Binding: Hardcover
Description: Sam Wasson's supremely entertaining book tracks the ups and downs ins and outs of a remarkable career . A marvel of unshowy reportage. New York Times The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue 5 A. M. and The Big Goodbye returns with the definitive account of Academy Award winning director Francis Ford Coppola's decades - long dream to reinvent American filmmaking if not the entire world through his production company American Zoetrope. Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great American dreamers and his most magnificent dream is American Zoetrope the production company he founded in San Francisco years before his gargantuan success when he was only thirty. Through Zoetrope's experimental communal utopia Coppola attempted to reimagine the entire pursuit of moviemaking. Now more than fifty years later despite myriad setbacks the visionary filmmaker's dream persists most notably in the production of his decades - in - the - making film and the culmination of his utopian ideals Megalopolis. As Wasson makes clear the story of Zoetrope is also the story of Coppola's wife Eleanor Coppola and their children and of personal lives inseparable from artistic passion. It is a story that charts the divergent paths of Coppola and his cofounder and onetime apprentice George Lucas and of their very different visions of art and commerce. And it is a story inextricably bound up in the making of one of the greatest quixotic masterpieces ever attempted Apocalypse Now and in what Coppola found in the jungles of the Philippines when he walked the razor's edge. That story already the stuff of legend has never fully been told until this extraordinary book.
Title: The Path To Paradise A Francis Ford Coppola Story
Author(s): Wasson Sam
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063037847
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/28/2023