Dementia 13 (Dementia 13, 1962-USA; R+B: Francis Ford Coppola, K: Charles Hannawalt, M: Ronald Stein, D: William Campbell * Luana Anders * Bart Patton * Mary Mitchell) 75/81m-Horror (11 Tage; 6309)

You're a Big Boy Now (Big Boy, jetzt wirst Du ein Mann!, 1966-USA; R+B: Francis Ford Coppola, K: Andrew Laszlo, M: Bob/Robert Prince, D: Elizabeth Hartman * Geraldine Page * Peter Kastner * Rip Torn * Michael Dunn * Tony Bill * Karen Black & Julie Harris) 96m-Tragikomödie (Roman von David Benedictus, 1963) (06-07; 6612)

Finian's Rainbow (Der goldene Regenbogen, 1967-USA; R: Francis Ford Coppola, B: E.Y. Harburg, Fred Saidy, K: Philip H. Lathrop, MS: Ray Heindorf, D: Fred Astaire * Petula Clark) 145m-Musical (6810)

The Rain People (Liebe niemals einen Fremden, 1967/68-USA; R+B: Francis Ford Coppola, K: Wilmer C./Bill Butler, M: Ronald Stein, D: Shirley Knight ° James Caan & Robert Duvall) 102m-Liebesdrama (6908)

The Godfather (Der Pate, 1971-USA) (Roman von Mario Puzo) (7203)

The Conversation (Der Dialog, 1972/73-USA) (7404)

The Godfather Part II (Der Pate II, 1973/74-USA) (Roman von Mario Puzo) (7412)

Apocalypse Now (Apocalypse Now * Apocalypse Now Redux, 1976/77-USA) (7908)

One from the Heart (Einer mit Herz, 1981-USA; R: Francis Ford Coppola, B: Armyan Bernstein, Francis [Ford] Coppola, K: Vittorio Storaro, Ronald V./Ron Garcia, M: Tom Waits, D: Frederic Forrest * Teri Garr * Raul Julia * Nastassja Kinski * Lainie Kazan & Harry Dean Stanton) 107m-Romanze (02-04; 8202)

The Outsiders (Die Outsider, 1982-USA) (Roman von S.E. Hinton) (8303)

Rumble Fish (Rumble Fish, 1982-USA) (Roman von S.E. Hinton) (8310)

The Cotton Club (Cotton Club, 1983-USA) (08-?; 8412)

Peggy Sue Got Married (Peggy Sue hat geheiratet, 1985-USA) (8610)

Gardens of Stone (Der steinerne Garten, 1986-USA; R: Francis Ford Coppola, B: Ronald Bass, K: Jordan Cronenweth, M: Carmine Coppola, D: James Caan * Anjelica Huston * James Earl Jones) 111m-Militärdrama (Roman von Nicholas Proffitt, 1983) (05-08; 8705)

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (Tucker, 1987-USA; R: Francis Ford Coppola, B: Arnold Schulman, David Seidler, K: Vittorio Storaro, M: Joe Jackson, D: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest, Mako, Dean Stockwell) 111m-Biografie (04-07; 8808)

New York Stories (New Yorker Geschichten, 1988-USA > 2-Life without Zoe [33m] * R: Francis Ford Coppola, B: Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, K: Vittorio Storaro, M: Carmine Coppola, D: Heather McComb, Talia Shire, Giancarlo Giannini) 124m-Episodenfilm (04-10; 8903)

The Godfather Part III (Der Pate III, 1989/90-USA) (11-05; 9012)

(Bram Stoker's) Dracula (1991/92-USA) (Roman von Bram Stoker) (9211)

Jack (Jack, 1995-USA; R: Francis Ford Coppola, B: James DeMonaco, Gary Nadeau, K: John Toll, M: Michael Kamen, D: Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Brian Kerwin & Fran Drescher & Bill Cosby) 113m-Tragikomödie (09-12; 9608)

[John Grisham's] The Rainmaker (Der Regenmacher, 1996/97-USA; R: Francis Ford Coppola, B: Francis Ford Coppola; Michael Herr, K: John Toll, M: Elmer Bernstein, D: Matt Damon ° Danny DeVito ° Claire Danes) 135m-Justizdrama (Roman von John Grisham, 1995) (10-02; 9711)

Youth Without Youth / Jugend ohne Jugend / Un'altra giovinezza / L'homme sans âge (2005/06-USA/D/I/F/RO; R+B: Francis Ford Coppola, K: Mihai Malaimare, Jr., M: Osvaldo Golijov, D: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, André Hennicke) 125m-Fantasy (Novelle Tinerețe fără tinerețe von Mircea Eliade, 1976) (10-03; 0710)

Tetro (2008-RA/E/I; d+B: Francis Ford Coppola, K: Mihai Malaimare, Jr., M: Osvaldo Golijov, D: Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdu, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Carmen Maura) 125m-Drama (03-05 & 09; 0906)

