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90-490: The film was released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber on September 29, 2020. In the opening credits, a lively Latino dances through the fields of Milagro, New Mexico . Ladd Devine, a real estate mogul, has plans to build a grand vacation retreat in the area, potentially the largest in the state. Local resident Joe Mondragon is eager for work at the construction site but faces rejection, despite his willingness to take on any task. He confides in an elder neighbor about his concerns over

180-482: A $ 13 million budget. Coppola reunited with George Lucas, who served as executive producer, and directed Tucker: The Man and His Dream the year after that. The film is a biopic based on the life of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the Tucker '48 ; Coppola had originally conceived the project as a musical with Marlon Brando leading after the release of The Godfather Part II . Ultimately, it

270-541: A Beckerman Award for his outstanding contributions to the school's theater arts division. While a graduate student, Coppola studied under professor Dorothy Arzner , whose encouragement was later acknowledged as pivotal to Coppola's career. After earning his theater arts degree from Hofstra in 1960, Coppola enrolled in UCLA Film School . There, he directed a short horror film, The Two Christophers , inspired by Edgar Allan Poe 's " William Wilson " and Ayamonn

360-417: A brief draft in one night, incorporating elements from Hitchcock's Psycho , and the result impressed Corman enough to give the go-ahead. On a budget of $ 40,000 ($ 20,000 from Corman and $ 20,000 from another producer who wanted to buy the movie's English rights), Coppola directed Dementia 13 over the course of nine days. The film recouped its expenses and later became a cult film among horror buffs. It

450-549: A chance. He decided to name his future studio "Zoetrope" after receiving a gift of zoetropes from Mogens Scot-Hansen, founder of a studio called Lanterna Film and owner of a famous collection of early motion picture-making equipment. While touring Europe, Coppola was introduced to alternative filmmaking equipment and, inspired by the bohemian spirit of Lanterna Film, decided he would build a deviant studio that would conceive and implement unconventional approaches to filmmaking. Upon his return home, Coppola and George Lucas searched for

540-474: A dialogue director for Tower of London (1962), sound man for The Young Racers (1963) and associate producer and one of many uncredited directors for The Terror (1963). Coppola's first feature-length film was Dementia 13 (1963). While on location in Ireland for The Young Racers in 1963, Corman persuaded Coppola to use that film's leftover funds to make a low-budget horror movie. Coppola wrote

630-509: A family of 2nd-degree Italian immigrants. His paternal grandparents came to the United States from Bernalda , Basilicata . His maternal grandfather, popular Italian composer Francesco Pennino, emigrated from Naples , Italy . At the time of Coppola's birth, his father—in addition to being a flautist—was an arranger and assistant orchestra director for The Ford Sunday Evening Hour , an hour-long concert music radio series sponsored by

720-407: A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton . Coppola credited his inspiration for making the film to a suggestion from middle school students who had read the novel. The Outsiders is notable for being the breakout film for a number of young actors who would go on to become major stars. These included major roles for Matt Dillon , Ralph Macchio , and C. Thomas Howell . Also in

810-467: A film with such a title, as the audience would supposedly believe that, having already seen The Godfather , there was little reason to see an addition to the original film. However, the success of The Godfather Part II began the Hollywood tradition of numbered sequels. The movie was released in 1974 and went on to receive tremendous critical acclaim, with many deeming it superior to its predecessor. It

900-482: A filmmaker was cemented with the release of The Godfather (1972) which won three Academy Awards for Best Picture , Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay and revolutionized the gangster genre of filmmaking, receiving strong commercial and critical reception. He directed The Godfather Part II (1974) which also won Best Picture with Coppola earning the Best Director . Also in 1974, Coppola released

990-416: A free ad-supported streaming channel for genre films . It also entered into a distribution and acquisition agreement with Milestone Films , a New York–based film company known for restoring and distribution of American classic films. On August 29, 2023, Kino Lorber announced via email that "Kino Cult" was being replaced by "The Midnight Picture Show," "a new free streaming service featuring more movies from

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1080-491: A gently barbed level of social commentary, although this is something that comes surprisingly light-heartedly. There’s an enchantment to the film – at times it is a more successful version of the folklore fable that Francis Ford Coppola 's Finian's Rainbow (1968) tried to be but failed." Scheib believes the film is "one of the first American films to fall into the Latin American tradition of magical realism . This

