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Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American filmmaker. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most celebrated and influential film directors. He epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, which included George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and William Friedkin, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary filmmaking. He co-authored the script for Patton, winning the Academy Award in 1970. His directorial fame escalated with the release of The Godfather in 1972. The film revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, garnering universal laurels from critics and public alike. It went on to win three Academy Awards, including his second, which he won for Best Adapted Screenplay, and it was instrumental in cementing his position as one of the prominent American film directors. Coppola followed it with an equally successful sequel The Godfather Part II, which became the first ever sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film received yet higher praises than its predecessor, and gave him three Academy Awards—for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture. In the same year was released The Conversation, which he directed, produced and wrote. The film went on to win the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. His next directorial venture was Apocalypse Now in 1979, and it was as notorious for its lengthy and troubled production as it was critically acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War. It won his second Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Although some of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and early 1990s were critically lauded, Coppola's later work has not met the same level of critical and commercial success as his '70s films.
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The Godfather
Directed
The Godfather Part II
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The Conversation
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Marie Antoinette
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Lost in Translation
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The Virgin Suicides
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Apocalypse Now
Directed
The Godfather Part III
Directed
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Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Girlhood Reclaimed
From institutionalised rebellion to the raucous freedom of the last day of school, a chain of films that lets young women be messy, angry, and gloriously themse...
8 films
The Threshold of Nowhere
From a furniture store's hidden door to the endless corridors of the mind, this chain maps the liminal spaces where dread and wonder collide.
8 films
The Perfect Needledrop: Ten Moments That Own the Screen
From sudden silences to euphoric choruses, these are the film moments where a song doesn't just score the scene, it becomes the scene.
10 films
The Art of Listening
From the whisper of a surveillance tape to the roar of a wartime beach, these eight films prove that sound is not just heard, it is felt. A chain of masterpiece...
7 films
Growing Pains: Sequels That Leap Through Time
From a Parisian afternoon to a boxing ring, these sequels skip years ahead and find their characters changed, challenged, and achingly familiar. A journey throu...
6 films
When the Sequel Outshines the Original
From gritty crime epics to mind-bending sci-fi, these sequels didn't just continue stories, they redefined them. Here's a chain of films that prove the second (...
8 films
20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own
There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...
20 films
Love in the Time of Espionage
From Berlin to Buenos Aires, a journey through films where romance and espionage entwine, revealing the human cost of secrets.
7 films
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Twixt
2011
Tetro
2009
Youth Without Youth
2007
The Rainmaker
1997
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
The Godfather Part III
1990
New York Stories
1989
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
Peggy Sue Got Married
1986
The Cotton Club
1984
Rumble Fish
1983
The Outsiders
1983
One from the Heart
1982
Apocalypse Now
1979
The Godfather Part II
1974
The Conversation
1974
The Godfather
1972
Dementia 13
1963
Battle Beyond the Sun
1959
Acted
Wrote
Twixt
2011
Tetro
2009
Youth Without Youth
2007
The Rainmaker
1997
The Godfather Part III
1990
New York Stories
1989
The Cotton Club
1984
The Cotton Club
1984
Rumble Fish
1983
One from the Heart
1982
Apocalypse Now
1979
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977
The Godfather Part II
1974
The Conversation
1974
The Godfather
1972
Dementia 13
1963
The Haunted Palace
1963
Produced
The Bling Ring
2013
On the Road
2012
Twixt
2011
Somewhere
2010
Tetro
2009
Youth Without Youth
2007
The Good Shepherd
2006
Marie Antoinette
2006
Lost in Translation
2003
Pumpkin
2002
Jeepers Creepers
2001
The Virgin Suicides
2000
Sleepy Hollow
1999
The Rainmaker
1997
The Odyssey
1997
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
Don Juan DeMarco
1994
The Secret Garden
1993
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
The Godfather Part III
1990
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
Powaqqatsi
1988
Peggy Sue Got Married
1986
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985
The Cotton Club
1984
Rumble Fish
1983
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
The Black Stallion Returns
1983
The Outsiders
1983
Apocalypse Now
1979
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977
The Godfather Part II
1974
The Conversation
1974
American Graffiti
1973
The Godfather
1972