Coppola's next film, The Conversation, further cemented his position as one of the most talented auteurs of Hollywood.

After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation ( 1974 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ); in the latter film he played a smarmy officer named " G.

Johnny Pop, the young-looking vampire who came to America with Coppola's film crew, finds his place in his new homeland, on his way to becoming the next Dracula.

The project eventually collapsed when Coppola's American Zoetrope experienced financial problems.

Producer Jack Warner was nonplussed by Coppola's shaggy-haired, bearded, " hippie " appearance and generally left him to his own devices.

Dealing with outdated material at a time when the popularity of film musicals was already on the downslide, Coppola's result was only semi-successful, but his work with Clark no doubt contributed to her Golden Globe Best Actress nomination.

Matt Dillon and several others also starred in Coppola's related film, Rumble Fish, which was also based on a S. E. Hinton novel and filmed at the same time as The Outsiders on-location in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The film was overshadowed by the death of Coppola's eldest son Gian-Carlo Coppola during the film's production.

Coppola's eldest son, Gian-Carlo, was in the early stages of a film production career when he was killed on May 26, 1986 in a speedboat accident.

Coppola's nephew, Nicolas Cage, starred in Coppola's film Peggy Sue Got Married and was featured in Rumble Fish and The Cotton Club.

Although Coppola's ambition was for him to establish a production unit to rival the Freed Unit at MGM, the film's failure put an end to this idea.

He followed this with leading roles in the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation ( 1974 ), which was nominated for several Oscars.

" The character of John, a career-driven photographer ( Giovanni Ribisi ) in Coppola's Lost In Translation ( 2003 ), was rumored to be based on Jonze, though Coppola has vehemently denied this.

For Coppola's film, Waits originally wanted to work with Bette Midler ; she was unavailable due to prior engagements, however.

The feature film was produced in a joint venture between Warner Brothers and Francis Ford Coppola's production company, American Zoetrope.

Her film debut was a small part in Francis Ford Coppola's 1982 film One from the Heart.

Eastwood was then offered the role of Benjamin L. Willard in Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now, but declined as he did not want to spend weeks on location in the Philippines.

The Directors Company subsequently produced only two more pictures, Coppola's The Conversation ( 1974 ), which was nominated for Best Picture in 1974 alongside The Godfather, Part II, and Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller, which had a lackluster critical reception.

Although not a blockbuster like Coppola's other projects at the time, it was still very profitable.

The Godfather DVD Collection was released on October 9, 2001 in a package that contained all three films — each with a commentary track by Coppola — and a bonus disc that featured a 73-minute documentary from 1991 entitled The Godfather Family: A Look Inside and other miscellany about the film: the additional scenes originally contained in The Godfather Saga ; Francis Coppola's Notebook ( a look inside a notebook the director kept with him at all times during the production of the film ); rehearsal footage ; a promotional featurette from 1971 ; and video segments on Gordon Willis's cinematography, Nino Rota's and Carmine Coppola's music, the director, the locations and Mario Puzo's screenplays.

Cast as Captain Willard in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Keitel was involved with the first week of principal photography in the Philippines.

Another early pioneer of the subgenre is director Francis Ford Coppola's controversial 1963 film Dementia 13, which was rushed into production following Psycho < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s success at the box office.

The idea of the ' reincarnated love ', first seen in universal's 1932 film, " The Mummy ", and utilized to great effect in Dark Shadows, was also seen in Curtis ' " Bram Stoker's Count Dracula " with Jack Palance, and was lifted wholesale from that for Coppola's version of " Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Another example is Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, which, like the original film, polarized the audience, with some fans considering the original version to be the definitive cut.

The most famous adaptation is Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 motion picture Apocalypse Now, which moves the story from the Congo to Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

The 1960s proved to be a fallow decade for Brando, and after 10 years in which he did not appear in a commercially successful movie, he won his second Academy Award for playing Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather ( 1972 ), a role critics consider among his greatest.

Fishburne later earned a supporting role in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, in which he played a 17-year-old sailor nicknamed ' Mr. Clean '.

John Sebastian composed the music for Francis Ford Coppola's second film, You're a Big Boy Now, and The Lovin ' Spoonful played the music for the soundtrack, which included yet another hit, " Darling Be Home Soon ".

* Lionsgate also now owns US DVD rights to Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now ( under license from Paramount Pictures, which owns US distribution rights on behalf of the film's rights holder, American Zoetrope, Coppola's company ).

Afterward, he was cast as the lead role in Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders, which earned him a Young Artist Award.

" Zoetrope " is also the name by which Coppola's quarterly fiction magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story, is often known.

( in which he also made a cameo, as himself during production of Being John Malkovich ) and Where the Wild Things Are, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, Marie-Antoinette and her short film Lick the Star, as well as Peter Care ’ s The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys.

Subsequently, he worked on George Lucas's THX 1138 and American Graffiti and Coppola's The Godfather before editing picture and mixing sound on Coppola's The Conversation, for which he received an Academy Award nomination in sound in 1974.

Murch also mixed the sound for Coppola's The Godfather Part II which was released in 1974, the same year as The Conversation.

The focus on high-concept premises, with greater concentration on tie-in merchandise ( such as toys ), spin-offs into other media ( such as soundtracks ), and the use of sequels ( which had been made more respectable by Coppola's The Godfather Part II ), all showed the studios how to make money in the new environment.

Films famous for their long cuts include Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather in which the entire first scene is a long take featuring Bonasera describing the assault of his daughter, and Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, which only cuts at the end of each reel, and does so surreptitiously so that it seems as if the whole film is one take.

The Godfather Book ( Faber, London, 1997 ) examined Coppola's trilogy of films, and after a visit to Monument Valley in Utah, he wrote an analysis of Ford's films which were shot there, John Ford and the American West ( Abrams, New York, 2004 ), examining the importance of the location and the influences of 19th Century American painting.

A brilliant director of feature films, Coppola turns out to be an incompetent TV director, resulting in a running gag in which each sketch is ruined in various ways by Coppola's bumbling.

After collaborating on the song, " Don't Box Me In " with Stewart Copeland from The Police for the soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish starring Mickey Rourke, Matt Dillon and Dennis Hopper, he released his first proper solo album, The Big Heat ( 1986 ), which included the top 5 European ( and UK ) hit " Camouflage ".

In 1986 Coppola released the comedy Peggy Sue Got Married starring Kathleen Turner, Coppola's nephew Nicolas Cage, and Jim Carrey.

* Marshall Crenshaw ( performed by The Marshall Crenshaw band in Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986, soundtrack released by Varèse Sarabande Records )

In 1989, the song " Back to School " was featured in the movie New York Stories, in Francis Ford Coppola's short " Life without Zoe ", and was released on the soundtrack.