1170-550: A low sum and budget after the poor reception of his latest film The Rain People . Coppola initially turned down the job because he found Puzo's novel sleazy and sensationalist, describing it as "pretty cheap stuff". At the time, Coppola's studio American Zoetrope owed over $ 400,000 to Warner Bros. for budget overruns in the film THX 1138 and, when coupled with his poor financial standing, along with advice from friends and family, Coppola reversed his initial decision and took

1260-526: A mansion in Marin County to house the studio. However, in 1969, with equipment flowing in and no mansion found yet, the first home for Zoetrope Studio became a warehouse in San Francisco on Folsom Street . The studio went on to become an early adopter of digital filmmaking, including some of the earliest uses of HDTV . In his 1968 book The American Cinema , Andrew Sarris wrote: "[Coppola]

1350-528: A masterpiece of the New Hollywood era and is frequently cited as one of the greatest movies ever made. Roger Ebert considered it to be the finest film on the Vietnam War and included it in his list for the 2002 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the greatest movies ever made. In 2001, Coppola re-released Apocalypse Now as Apocalypse Now Redux , restoring several sequences lost from

1440-458: A member of Writers Guild of America West , left and maintained financial core status in 1986. Also in 1986, Coppola released the comedy Peggy Sue Got Married starring Kathleen Turner , Coppola's nephew Nicolas Cage , and Jim Carrey . Much like The Outsiders and Rumble Fish , Peggy Sue Got Married centered around teenage youth. The film earned Coppola positive feedback and provided Kathleen Turner her first and only Oscar nomination. It

1530-412: A plush New Mexico resort town. And then there are characters who seem to come from a more fanciful time, like Mondragon, whose original rebellion is more impulsive than studied." Critic Richard Scheib liked the film's direction and the characters portrayed. He wrote, "Redford arrays a colorfully earthy ensemble of characters. The plot falls into place with lazy, deceptive ease. Redford places it up against

1620-601: A production assistant on his next film The Rain People in 1969. The Rain People was written, directed, and initially produced by Coppola himself, though as the movie advanced, he exceeded his budget and the studio had to underwrite the remainder of the movie. The film won the Golden Shell at the 1969 San Sebastian Film Festival . In 1969, Coppola wanted to subvert the studio system, which he felt had stifled his visions, intending to produce mainstream pictures to finance off-beat projects and give first-time directors

1710-453: A theater arts major. There, he was awarded a scholarship in playwriting. This furthered his interest in directing theater, though his father disapproved and wanted him to study engineering. Coppola was profoundly impressed by Sergei Eisenstein 's film October: Ten Days That Shook the World , especially the quality of its editing , and decided to pursue cinema rather than theater. He said he

1800-531: A worthwhile whole." The film was screened out of competition at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival . Veteran jazz pianist and composer Dave Grusin contributed the film's original music. A formal soundtrack album has never been released, although tracks from the score were included as a bonus suite on Grusin's 1989 album Migration . Kino Lorber Kino Lorber is an international film distribution company based in New York City . Founded in 1977, it

1890-627: A year. Both Schafer's film and The Peeper featured Marli Renfro, so the producers paid Coppola $ 500 to combine the two films. After Coppola re-edited the picture, it was released in 1962 as the softcore comedy Tonight for Sure . Another production company, Screen Rite Pictures, hired Coppola to do a similar job: re-cutting a German film titled Mit Eva fing die Sünde an  [ de ] ( Sin Began with Eve ), directed by Fritz Umgelter . Coppola added new color footage with British model June Wilkinson and other nude starlets. The re-edited film

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1980-413: Is a genre that usually involves an earthily naturalistic, often highly romanticized, blend of the supernatural and whimsical." The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 61% of critics gave the film a positive rating, based on 33 reviews. The consensus states: "Arguably Robert Redford's most inchoate work, The Milagro Beanfield War has plenty of beautiful moments, but they don't quite add up to

2070-560: Is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the leading figures of the New Hollywood film movement and is widely considered one of the greatest directors of all time. Coppola is the recipient of five Academy Awards , six Golden Globe Awards , two Palmes d'Or , and a BAFTA Award . After directing The Rain People in 1969, Coppola co-wrote Patton (1970), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with Edmund H. North . Coppola's reputation as