Twixt (Twixt - Virginias Geheimnis, 2010-USA; R+B: Francis Ford Coppola, K: Mihai Malaimare, Jr., M: Dan Deacon, Osvaldo Golijov, D: Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Ben Chaplin, Elle Fanning & Joanne Whalley) 89m-Gruselfilm (11-12; 1204-F)

Megalopolis (Megalopolis, 2022/23-USA; R+B: Francis Ford Coppola, K: Mihai Mălaimare, Jr., M: Osvaldo Golijov, D: Adam Driver: Cesar Catilina, Giancarlo Esposito: Franklyn Cicero, Nathalie Emmanuel: Julia Cicero, Aubrey Plaza: Wow Platinum, Shia LaBeouf: Clodio Pulcher, Jon Voight: Hamilton Crassus III, Laurence Fishburne: Fundi Romaine, Kathryn Hunter: Teresa Cicero & Dustin Hoffman: Nush Berman) 139m-Sci-Fi-Drama (11-03; 2409)

Tonight for Sure [Das gibt es nur im wilden Westen, 1961-USA; 69m-Westernkomödie > deutsche Kinoversion (1968): 48m] - Zusammenschnitt aus dem von FFC inszenierten Kurzfilm The Peeper (12m) und dem in Schwarz-Weiß-Western The Wide Open Spaces ["Tonight for Sure was a job to combine the short film The Peeper into a film the distributors had but couldn't release (that I had nothing to do with) called The Wide Open Spaces. I used footage from both, and this became Tonight for Sure. (...) In fact I was the editor and had made the original short about the man eavesdropping on the photo session." Francis Ford Coppola - zitiert nach The Gods of Filmmaking - www.ambidextrouspics.com]

Academy Award / Oscar (bestes Drehbuch) für Patton (1971) ex aequo mit Edmund H. North

Academy Award / Oscar (bestes Drehbuch) für The Godfather (1973) ex aequo mit Mario Puzo

Golden Globe (beste Regie) für The Godfather (1973)

Golden Globe (bestes Drehbuch) für The Godfather (1973) ex aequo mit Mario Puzo

National Board of Review Award (beste Regie) für The Conversation (1974)

Academy Award / Oscar (beste Regie) für The Godfather Part II (1975)

Academy Award / Oscar (bestes Drehbuch) für The Godfather Part II (1975) ex aequo mit Mario Puzo

Golden Globe (beste Regie) für Apocalypse Now (1980)

Golden Globe (beste Musik) für Apocalypse Now (1980) ex aequo mit Carmine Coppola

BAFTA Award (beste Regie) für Apocalypse Now (1980)

David /di Donatello/ (bester ausländischer Regisseur) für Apocalypse Now (1980)

Goldener Löwe (für sein Lebenswerk) [Filmfestspiele Venedig 1992]

Billy Wilder Award [National Board of Review Awards 1997]

Spezialpreis [Filmfestival San Sebastián 2002]

Jon Lewis: Whom God Wishes to Destroy...: Francis Coppola and the new Hollywood. Durham/ London: Duke University Press, 1995

Esteve Riambau: Francis Ford Coppola. Madrid: Catedra, 1997

Iannis Katsahnias: Francis Ford Coppola. Paris: Ed. de l'étoile/Cahiers du cinéma, 1997

Ronald Bergan: Francis Ford Coppola - Close Up: The Making of His Movies. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1998

Michael Schumacher: Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life. New York: Crown Publishers, 1999

Francis Ford Coppola is one of the seminal filmmakers of the generation that changed the way movies are made. Five of the films he's worked on are listed among the American Film Institute's top 100 films ever made. He is a man who's spent his life seeking to realize his own artistic vision even as he acknowledges the force that truly drives Hollywood - box office receipts. Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life is the first complete picture of the flawed cinematic genius who directed the Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, and other distinctive films - some wildly successful, some disastrous. Coppola is on every film aficionado's list of Hollywood's greatest directors. But he is renowned nearly as much for his mistakes as for his masterpieces, for his bluster as for his brilliance, for the money he has lost as for the fortunes he has made. In an era when playing it safe seems to be the credo of the Hollywood/Wall Street complex, Coppola is a driven, unpredictable renegade who has repeatedly gambled everything in an effort to bring his ideas to life, regardless of the cost. In Francis Ford Coppola, we hear the entire story of this man's career covered in more detail than ever before: from his apprenticeship under Roger Corman to his winning a Director's Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. Along the way, we learn how he turned a pulp Mafia novel into a cinematic classic, how he almost literally killed himself during the filming of Apocalypse Now, and how he confirmed Hollywood's predictions about him, with various flops and follies along the way. In the hands of biographer Michael Schumacher - who gained unprecedented access to Coppola's friends, critics, peers, casts, and crews - the story of Francis Ford Coppola makes for irresistible reading and the first complete picture of this complex, conflicted genius. > two 16-page photo inserts, filmography: p. [514]-522. Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-524) and index > viii, 536 p.

