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.

American Zoetrope is now owned entirely by Coppola's son and daughter, directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola.

Coppola's family was undergoing a stressful time during the production and he dedicated the film to Gio, his eldest son, who died before filming began.

Director Francis Ford Coppola's son Roman Coppola played Sonny as a boy in the 1920s scene of that film.

Sheen has been cast to star alongside Jason Schwartzman in Roman Coppola's upcoming film A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charlie Swan III.

In 2001 he appeared in Roman Coppola's directorial debut CQ, an homage to the Italian spy / sci-fi B-movies in which Law often starred during the 1960s.

He is known for his roles as Westley in the cult classic The Princess Bride, Arthur Holmwood in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and for his role as Dr. Lawrence Gordon in Saw.

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.

Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote a particularly scathing review, stating that " It's impossible to know what Francis Coppola's Life Without Zoe is.

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 scene is perhaps the best example of Eisenstein's theory on montage, and many films pay homage to the scene, including Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, Tibor Takacs ' Deathline, Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box, George Lucas's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Chandrashekhar Narvekar's Hindi film Tezaab, Shukō Murase's anime Ergo Proxy and Peter Sellers ' The Magic Christian.

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.

His most famous film role to date is probably that of Chief Phillips in Francis Ford Coppola's award-winning Apocalypse Now.

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

" that " side from Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather series, with its deft flashbacks and gritty social realism, ... is not ... a single film produced over the past 35 years that is arguably of equal philosophical weight or virtuosity of execution to Bergman's

Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula suggests that Renfield ( portrayed by Tom Waits ) was Harker's predecessor as Count Dracula's agent in London ; it is implied that this is the reason for his present madness.

He also had a small part in Coppola's 1987 Gardens of Stone playing the part of Don Brubaker as a hippie war protester at a garden party during the Vietnam War who gets into an argument with James Caan's character and is beaten up.

Stephen Dorff ( born July 29, 1973 ) is an American actor, known for portraying Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat, Johnny Marco in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, and for his roles in Blade, Cecil B. DeMented, and Space Truckers.

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.

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.

He made several movies without Warhol and Morrissey, and is known for his portrayal of 1920s gangster Lucky Luciano in Francis Coppola's The Cotton Club.

It is possible that the seemingly random year comes from Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 classic Apocalypse Now.

It is based on Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Vito Andolini Corleone is a fictional character and the main character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather, as well as Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy, where he was portrayed by Marlon Brando in The Godfather and by Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II.

Mary's aunt Connie Corleone is played by Talia Shire — Sofia Coppola's real-life aunt.

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.

He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ).

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 ".

More recently he composed for Francis Ford Coppola's movie Youth Without Youth, and original music for Coppola's films Tetro and Twixt.

Impressed by Coppola's perseverance and dedication, Corman hired him as dialogue director on Tower of London ( 1962 ), sound man for The Young Racers ( 1963 ) and associate producer of The Terror ( 1963 ).

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.

For Lost in Translation it was Maria from West Side Story, with director Sofia Coppola's name replacing the title.

Brown's flamboyant style made him so well known as the consummate politician that when an actor playing a party politician in 1990's The Godfather Part III did not understand director Francis Ford Coppola's instruction to model his character after Brown, Coppola fired the actor and hired Brown himself to play the role.

The DVD version includes a commentary track from both Eleanor and Francis Coppola ( although each was recorded separately ) and a bonus documentary entitled Coda, about Coppola's film Youth Without Youth.

In 1979 Miller began her acting career, which includes an appearance in Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides and a 2001 Gemini Award for " Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series " for her work as Elisha Cuthbert's mother in Lucky Girl.

The 5-floor retail Galleria, with 73, 000 square meters ( 786, 000 sq ft ) of stores, restaurants and shops includes the first Terence Conran restaurants in Japan, a wine bar ( Coppola's Vinoteca ) showcasing the wines of Francis Ford Coppola, and an outlet of high-end American food retailer Dean & DeLuca.

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

Cazale made his feature film debut, alongside his old friend Al Pacino, playing the role of Fredo Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.

She would later feature more heavily in Coppola's Redux cut.

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.

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

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 bombed at the box office, earning a meagre $ 2. 5 million against a budget of $ 10 million, and once again aggravated Coppola's financial troubles.

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

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.

In Sofia Coppola's independent film The Virgin Suicides ( 1999 ), Dunst played the role of troubled adolescent Lux Lisbon.

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

1992 also saw Waits featuring in Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula, as the possessed lunatic Renfield.

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

Kilmer turned down a role in Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film, The Outsiders, as he had prior theatre commitments.

In 1983, Stewart Copeland composed the musical score for Francis Ford Coppola's film Rumble Fish.