Coppola A Biography (Paperback)

From the Publisher: 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.The story of how the maker of the critically and financially successful films The Godfather, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now could also go over $20 million into debt with the failure of One from the Heart. Research and interviews with Coppola look at the director's rise to prominence, the turmoil in his personal life, his intermittent failures, and resurgent successes. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.