Produced by Fred Roos and Doug Claybourne for Zoetrope Studios, Universal. Executive producer: Francis Ford Coppola. Associate producers: Gian-Carlo Coppola and Roman Coppola. 94 minutes.
Premiere: October 7, 1983.
The Cotton Club (1984)
Screenplay: William Kennedy and Francis Ford Coppola, from a story by William Kennedy, Francis Ford Coppola, and Mario Puzo, suggested by a pictorial history of James Haskins
Direction: Francis Ford Coppola
Photography (Technicolor): Stephen Goldblatt
Production Design: Richard Sylbert
Art Direction: David Chapman and Gregory Bolton
Costumes: Milena Canonero
Principal Choreographer: Michael Smith
Tap Choreographer: Henry LeTang
Sound Editing: Edward Beyer
Montage and Second-Unit Director: Gian-Carlo Coppola
Editing: Barry Malkin and Robert Q. Lovett
Music: John Barry and Bob Wilber
Cast: Richard Gere (Dixie Dwyer), Gregory Hines (Sandman Williams), Diane Lane (Vera Cicero), Lonette McKee (Lila Rose Oliver), Bob Hoskins (Owney Madden), James Remar (Dutch Schultz), Nicolas Cage (Vincent Dwyer), Allen Garfield (Abbadabba Berman), Fred Gwynne (Frenchy), Gwen Verdon (Tish Dwyer), Lisa Jane Persky (Frances Flegenheimer), Maurice Hines (Clay Williams), Julian Beck (Sol Weinstein), Novella Nelson (Madame St. Claire), Larry Fishburne (Bumpy Rhodes), John Ryan (Joe Flynn), Tom Waits (Irving Stark).
Produced by Robert Evans, for Zoetrope Studios, Orion. Coproducers: Silvio Tabet and Fred Roos. Executive producer: Dyson Lovell. Line producers: Barrie M. Osborne and Joseph Cusumano.
Premiere: December 14, 1984.
“Rip Van Winkle” (1985)
Screenplay: Mark Curtis, Rod Ash, and Francis Ford Coppola (uncredited), from the story by Washington Irving
Direction: Francis Ford Coppola
Photography (color): George Riesenberger
Production Design: Michael Erler
Artistic Consultant: Eiko Ishioka
Costumes: Sam Kirkpatrick
Editing: Murdo Laird, Arden Rynew
Music: Carmine Coppola
Cast: Harry Dean Stanton (Rip Van Winkle), Talia Shire (Wilma Van Winkle), Henry Hudson (John P. Ryan), Mayor (Tim Conway), Ed Begley, Jr., Christopher Penn, Roy Dotrice, Sofia Coppola.
Produced for HBO’s Faerie Tale Theatre television series by Fred Fuchs and Bridget Terry. Executive producer: Shelley Duvall. 48 minutes.
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Screenplay: Jerry Leichtling and Arlene Sarner
Direction: Francis Ford Coppola
Photography (Deluxe): Jordan Cronenweth
Electronic Cinema: Murdo Laird, Ted Mackland, and Ron Mooreland
Production Design: Dean Tavoularis
Art Direction: Alex Tavoularis
Costumes: Theadora Van Runkle
Editing: Barry Malkin
Music: John Barry
Supervisory Sound Editing: Michael Kirchberger
Cast: Kathleen Turner (Peggy Sue Kelcher), Nicolas Cage (Charlie Bodell), Barry Miller (Richard Norvik), Catherine Hicks (Carol Heath), Joan Allen (Maddie Nagle), Kevin J. O’Connor (Michael Fitzsimmons), Jim Carrey (Walter Getz), Lisa Jane Persky (Dolores Dodge), Lucinda Jenney (Rosalie Testa), Wil Shriner (Arthur Nagle), Barbara Harris (Evelyn Kelcher), Don Murray (Jack Kelcher), Sofia Coppola (Nancy Kelcher), Maureen O’Sullivan (Elizabeth Alvorg), Leon Ames (Barney Alvorg), with Helen Hunt and John Carradine.
Produced by Paul R. Gurian for American Zoetrope, Tri-Star, Executive producer: Barrie M. Chase. 104 minutes.
Premiere: October 5, 1986.
Gardens of Stone (1987)
Screenplay: Ronald Bass, based on the novel by Nicholas Proffitt
Direction: Francis Ford Coppola
Photography (Deluxe): Jordan Cronenweth
Production Design: Dean Tavoularis
Art Direction: Alex Tavoularis
Costumes: Will Kim and Judianna Makovsky
Editing: Barry Malkin
Music: Carmine Coppola
Sound Design: Richard Beggs
Cast: James Caan (Clell Hazard), Anjelica Huston (Samantha Davis), James Earl Jones (Sgt. Maj. Goody Nelson), D. B. Sweeney (Jackie Willow), Dean Stockwell (Homer Thomas), Mary Stuart Masterson (Rachel Feld), Dick Anthony Williams (Slasher Williams), Lonette McKee (Betty Rae), Sam Bottoms (Lieutenant Webber), Elias Koteas (Peter Deveber), Larry Fishburne (Flanagan), Casey Siemaszko (Wildman), Peter Masterson (Colonel Feld), Carlin Glynn (Mrs. Feld), Erik Holland (Colonel Godwin), Bill Graham (Don Brubaker).
