The definitive account of the legendary Francis Ford Coppola''s decades-long dream to reinvent American film-making, if not the entire world. ''Supremely entertaining.'' New York Times ''Mouth-watering . . . Sizzingly vivid and compulsive.'' Daily Telegraph Acclaimed writer Sam Wasson weaves together an extraordinary portrait of Coppola, having conducted hundreds of interviews with the director and those who have worked closely with him. A man who is charming, brilliant, but also plagued by restlessness, recklessness and a desire to operate perpetually at the extremes. It is a story inextricably bound up in the making of one of the greatest quixotic masterpieces ever attempted, Apocalypse Now . That story, already the stuff of legend, has never been fully told until this extraordinary book..

Vorwort
A visionary who was ahead of his time, the book presents Francis Ford Coppola's great adventure in film-making.

Autorentext
Sam Wasson studied film at Wesleyan University and at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is the author of the bestseller Fifth Avenue, 5A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's and the Dawn of the Modern Woman. He is also the author of the definitive biography of dancer-choreographer-filmmaker Bob Fosse. He currently teaches film at Emerson College in Los Angeles.

Klappentext

The definitive account of the legendary Francis Ford Coppola's decades-long dream to reinvent American film-making, if not the entire world. 'Supremely entertaining.' New York Times'Mouth-watering .