However, after he chanced to see Sergei Eisenstein ’ s October, which impressed him profoundly, particularly the quality of editing in the movie, Coppola decided that he would not go into theater but would opt for cinema.

However, it was not easy for Coppola to convince Franklin J. Schaffner that the opening scene would work.

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

After pleading with the executives, Coppola was allowed to cast Brando only if he appeared in the film for much less salary than his previous films, perform a screen-test, and put up a bond saying that he would not cause a delay in the production ( as he had done on previous film sets ).

Coppola would later recollect:

According to Coppola, the studio's objection stemmed from the belief that audiences would be reluctant to see a film with such a title, as the audience would supposedly believe that, having already seen The Godfather, there was little reason to see an addition to the original story.

When Williams was offered the screenplay for Jack he said he would only agree to do it if Coppola agreed to sign on as director.

Robert Evans took the blame for hiring Coppola while the director responded that if he had not been hired, the film would have never been made.

This would not be the only documentation of the making of Francis Ford Coppola ’ s Apocalypse Now as she decided to film a documentary based on the same movie.

With notes consisting of thirty year time span, Eleanor Coppola would go on to write the book Notes on a Life.

The film would go on to win the Palme d ' Or, making it his second win of the prestigious award in three years and putting him in an elite club of only seven with the likes of Francis Ford Coppola.

Although Coppola enjoyed his working relationship with Lucas, he commented in a July 1988 The New York Times interview with Robert Lindsey that " I think it's a good movie-it's eccentric, a little wacky, like the Tucker car-but it's not the movie I would have made at the height of my power.

Despite helming his " labor of love ," Coppola was insistent that Tucker: The Man and His Dream would be his last Hollywood project.

The following year she would be nominated again for the film Tetro by Francis Ford Coppola.

However, on The Godfather Part IIIs DVD commentary, Coppola explains that both he and Puzo had envisioned a fourth part to the saga, one storyline of which would deal with Vincent's reign as head of the Corleone family.

* The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, debuted in five cinemas in New York City, and would set a record ( which stood until 1975 ) for the highest grossing film in history, taking in $ 87, 500, 000 in its first release.

Coppola promised it would be the cheapest film Corman was ever involved in.

While a graduate student, one of his teachers was Dorothy Arzner, whose encouragement Coppola later acknowledged as pivotal to his film career.

Coppola later revealed in an interview:

Brownlow's restoration was later distributed in America re-edited and shortened by Francis Ford Coppola with a live orchestral score composed by his father Carmine Coppola.

Wright's later film appearances included a major role in Somewhere in Time ( 1980 ), the role of the grandmother in The Good Mother ( 1988 ) with Diane Keaton, and the role of Miss Birdie in John Grisham's The Rainmaker ( 1997 ), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Three years later, Sofia Coppola credited In the Mood for Love as her largest inspiration on her Oscar-nominated film Lost in Translation, which itself ended with secrets being shared, and made important use of another song by Bryan Ferry.

One of these featured Francis Ford Coppola ( an executive producer of the film ), which later inspired his daughter Sofia Coppola in her writing of Lost in Translation, a film which focuses on an American actor filming a Suntory commercial in Tokyo.

In addition to Penn, Reinhold, Cates and Leigh, this movie marks early appearances by several actors who later became stars, including Nicolas Cage, then billing himself as Nicolas Coppola, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz, and Anthony Edwards.

Years later, Eleanor gave birth to Roman and Sofia Coppola.

The book consists of short passages from each day beginning with the death of her oldest son Gian-Carlo Coppola at the age of 22 and the birth of her granddaughter Gia just months later.

He later won another Obie for the leading role in Horovitz's Line, where he was noticed by Godfather casting director Fred Roos, who then suggested him to director Francis Ford Coppola.

Francis Ford Coppola later developed the property in the 1990s.

Later in the film, he breaks down in tears while confessing having ordered Fredo's death to Cardinal Lamberto ( Raf Vallone ), who later becomes Pope John Paul I. Michael's daughter, Mary ( Sofia Coppola ), however, appears to be unsure whether or not Michael was behind Fredo's death ; she asks her cousin and love interest, Vincent Mancini-Corleone ( Andy García ), if it is true, but Vincent says it is " just a story " and changes the subject.