Produced by Michael I. Levy and Francis Ford Coppola for Tri-Star. Executive producers: Stan Weston, Jay Emmett, and Fred Roos. Coexecutive producer: David Valdes. 111 minutes.
Premiere: May 8, 1987.
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Screenplay: Arnold Schulman and David Seidler
Direction: Francis Ford Coppola
Photography (Technicolor, Technovision): Vittorio Storaro
Production Design: Dean Tavoularis
Art Direction: Alex Tavoularis
Costumes: Milena Canonero
Editing: Priscilla Nedd
Music: Joe Jackson
Sound Design: Richard Beggs
Cast: Jeff Bridges (Preston Tucker), Joan Allen (Vera), Martin Landau (Abe Karatz), Frederic Forrest (Eddie), Mako (Jimmy), Elias Koteas (Alex), Christian Slater (Junior), Nina Siemaszko (Marilyn Lee), Anders Johnson (Johnny), Corky Nemec (Noble), Marshall Bell (Frank), Jay O. Sanders (Kirby), Peter Donat (Kerner), Lloyd Bridges (Senator Ferguson), Dean Goodman (Bennington), John X. Heart (Ferguson’s Aide), Don Novello (Stan), Patti Austin (Millie), Sandy Bull (Stan’s Assistant), Joseph Miksak (Judge), Scott Beach (Floyd Cerf), Roland Scrivner (Oscar Beasley), Dean Stockwell (Howard Hughes), Bob Safford (Narrator), Larry Menkin (Doc), Ron Close (Fritz), Joe Flood (Dutch).
Produced by Fred Roos and Fred Fuchs for Lucasfilm Ltd., Zoetrope Studios, Paramount. Executive producer: George Lucas. Associate producer: Teri Fettis. 111 minutes.
Premiere: August 12, 1988.
“Life Without Zoe” (Segment Two in New York Stories [1989])
Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola
Direction: Francis Ford Coppola
Photography (Technicolor): Vittorio Storaro
Production Design: Dean Tavoularis
Art Direction: Speed Hopkins
Costumes: Sofia Coppola
Editing: Barry Malkin
Music: Carmine Coppola
Sound Recording: Frank Graziadei
Songs: Kid Creole and the Coconuts
Cast: Heather McComb (Zoe), Talia Shire (Charlotte), Gia Coppola (Baby Zoe), Giancarlo Giannini (Claudio), Paul Herman (Clifford), James Keane (Jimmy), Don Novello (Hector), Bill Moor (Mr. Lilly), Tom Mardirosian (Hasid), Jenny Bichold (Lundy), Gia Scianni (Devo), Diane Lin Cosman (Margit), Selim Tlili (Abu), Robin Wood-Chapelle (Gel), Celia Nestell (Hillary), Alexandra Becker (Andrea), Adrien Brody (Mel), Michael Higgins (Robber), Chris Elliott (Robber), Thelma Carpenter (Maid), Carmine Coppola (Street Musician), Carole Bouquet (Princess Soroya), Jo Jo Starbuck (Ice Skater).
Segment producers: Fred Roos and Fred Fuchs for Touchstone Pictures. 34 minutes.
Premiere: February 26, 1989.
The Godfather Part III (1990)
Screenplay: Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola
Direction: Francis Ford Coppola
Photography (Technicolor): Gordon Willis
Production Design: Dean Tavoularis
Art Direction: Alex Tavoularis
Costumes: Milena Canonero
Editing: Barry Malkin, Lisa Fruchtman, and Walter Murch
Music: Carmine Coppola
Additional Music and Themes: Nino Rota
Sound Design: Richard Beggs
Cast: Al Pacino (Michael Corleone), Diane Keaton (Kay Adams), Talia Shire (Connie Corleone Rizzi), Andy Garcia (Vincent Mancini), Eli Wallach (Don Altobell
o), Joe Mantegna (Joey Zasa), George Hamilton (B. J. Harrison), Bridget Fonda (Grace Hamilton), Sofia Coppola (Mary Corleone), Raf Vallone (Cardinal Lamberto), Franc D’Ambrosio (Anthony Corleone), Donal Donnelly (Archbishop Gliday), Richard Bright (Al Neri), Helmut Berger (Frederick Keinszig), Don Novello (Dominic Abbandando), John Savage (Andrew Hagen), Franco Citti (Calo), Mario Donatone (Mosca), Vittorio Duse (Don Tommasino), Enzo Robutti (Lucchesi), Michele Russo (Spara), Al Martino (Johnny Fontane), Robert Cicchini (Lou Pennino), Rogerio Miranda (Armand), Carlos Miranda (Francesco), Jeannie Linero (Lucy Mancini).