2160-667: Is an actress, his daughter Sofia is a director, his son Roman is a screenwriter, and his nephews Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage are actors. Coppola resides in Napa, California , and since the 2010s has been a vintner , owning a family-branded winery of his own. Francis Ford Coppola was born in Detroit , Michigan , to father Carmine Coppola (1910–1991), a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra , and mother Italia Coppola (née Pennino; 1912–2004),

2250-632: Is probably the first reasonably talented and sensibly adaptable directorial talent to emerge from a university curriculum in film-making ... [He] may be heard from more decisively in the future." Coppola was at the forefront of a group of filmmakers known as " New Hollywood " that emerged in the early 1970s, with ideas that challenged conventional filmmaking. The group included George Lucas , Martin Scorsese , Brian De Palma , Steven Spielberg , Terrence Malick , Robert Altman , Woody Allen , William Friedkin , and Philip Kaufman . Coppola co-wrote

2340-597: The Academy Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Coppola. The film routinely features at the top in various polls for the greatest movies ever. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry , and was ranked third, behind Citizen Kane and Casablanca , on the initial AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list by the American Film Institute in 1997. It

2430-627: The Ford Motor Company . Coppola was born at Henry Ford Hospital , and those two connections to Henry Ford inspired the Coppolas to choose the middle name "Ford" for their son. Francis is the middle of three children: his older brother was August Coppola , and his younger sister is actress Talia Shire . Two years after Coppola's birth, his father was named principal flutist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra , and

2520-721: The Vietnam War . Coppola himself briefly cameos as a TV news director. The production of the film was plagued by numerous problems, including typhoons, nervous breakdowns, the firing of Harvey Keitel , Martin Sheen 's heart attack, and extras from the Philippine military and half of the supplied helicopters leaving in the middle of scenes to fight rebels. It was delayed so often it was nicknamed Apocalypse When? The 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse , directed by Francis's wife, Eleanor Coppola , who

2610-459: The " Life Without Zoë " segment, starring his sister Talia Shire , and also co-wrote the film with his daughter Sofia . "Life Without Zoë" was mostly panned by critics and was generally considered to be the segment that brought the film's overall quality down. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote a particularly scathing review, stating: "It's impossible to know what Francis Coppola's Life Without Zoë is. Co-written with his daughter Sofia,

2700-477: The "100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century" as well as Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list. It was also featured on Sight & Sound 's list of the ten greatest films of all time in 2002, ranking at No. 4. Coppola was the third director to have two nominations for Best Picture in the same year. Victor Fleming was the first in 1939 with Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz ; Alfred Hitchcock repeated

2790-682: The Terrible , a film about a sculptor's nightmares coming to life. He also met undergraduate film major Jim Morrison , future frontman of The Doors . Coppola later used Morrison's song " The End " in Apocalypse Now . In the early 1960s, Coppola made $ 10 per week (roughly equivalent to $ 100 per week today). Looking for a way to earn some extra money, he found that many colleagues from film school made money filming erotic productions known as "nudie-cuties" or "skin flicks", which showed nudity without implying any sexual act. At 21, Coppola wrote

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2880-503: The Third Army, set against a huge American flag. Coppola and North had to tone down Patton's actual language to avoid an R rating ; in the opening monologue, the word "fornicating" replaced "fucking" when criticizing The Saturday Evening Post . Over the years, this opening monologue has become an iconic scene and has spawned parodies in numerous films, political cartoons, and television shows. The release of The Godfather in 1972

2970-545: The Watergate break-in. However, the audience interpreted the film as a reaction to both the Watergate scandal and its fallout. The movie was a critical success and got Coppola his first Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival . During the filming of The Conversation , Coppola wrote the screenplay for The Great Gatsby . However, in the commentary track to the DVD of The Godfather, Coppola states, "I don't think that script

3060-480: The basis of Brando's screen test, which also won over the Paramount leadership. Brando later won an Academy Award for his portrayal, which he refused to accept. Coppola would later recollect: The Godfather was a very unappreciated movie when we were making it. They were very unhappy with it. They didn't like the cast. They didn't like the way I was shooting it. I was always on the verge of getting fired. So it