) Jimmy Fink, Tony Pigg and Marc Coppola eventually moved to Infinity Broadcasting's rock K-Rock ( WXRK ) when it debuted a couple of years later.

Their track " Too Young " was in the soundtrack for the movie Lost in Translation ( which was directed by Thomas's later wife, Sofia Coppola ), and was also played in the movie Shallow Hal.

Although Coppola insisted that this was purely coincidental, for not only was the script for The Conversation completed in the mid-1960s ( before the election of Richard Nixon ) but the spying equipment used in the film was discovered through research and the use of technical advisers and not, as many believed, by revelatory newspaper stories about the Watergate break-in.

In the director's commentary on the DVD edition of the film ( released in 2002 ), Coppola states that this film was the first major motion picture to use " Part II " in its title.

Coppola discusses his decision to make this the first major motion picture to use " Part II " in its title in the director's commentary on the DVD edition of the film released in 2002.

Composer Carmine Coppola made heavy use of the cimbalom in his soundtrack for The Black Stallion to accentuate the Arabian heritage of the majestic horse.

The cast finally quits in the final sketch when Anthony Michael Hall is injured in a war-sketch after Coppola decides to use real bullets to increase the sketch's sense of realism.

Carmine Coppola wrote and edited the musical score, including the title song " Stay Gold ", which was based upon a famous Robert Frost poem and performed for the movie by Stevie Wonder.

* " Little Boy Blue " is also the name of a song written by Tom Waits and sung by Nastassja Kinski in the film One from the Heart directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1982.

Coppola also used the song " Look " from his Sexuality album in her 2010 film Somewhere

The music video for the song was their first that was not directed by Roman Coppola.

Following the success of The Godfather, The Conversation and The Godfather Part II, Coppola began filming Apocalypse Now, an adaptation of Conrad ’ s Heart of Darkness set in Cambodia during the Vietnam War ( Coppola himself briefly appears as a TV news director ).

The 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, directed by Eleanor Coppola ( Francis's wife ), Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper, chronicles the difficulties the crew went through making Apocalypse Now, and features behind-the-scenes footage filmed by Eleanor.

After filming Apocalypse Now, Coppola famously stated: " We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.

In 2001, Coppola re-released Apocalypse Now as Apocalypse Now Redux, restoring several sequences lost from the original 1979 cut of the film, thereby expanding its length to 200 minutes.

It was the first box-office success for Coppola since Apocalypse Now.

A production documentary of the film was titled, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, which exposed some of the major difficulties director Coppola faced in seeing the movie through to completion.

He finished out the decade of the 1970s with his controversial performance as Colonel Walter Kurtz in another Coppola film, Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), a box office hit for which he was highly paid and that helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s.

* Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) — winner of two Academy Awards, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Sheen's performance ultimately led to Francis Ford Coppola choosing him for a starring role in 1979's Apocalypse Now, a film that gained him wide recognition.

Peggy Sue Got Married opened with $ 6, 942, 408 and ended up grossing $ 41, 382, 841 in the U. S. It was the first box-office success for Coppola since Apocalypse Now.

* Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) – Francis Coppola

** Apocalypse Now – Carmine Coppola ; Francis Ford Coppola

The title of Sound Designer was first granted to Walter Murch by Francis Ford Coppola in recognition for Murch's extraordinary contributions to the film Apocalypse Now.

Francis Ford Coppola ’ s Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) went so far as to not feature the title at all, except briefly as graffiti in Colonel Kurtz ’ ( Brando ) compound.

The studio has produced not only the films of Coppola ( including Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Tetro ), but also George Lucas's pre-Star Wars films ( THX 1138 and American Graffiti ), as well as many others by such cutting-edge directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders and Godfrey Reggio.

* Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) ( directed by Francis Ford Coppola )

* Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse ( 1991 ) ( directed by Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper )

* Apocalypse Now Redux ( 2001 ) ( directed by Francis Ford Coppola )

In 1976, she began documenting the making of Coppola ’ s war film Apocalypse Now.