Francis Ford Coppola News

I knew some major movie geeks back in college. Discussions after class often compared Steven Spielberg to Francis Ford Coppola, and there was this guy who memorized every line of dialogue from Ghostbusters .

Francis Ford Coppola may have been catapulted to stardom thanks to the 1972 mega-hit The Godfather - which yesterday won the first round of our Best Best Picture bracket - but it would be his next three films that would elevate the filmmaker to the upper echelon of cinematic visionaries.

Turkmenistan may already have a reputation for the surreal, but as presidential elections approach, one of the last remaining government critics is being harassed by someone with an occultist fantasy and/or a fondness for Francis Ford Coppola .

Hard to believe that Francis Ford Coppola could make a bad film, but from all accounts he has done in the form of Twixt.

In this May 10, 1996 file photo, U.S. film director Francis Ford Coppola who heads the jury of the 49th International Cannes Film Festival poses with jury member Eiko Ishioka in Cannes, Southern France.

Army Capt. Alex Moen is stationed in Fort Washington, Ky., but on Tuesday night a Bushwick audience can hear his story performed live on stage - interspersed with scenes from Francis Ford Coppola's epic war film "Apocalypse Now." The play, "Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din," debuting at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Bushwick Starr theater at 207 Starr ... (more)

Chilling, yet beautiful. How a man's love for his family draws him into a life of unspeakable violence is the subject of "The Godfather," directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

George Lucas is ready to retire, again. Though he previously threatened retirement before launching into the Star Wars prequels, the director's 20-year passion project Red Tails is finally hitting theaters this month, and with that Lucas says he's basically done: That "stuff" would be blockbusters, and Lucas seems to be taking a page out of Francis ... (more)

The most ambitious film-maker of the 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola had a string of critical and box-office successes before his triumph with Apocalypse Now .

Film buffs, listen up. FIFTY24SF is working with the art department of Coppola's newest horror film, Twixt , to recreate a set inside the gallery.

I'm reading Michael Rubin's Droidmaker , a history of Lucasfilm's work with computer graphics and computer-assisted editing, and really, a big chunk of Bay Area history I didn't know much about.