3150-549: The box office, earning a meager $ 2.5 million against a $ 10 million budget and once again aggravating Coppola's financial troubles. In 1984, Coppola directed the Robert Evans -produced The Cotton Club . The film was nominated for several awards, including the Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture (Drama) and Oscars for Best Film Editing and Best Art-Direction. However, the film failed miserably at

3240-553: The box-office, earning only $ 25.9 million of the $ 47.9 million privately invested by brothers Fred and Ed Doumani. The same year, he directed an episode of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre entitled "Rip Van Winkle" (based on the short story ), where Harry Dean Stanton played the lead role. In 1986, Coppola directed Captain EO , a 17-minute space fantasy for Disney theme parks executive produced by George Lucas , starring singer Michael Jackson . Coppola, formerly

3330-493: The cast to the Napa Valley for much of the outdoor shooting, but those scenes were in sharp contrast to those filmed on a Hollywood soundstage, resulting in a disjointed look to the film. Dealing with outdated material at a time when the popularity of film musicals was already waning, Clark received a Golden Globe Best Actress nomination. The film introduced Coppola to George Lucas , who became his lifelong friend as well as

3420-529: The cast were Patrick Swayze , Rob Lowe (in his film debut), Emilio Estevez , Diane Lane , and Tom Cruise . Matt Dillon and several others also starred in Coppola's related film Rumble Fish , which was also based on an S. E. Hinton novel and filmed at the same time as The Outsiders on-location in Tulsa, Oklahoma . Carmine Coppola wrote and edited the musical score, including the title song "Stay Gold", which

3510-418: The casting of Coppola's daughter Sofia , who stepped into the leading role of Mary Corleone , which was abandoned by Winona Ryder just as filming began. Despite this, The Godfather Part III went on to gather seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture . The film failed to win any of these awards, which made it the only film in the trilogy to do so. In September 2020, for

3600-575: The chaos, Bloom is arrested, causing strain between him and Archuleta. The state forestry department tries to seize Mondragon's cow, leading to a standoff defused by Sheriff Bernabe Montoya. Mondragon is offered a foreman position at the construction site, causing conflict with his wife and Archuleta. As tensions escalate, the townsfolk arm themselves, leading to confrontations, including a shootout leaving Amarante injured. Montana pursues Mondragon, who seeks refuge with Shorty. Despite arrests and clashes, Mondragon persists in harvesting his beans. Eventually,

3690-543: The deliciously dark and devilishly bizarre side of cinema." Kino Lorber has historically been known as a distributor of American classics and international films. When founded in 1977, American classics was 100 percent of its distribution, moving to 80/20 with international films by 1989. By 2023, Kino Lorber had over 4,000 titles in its curated library, including: Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola ( / ˈ k oʊ p əl ə / KOH -pə-lə , Italian: [ˈkɔppola] ; born April 7, 1939)

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3780-513: The drought. Desperate for water, Mondragon taps into an irrigation canal, unaware of the legal consequences. News of his actions spreads quickly, catching the attention of Ruby Archuleta, who runs a gas station and repair shop. She seeks help from Charlie Bloom, a socially conscious lawyer and publisher, to address the situation. Meanwhile, sociologist Herbie Platt arrives from the East Coast to study local customs but faces mixed reactions from

3870-559: The end of 2014, including the Billy Wilder films Witness for the Prosecution and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes . In 2017, Kino Lorber entered into a partnership with Zeitgeist Films to co-acquire films for theatrical release and taking over home entertainment distribution of their library. In 2019, Kino Lorber launched a digital streaming service known as "Kino Now." Described as an "arthouse iTunes," it allows

3960-491: The failure of One from the Heart (1982) compelled him to take up Paramount 's long-standing offer to make a third installment. Coppola and Puzo preferred the title The Death of Michael Corleone , but Paramount Pictures found that unacceptable. While not as critically acclaimed as the first two films, it was still commercially successful, earning $ 136 million against a $ 54 million budget. Some reviewers criticized

4050-561: The family moved to New York. They settled in Woodside, Queens , where Coppola spent the remainder of his childhood. Having contracted polio as a boy, Coppola was bedridden for large periods of his childhood, during which he did homemade puppet theater productions. He developed an interest in theater after reading A Streetcar Named Desire at age 15. He created 8 mm feature films edited from home movies with titles such as The Rich Millionaire and The Lost Wallet . Although Coppola

