Eleanor Coppola shares her extraordinary life as an artist, filmmaker, wife, and mother in a book that captures the glamour and grit of Hollywood and reveals the private tragedies and joys that tested and strengthened her over the past twenty years. Her first book, Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now,was hailed as “one of the most revealing of all first hand looks at the movies” (Los Angeles Herald Examiner). And now the author brings the same honesty, insight, and wit to this absorbing account of the next chapters in her life. In this new work we travel back and forth with her from the swirling center of the film world to the intimate heart of her family. She offers a fascinating look at the vision that drives her husband, Francis Ford Coppola, and describes her daughter Sofia’s rise to fame with the film Lost in Translation. Even as she visits faraway movie sets and attends parties, she is pulled back to pursue her own art, but is always focused on keeping her family safe. The death of their son Gio in a boating accident in 1986 and her struggle to cope with her grief and anger leads to a moving exploration of her deepest feelings as a woman and a mother. Written with a quiet strength, Eleanor Coppola’s powerful portrait of the conflicting demands of family, love and art is at once very personal and universally resonant.

Notes on a Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Coppola, Eleanor

Arts & Literature

Nan A. Talese

In the spring of 1976, the film-maker, Francis Ford Coppola, and his family left California for the Philippines, where the film "Apocalypse Now" was to be filmed. In this book Coppola's wife records the events of a period which stretched from months into years.

Notes: The Making of Apocalypse Now

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Eleanor Coppola

(Limelight). "It may be the most lucid account of the strain of epic moviemaking that we'll ever get. At its center there's a great artist-hero caught in a trap struggling to find the theme of the picture he's already shooting." Pauline Kael

Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now

Limelight Editions

Eleanor Coppola's first book, Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now, was hailed as “one of the most revealing of all firsthand looks at the movies” (Los Angeles Herald Examiner). Now the author brings the same honesty, insight, and wit to this absorbing account of the next chapters in her life. In this new work we travel back and forth with her from the swirling center of the film world to the intimate heart of her family. She offers a fascinating look at the vision that drives her husband, Francis Ford Coppola, and describes her daughter Sofia's rise to fame with the film Lost in Translation. Even as she visits faraway movie sets and attends parties, she is pulled back to pursue her own art but is always focused on keeping her family safe. The death of their son Gio in a boating accident in 1986 and her struggle to cope with her grief and anger lead to a moving exploration of her deepest feelings as a woman and as a mother. Written with a quiet strength, Eleanor Coppola's powerful portrait of the conflicting demands of family, love, and art is at once very personal and universally resonant.

Notes on a Life (Applause Books)

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Notas a Apocalypse Now: Crónica de un rodaje maldito

Barlin Libros

Esta película no es sobre Vietnam, es Vietnam, afirmó de Apocalypse Now, su director Francís Ford Coppola al recibir la Palma de Oro en Cannes de 1979. La producción triplicó su presupuesto de millones de dólares: un tifón arrasó los decorados y las cámaras. Martin Sheen, la estrella, sufrió un infarto durante el rodaje.Este es un diario acerca de ese delirio, de las contradicciones entre la inspiracion artistica y los obstaculos de una industria despiadada, de la embriaguez del poder.

Con El Corazon En Tinieblas: UN Diario Intimo De Apocalipse Now (Spanish Edition)

Emecé

Notas A Apocalipsis Now: Diario de una Filmacion (Spanish Edition)

Emecé Editores

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