Autorentext
Peter Cowie is founding editor of the annual International Film Guide and author of The Cinema of Orson Welles (available from Da Capo Press) and Ingmar Bergman: A Critical Biography. He is now senior international advisor to the publication and lives in London.

Klappentext

No director expresses the drive and invention of the new American cinema as brilliantly as Francis Ford Coppola. After three years of research--including exhaustive interviews with Coppola, his friends and his colleagues, Cowie provides a definitive view of the most visionary and charismatic filmmaker of Coppola's generation. Two 8-page photograph inserts.

Zusammenfassung
By 1982 Francis Ford Coppola had won five Academy Awards; at the same time he was over $20 million in debt following the disastrous failure of One from the Heart. This astute biography critically exam

Inhalt

• Introduction * The Italian Connection * The Studio Grind * Independence and the Dream of Zoetrope * The Godfather * Picking Up The Conversation * Back to Corleone * Lost in the Jungle * Blows to the Heart * Back to Back in Tulsa * Playing The Cotton Club * From Rip van Winkle to Peggy Sue * Tragedy and Revival * TuckerThe Dream Triumphant * Back to the Future * Filmography