4140-679: The feat the next year with Foreign Correspondent and Rebecca . Since Coppola, two other directors have done the same: Herbert Ross in 1977 with The Goodbye Girl and The Turning Point , and Steven Soderbergh in 2000 with Erin Brockovich and Traffic . Coppola, however, is the only one to have produced the pictures nominated. 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 during

4230-399: The film alienated potential buyers, who did not find the 12-minute short exciting enough to screen in adult theaters . After much rejection, Coppola received an opportunity from Premier Pictures Company, a small production company that invested in an adult production called The Wide Open Spaces , an erotic western written and directed by Jerry Schafer, which had been shelved for more than

4320-412: The film industry today, ended with a disastrous box-office gross of US$ 636,796 against a $ 26-million budget, and he was forced to sell the 23-acre Zoetrope Studio in 1983. He would spend the rest of the decade working to pay off his debts. Zoetrope Studios finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990, after which its name was changed to American Zoetrope . In 1983, he directed The Outsiders ,

4410-432: The film is a mystifying embarrassment; it's by far the director's worst work yet." In 1990, he released the third and final chapter of The Godfather series: The Godfather Part III . Coppola felt that the first two films had told the complete Corleone saga. Coppola intended Part III to be an epilogue to the first two films. In his audio commentary for Part II , he stated that only a dire financial situation caused by

4500-400: The film missed its mark, and wrote, "The screenplay, by David Ward and John Nichols, based on Mr. Nichols's novel, is jammed with underdeveloped, would-be colorful characters, including a philosophical Chicano angel, who face a succession of fearful confrontations with the law that come to nothing. The narrative is a veritable fiesta of anticlimaxes, from the time the sun sets at the beginning of

4590-497: The film project as he saw it. Nichols also described the origin of the novel and the making of the film in the biographical documentary, The Milagro Man: The Irrepressible Multicultural Life and Literary Times of John Nichols , which premiered at the 2012 Albuquerque Film Festival. The film's premiere in three cities was called "risky" and "disappointing" by industry analysts. The film received mixed reviews from critics. Vincent Canby , film critic for The New York Times , believes

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4680-506: The film until it sets, yet again, behind the closing credits." Roger Ebert also gave the film a mixed review and had problems with the film's context, writing, "The result is a wonderful fable, but the problem is, some of the people in the story know it's a fable and others do not. This causes an uncertainty that runs all through the film, making it hard to weigh some scenes against others. There are characters who seem to belong in an angry documentary—like Devine, who wants to turn Milagro into

4770-589: The film utilized the very same surveillance and wire-tapping equipment that members of the Nixon administration used to spy on political opponents prior to the Watergate scandal . Coppola insisted that this was purely coincidental, as the script for The Conversation was completed in the mid-1960s (before the election of Richard Nixon ) and the spying equipment used in the film was developed through research and use of technical advisers and not by newspaper stories about

4860-564: The film's 30th anniversary, it was announced that a new cut of the film titled Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone would have a limited theatrical release in December 2020 followed by digital and Blu-ray. Coppola said the film is the version he and Puzo had originally envisioned, and it "vindicates" its status among the trilogy and his daughter Sofia's performance. In 1992, Coppola directed and produced Bram Stoker's Dracula . Adapted from Bram Stoker 's novel , it

4950-578: The foundation of a silent film collection for Kino International including the 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis . By 1989, American classics accounted for 80 percent of the company's distributions, with the other 20 percent made up of international films . In 2009, Kino International was acquired by Lorber HT Digital to form Kino Lorber. Kino Lorber launched its "Kino Lorber Studio Classics" line of films in 2014. Its licensing deal with MGM allowed them access to MGM's library of remastered and high-definition films. It released approximately 40 films by

5040-528: The governor steps in, halting Devine's project and fostering reconciliation among the townsfolk. Celebrations erupt in the bean field, culminating in a kiss between Archuleta and Bloom. According to an article by Patricia Rodriguez in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram , Robert Redford was interested in filming part of the movie in the Plaza del Cerro of Chimayo, New Mexico , which is argued to be