James Clarke: Coppola. London: Virgin, 2003 [hardback]

The step by step companion guide to the work of Francis Ford Coppola. Francis Ford Coppola has made masterpieces and confounded viewers in equal part in his long career. From his expansive Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now to the art-house teen dream of Rumble Fish and the Gothic grandeur of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Coppola's films have become pop culture touchstones. Some of the world's biggest movie stars - among them Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise, Gary Oldman and Matt Damon - have starred in Coppola movies, while, as a producer Coppola has presented some of the most engrossing films of the modern era, such as American Graffiti, Koyaanisqatsi and Kagemusha. Throughout his career Coppola has demonstrated an unerring belief in the power of digital technology to expand the potential of moviemaking and, with Magalopois finally becoming a reality, he has reasserted his position as a Hollywood genious. Coppola takes each of his directorial projects in chronological order and discusses then in accessible sections, making it the indispensable guide to the films of Francis Ford Coppola. > 294 S.

Gene D. Phillips: Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004

Gene Phillips blends biography, studio history, and film criticism to complete the most comprehensive work on Coppola ever written. The force behind such popular and critically acclaimed films as Apocalypse Now and the Godfather trilogy, Coppola has imprinted his distinct style on each of his movies and on the landscape of American popular culture. In Godfather , Phillips argues that Coppola has repeatedly bucked the Hollywood “factory system” in an attempt to create distinct films that reflect his own artistic vision—often to the detriment of his career and finances. Phillips conducted interviews with the director and his colleagues and examined Coppola’s production journals and screenplays. Phillips also reviewed rare copies of Coppola’s student films, his early excursions into soft-core pornography, and his less celebrated productions such as One from the Heart and Tucker: The Man and His Dream . The result is the definitive assessment of one of Hollywood’s most enduring and misunderstood mavericks. > 380 pp.

Gene D. Phillips, Rodney Hill [Hg.]: Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004

Of all the American filmmakers who emerged from the 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939) may be the one most passionately revered by both critics and mainstream audiences. The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II are landmark epics whose shots and dialogue sequences have become wholly absorbed by popular culture. Apocalypse Now, his visionary reworking of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, remains an enduring and controversial template for all future films about the Vietnam War. Coppola's films featured pivotal roles for such actors as Robert Duvall, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Gene Hackman, and Harrison Ford and cemented the reputations of Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro. His production company, American Zoetrope, helped to launch the careers of directors George Lucas, John Milius, and Carroll Ballard. Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews shows Coppola to be both an intensely personal auteur and a studio-savvy Hollywood player. From the beginning of his career to the present, these conversations reveal him to be brash, candid, sensitive, and willing to engage in heated debate. He reiterates his desire to change the Hollywood system from within and talks openly about the creation of his independent film production company. Featuring interviews conducted by film critics Michael Sragow and Gene D. Phillips and the New Yorker's Lillian Ross, among others, the volume shows how Coppola has evolved from hotshot film maverick to elder statesman of American cinema. > 176 pp., introduction, chronology, filmography, index

Rodney F. Hill, Gene D. Phillips, James M. Welsh: The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2010

Francis Ford Coppola's career has spanned five decades, from low budget films he produced in the early 1960s to more personal films of recent years. Because of the tremendous popular success of The Godfather and the tremendous critical success of its sequel, Coppola is considered to be one of the best directors of all time. The entries in this encyclopedia focus on all aspects of Coppola's work—from his early days with producer Roger Corman to his films as the director of the 1970s. This extensive reference contains material on all of the films Coppola has played a role in, from screenwriter to producer to director, including such classics as Patton, The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now. Each entry is followed by a bibliography of published sources, both in print and online, making The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia the most comprehensive reference on this director's body of work. > hardback, 320 pp.

Jeff Menne: Francis Ford Coppola. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, [2014]

Acclaimed as one of the most influential and innovative American directors, Francis Ford Coppola is also lionized as a maverick auteur at war with Hollywood's power structure and an ardent critic of the postindustrial corporate America it reflects. However, Jeff Menne argues that Coppola exemplifies the new breed of creative corporate person and sees the director's oeuvre as vital for reimagining the corporation in the transformation of Hollywood. Reading auteur theory as the new American business theory, Menne reveals how Coppola's vision of a new kind of company has transformed the worker into a liberated and well-utilized artist, but has also commodified individual creativity at a level unprecedented in corporate history. Coppola negotiated the contradictory roles of shrewd businessman and creative artist by recognizing the two roles are fused in a postindustrial economy. Analyzing films like The Godfather (1972) and the overlooked Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) through Coppola's use of opera, Menne illustrates how Coppola developed a defining musical aesthetic while making films that reflected the idea of a corporation as family - and how his studio, American Zoetrope, came to represent a new brand of auteurism and the model for post-Fordist Hollywood. > x, 148 pages