern cinema. At the Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola said of Apocalypse Now (1978): "My film is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. " For once in the history of moviemaking, such...

In this article: Terry Gilliam, Werner Herzog, Shelley Duvall, Raymond Carver, Danny Lloyd, Short Cuts, Jack Nicholson, Robert Altman, and Vivian Kubrick

...Cannes Film Festival. "August Coppola was a singularly creative leader who for almost a decade inspired the students and faculty of our school of Creative Arts," recalled San Francisco State President Robert Corrigan. "He reminded us all of...

In this article: San Francisco State University, Jerry Brown, High School of the Arts, and Occidental College

...the 1974 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Following the success of The Godfather, The Conversation and The Godfather Part II, Coppola began filming Apocalypse Now, an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness set in Cambodia...

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Francis Ford Coppola gets personal Francis Ford Coppola: Director Francis Ford Coppola signs autographs at the Cannes Film Festival. The director, 70, reemerges with 'Tetro,' a grand yet heartfelt story of an Argentine family at times...

In this article: Tetro, Vincent Gallo, The Conversation, The Catcher in the Rye, Roberto Bolano, Buenos Aires, and Latin American literature

...sidetracked him. Showing at this year's Cannes film festival, which opened on May 13th, "Tetro" is Mr Coppola's second feature after ten years of silence and only the fourth he has made from a story of his own devising. One of these,...

In this article: Tetro, Vincent Gallo, Cannes Film Festival, Dementia 13, Klaus Maria Brandauer, The Godfather, and Buenos Aires

Arts, Briefly: Coppola Movie to Open Directors' Fortnight Coppola Movie to Open Directors' Fortnight A new film by Francis Ford Coppola will open Directors' Fortnight, the annual French film series held independently from but parallel to...

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Coppola heading Cannes sidebar Coppola's films include Apocalypse Now, Dracula and The Conversation Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola will open the Directors' Fortnight at this year's Cannes Film Festival with his latest work Tetro.

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It was friction between the filmmaker's father, composer Carmine Coppola, and his uncle, opera conductor Anton Coppola, that helped inspire the director's latest film, "Tetro," premiering Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival. It...

In this article: Anton Coppola, Tetro, Youth Without Youth, Cannes Film Festival, One from the Heart, Academy Award, Carmine Coppola, and A Streetcar Named Desire