5130-482: The head of the nontheatrical department. At this time, the company acquired rights to distribute theatrically films in the Janus Films library, which became the foundation for its international library of films. One of the first films imported under Krim was Ballad of Orin . Kino International was responsible for the theatrical release of films by Charlie Chaplin beginning in 1977. The Chaplin films became

5220-624: The job. Coppola was officially announced as director of the film on September 28, 1970. He agreed to receive $ 125,000 and six percent of the gross rentals. Coppola later found a deeper theme for the material and decided it should be not just be a film about organized crime, but also a family chronicle and a metaphor for capitalism in America. There was disagreement between Paramount and Coppola on casting; Coppola wanted to cast Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone , though Paramount wanted either Ernest Borgnine or Danny Thomas . At one point, Coppola

5310-697: The last surviving fortified Spanish plaza in North America. Some locals responded favorably, but many objected to the idea of big business changing the small community, which forced Redford to film the movie in Truchas . In his essay, "Night of the Living Beanfield: How an Unsuccessful Cult Novel Became an Unsuccessful Cult Film in Only Fourteen Years, Eleven Nervous Breakdowns, and $ 20 Million," John Nichols gives an account of

5400-428: The original 1979 cut of the film, thereby expanding its length to 200 minutes. In 2019, Coppola re-released Apocalypse Now once more as Apocalypse Now (Final Cut) , claiming that version to be his favorite. Apocalypse Now marked the end of the 'golden phase' of Coppola's career. His 1982 musical fantasy One from the Heart , although pioneering the use of video-editing techniques that are standard practice in

5490-408: The other of his son Michael . In the director's commentary on the DVD edition of the film (released in 2002), Coppola states that this film was the first major motion picture to use "Part II" in its title. Paramount was initially opposed to his decision to name the movie The Godfather Part II . According to Coppola, the studio's objection stemmed from the belief that audiences would be reluctant to see

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5580-502: The purchase and rentals of films in its distribution library. During the COVID-19 pandemic lock-downs in 2020, Kino Lorber launched an online distribution service to stream new films in partnership with closed theaters. Known as "Kino Marquee," the service was seen as a way to help closed theaters generate revenue during the pandemic, splitting revenue equally with participating cinemas. In 2021, Kino Lorber launched "Kino Cult,"

5670-411: The residents. Mayor Sammy Cantu remains distant, and Mondragon reluctantly agrees to host Platt in exchange for assistance in the fields. Mondragon's land is the only plot Devine hasn't acquired yet. Tensions rise, prompting the state governor to send Kyril Montana to intervene. Efforts to suppress Bloom's coverage fail when newspapers are scattered across town, leading to a heated community meeting. In

5760-471: The rights to the David Benedictus novel You're a Big Boy Now and merged it with a story idea of his own, resulting in his UCLA thesis project You're a Big Boy Now (1966), which earned Coppola his Master of Fine Arts Degree from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1967. The film also received a theatrical release via Warner Bros and earned critical acclaim. Geraldine Page

5850-407: The script for Patton starting in 1963 along with Edmund H. North . This earned him his first Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . However, it was not easy for Coppola to convince Franklin J. Schaffner that the opening scene would work. Coppola later revealed in an interview, I wrote the script of Patton . And the script was very controversial when I wrote it, because they thought it

5940-402: The script for The Peeper , a comedy short film about a voyeur who tries to spy on a sensual photo shoot in the studio next to his apartment. Coppola found an interested producer, who gave him $ 3,000 to shoot the film. He hired Playboy Bunny Marli Renfro to play the model and had his friend Karl Schanzer play the voyeur. With The Peeper finished, Coppola found that the cartoonish aspects of

6030-1222: The thriller The Conversation , which received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival . His next film, the war epic Apocalypse Now (1979), which had a notoriously lengthy and strenuous production , was widely acclaimed for vividly depicting the Vietnam War . It also won the Palme d'Or, making Coppola one of only ten filmmakers to have won the award twice. Coppola later directed notable films such as The Outsiders and Rumble Fish (both 1983), The Cotton Club (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), The Godfather Part III (1990), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and The Rainmaker (1997). Coppola has acted as producer on such diverse films as American Graffiti (1973), The Black Stallion (1979), The Escape Artist (1982), Hammett (1982), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) and The Secret Garden (1993). Many of Coppola's relatives and children have become popular actors and filmmakers: his sister Talia Shire

6120-695: Was Jeff Bridges who played the role of Preston Tucker. Budgeted at $ 24 million, the film received positive reviews and earned three nominations at the 62nd Academy Awards , but grossed a disappointing $ 19.65 million at the box office. It garnered two awards: Martin Landau won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and Dean Tavoularis took BAFTA's honors for Best Production Design . In 1989, Coppola teamed up with fellow Oscar -winning directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen for an anthology film called New York Stories . Coppola directed

6210-469: Was Coppola's first box-office success since The Outsiders and the film ranked number 17 on Entertainment Weekly ' s list of "50 Best High School Movies". The following year, Coppola re-teamed with James Caan for Gardens of Stone , but the film was overshadowed by the death of Coppola's eldest son Gian-Carlo during the film's production. The movie was not a critical success and underperformed commercially, earning only $ 5.6 million against

6300-470: Was [actually] made." Coppola shot The Godfather Part II in parallel to The Conversation . It was the last major American motion picture to be filmed in Technicolor . George Lucas commented on the film after its five-hour-long preview, telling Coppola, "You have two films. Take one away, it doesn't work," referring to the movie's portrayal of two parallel storylines, one of a young Vito Corleone and

6390-536: Was a cinematic milestone. The near three hour-long epic, a film treatment of Mario Puzo 's New York Times-bestselling novel The Godfather , chronicling the saga of the Corleone family , received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and got Coppola the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay , which he shared with Mario Puzo, as well as Golden Globe Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay . However, Coppola faced several difficulties while filming. He

6480-494: Was a mediocre student, his interest in technology and engineering earned him the childhood nickname "Science". He trained initially for a career in music and became proficient in the tuba , eventually earning a music scholarship to the New York Military Academy . In all, Coppola attended 23 schools before he eventually graduated from Great Neck North High School . He entered Hofstra College in 1955 as

6570-450: Was an extremely nightmarish experience. I had two little kids, and the third one was born during that. We lived in a little apartment, and I was basically frightened that they didn't like it. They had as much as said that, so when it was all over I wasn't at all confident that it was going to be successful, and that I'd ever get another job. After it was released, the film received widespread praise. It went on to win multiple awards, including

6660-467: Was based upon a famous Robert Frost poem and performed for the movie by Stevie Wonder . That same year, he directed Rumble Fish , based on the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Shot in black-and-white as an homage to German expressionist films , Rumble Fish centers on the relationship between a revered former gang leader ( Mickey Rourke ) and his younger brother, Rusty James ( Matt Dillon ). The film bombed at

6750-509: Was elected president of the university's drama group The Green Wig, and its musical comedy club, the Kaleidoscopians. He merged the two groups into The Spectrum Players, and under his leadership, the group staged a new production each week. Coppola also founded the cinema workshop at Hofstra and contributed prolifically to the campus literary magazine. He won three D. H. Lawrence Awards for theatrical production and direction and received

6840-460: Was forgotten. And I remember very vividly this long, kind of being raked over the coals for this opening scene. When the title role was offered to George C. Scott, he remembered having read Coppola's screenplay earlier. He stated flatly that he would accept the part only if they used Coppola's script. "Scott is the one who resurrected my version," said Coppola. The movie opens with Scott's rendering of Patton's famous military "Pep Talk" to members of

6930-481: Was founded as Kino International in 1976 by Bill Pence, then vice president of Janus Films , and based in Colorado . It began by importing and releasing international films that may have not otherwise reached the market in the United States. The first films distributed by Kino were in association with Janus Films. In 1977, Kino International was purchased by Donald Krim who at the time worked for United Artists as

7020-542: Was influenced to become a writer by his brother August. Coppola also credits the work of Elia Kazan for influencing him as a writer and director. Coppola's classmates at Hofstra included James Caan , Lainie Kazan , and radio artist Joe Frank . He later cast Lainie Kazan in One from the Heart and Caan in The Rain People , The Godfather , and Gardens of Stone . While pursuing his bachelor's degree, Coppola

7110-445: Was intended to follow the book more closely than previous film adaptations. Coppola cast Gary Oldman as the titular role, with Keanu Reeves , Winona Ryder , and Anthony Hopkins in supporting roles. The movie became a box-office hit, grossing $ 82,522,790 domestically, making it the 15th highest-grossing film of the year. It fared even better out of the country, grossing $ 133,339,902 for a total worldwide gross of $ 215,862,692 against

7200-452: Was moved up to second when the list was published again in 2007. Director Stanley Kubrick believed that The Godfather was possibly the greatest movie ever made and certainly the best-cast. Coppola's next film, The Conversation , further cemented his position as one of the most talented auteurs of Hollywood. The movie was partly influenced by Michelangelo Antonioni 's Blowup (1966) and generated much interest when news leaked that

7290-559: Was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and received six Oscars, including three for Coppola: Best Picture , Best Adapted Screenplay , and Best Director . The Godfather Part II is ranked as the No. 1 greatest movie of all time in TV Guide 's "50 Best Movies of All Time" and is ranked at No. 7 on Entertainment Weekly 's list of the "100 Greatest Movies of All Time". The film is also featured on movie critic Leonard Maltin 's list of

7380-514: Was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for her performance. Following the success of You're a Big Boy Now , Coppola was offered to work on a movie version of the Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow , starring Petula Clark in her first American film and veteran Fred Astaire . Producer Jack L. Warner was not impressed by Coppola's shaggy-haired, bearded, " hippie " appearance and generally left him to his own devices. Coppola took

7470-429: Was not Paramount 's first choice to direct the movie; Italian director Sergio Leone was initially offered the job but declined in order to direct his own gangster opus, Once Upon a Time in America . Robert Evans wanted the picture to be directed by an Italian American to make the film "ethnic to the core". Evans' chief assistant Peter Bart suggested Coppola, as a director of Italian ancestry who would work for

7560-429: Was on the set of Dementia 13 that Coppola met the woman he would marry, Eleanor Jessie Neil . In 1965, Coppola won the annual Samuel Goldwyn Award for best screenplay ( Pilma, Pilma ) written by a UCLA student. The honor secured him a job as a scriptwriter with Seven Arts . During this time, Coppola also co-wrote the scripts for This Property Is Condemned (1966) and Is Paris Burning? (1966). Coppola bought

7650-447: Was originally known as Kino International until it was acquired by and merged into Lorber HT Digital in 2009. It specializes in art house films, such as documentary films , classic and rarely seen films from earlier periods in the history of cinema, and world cinema . In addition to theatrical distribution, Kino Lorber releases films in the home entertainment market and has its own streaming services for its digital library. Kino Lorber

7740-450: Was overwhelmingly praised by critics when it finally released in 1979 and was selected for the 1979 Cannes Film Festival , winning the Palme d'Or along with The Tin Drum , directed by Volker Schlöndorff . When the film screened at Cannes, Coppola quipped, "My film is not about Vietnam, it is Vietnam." Apocalypse Now 's reputation has grown in time and it is now regarded by many as

7830-415: Was present through the production, Fax Bahr, and George Hickenlooper , chronicles the difficulties the crew went through making Apocalypse Now and features behind-the-scenes footage filmed by Eleanor. After filming Apocalypse Now , Coppola famously stated, "We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little, we went insane." The film

7920-584: Was released as The Bellboy and the Playgirls . That same year producer/director Roger Corman hired Coppola as an assistant. Corman first tasked Coppola with dubbing and re-editing the Soviet science fiction film Nebo zovyot , which Coppola turned into the sex-and-violence monster movie Battle Beyond the Sun , which was released in 1962. Impressed by Coppola's perseverance and dedication, Corman hired him as

8010-447: Was so stylized. It was supposed to be like, sort of, you know, The Longest Day . And my script of Patton was—I was sort of interested in the reincarnation. And I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I wasn't fired, but I was fired, meaning that when the script was done, they said, "Okay, thank you very much," and they went and hired another writer and that script

8100-446: Was told by the then-president of Paramount that "Marlon Brando will never appear in this motion picture." After pleading with the executives, Coppola was allowed to cast Brando only if he appeared in the film for much less money than his previous films, would perform a screen test, and put up a bond saying that he would not cause a delay in the production (as he had done on previous film sets). Coppola chose Brando over Ernest Borgnine on

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