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola for Zoetrope Studios, Paramount Pictures. Executive producers: Fred Fuchs and Nicholas Gage. Coproducers: Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson, and Charles Mulvehill. Associate producer: Marina Gefter. 161 minutes (170 minutes, final version [2001]).
Premiere: December 26, 1990.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Screenplay: James V. Hart
Direction: Francis Ford Coppola
Photography (Technicolor): Michael Ballhaus
Visual Effects: Roman Coppola
Production Design: Thomas Sanders
Art Direction: Andrew Precht
Costumes: Eiko Ishioka
Editing: Nicholas C. Smith, Glenn Scantlebury, and Anne Goursaud
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Sound: David Stone
Cast: Gary Oldman (Dracula), Winona Ryder (Mina/Elisabeta), Anthony Hopkins (Abraham Van Helsing), Keanu Reeves (Jonathan Harker), Sadie Frost (Lucy Westenra), Richard E. Grant (Dr. Jack Seward), Cary Elwes (Arthur Holmwood), Billy Campbell (Quincey Morris), Tom Waits (Renfield), Monica Bellucci (Dracula’s Bride), Jay Robinson (Mr. Hawkins), I. M. Hobson (Hobbs), Laurie Frank (Lucy’s Maid).
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Fuchs, and Charles Mulvehill for American Zoetrope, Columbia Pictures. Executive producers: Michael Apted and Robert O’Connor. Coproducer; James V. Hart. Associate producer: Susie Landau. 123 minutes.
Premiere: November 13, 1992
Jack (1996)
Screenplay: James DeMonaco and Gary Nadeau
Direction: Francis Ford Coppola
Photography (Technicolor): John Toll
Production Design: Dean Tavoularis
Art Direction: Angelo Graham
Costumes: Aggie Guerard Rodgers
Editing: Barry Malkin
Music: Michael Kamen
Sound: Agamemnon Andrianos
Cast: Robin Williams (Jack Powell), Diane Lane (Karen Powell), Jennifer Lopez (Miss Marquez), Brian Kerwin (Brian Powell), Fran Drescher (Dolores Durante), Bill Cosby (Lawrence Woodruff), Michael McKean (Paulie), Don Novello (Bartender), Allan Rich (Dr. Benfante), Adam Zolotin (Louis Durante), Todd Bosley (Edward), Seth Smith (John-John), Mario Yedidia (George), Jeremy Lelliott (Johnny Duffer), Rickey O’Shon Collins (Eric), Hugo Hernandez (Victor).
Produced by Ricardo Mestres, Fred Fuchs, and Francis Ford Coppola for American Zoetrope, Buena Vista. Executive producer: Doug Claybourne. 113 minutes.
Premiere: August 9, 1996.
The Rainmaker (1997)
Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel by John Grisham; narration by Michael Herr.
Direction: Francis Ford Coppola
Photography (Deluxe): John Toll
Production Design: Howard Cummings
Art Direction: Robert Shaw, Jeffrey McDonald
Costumes: Aggie Guerard Rodgers
Editing: Barry Malkin
Music: Elmer Bernstein
Sound: Nelson Stoll
Cast: Matt Damon (Rudy Baylor), Claire Danes (Kelly Riker), Jon Voight (Leo F. Drummond), Mary Kay Place (Dot Black), Mickey Rourke (Bruiser Stone), Danny DeVito (Deck Schifflet), Dean Stockwell (Judge Harvey Hale), Teresa Wright (Miss Birdie), Virginia Madsen (Jackie Lemancyzk), Andrew Shue (Cliff Riker), Red West (Buddy Black), Johnny Whitworth (Donny Ray Black), Danny Glover (Judge Tyrone Kipler), Wayne Emmons (Prince Thomas), Adrian Roberts (Butch), Roy Scheider (Wilfred Keeley), Randy Travis (Billy Porter), Michael Girardin (Everett Lufkin), Randall King (Jack Underhall), Justin Ashforth (F. Franklin Donaldson), Michael Keys Hall (B. Bobby Shaw).
Produced by Michael Douglas, Steven Reuther, and Fred Fuchs for American Zoetrope, Paramount Pictures. Coproducer: Georgia Kacandes. Associate producer: Gary Scott Marcus.
Premiere: November 21, 1997.
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
An expanded version of Apocalypse Now, with fifty-three minutes of additional footage.
Editor: Walter Murch
Supervising Sound Editor: Michael Kirchberger
Cast: The French Plantation: Christian Marquand (Hubert DeMarais), Aurora Clément (Roxanne Surrault).
Produced by Kim Aubry for American Zoetrope, Miramax Films. 202 minutes.
Premiere: August 15, 2001.
Index
Abbott and Costello comedies, 113
Academy Awards, 8, 38, 43; Apocalypse Now, 148; Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 298; The Conversation, 83; The Godfather, 110; The Godfather II, 118, 129; Patton, 32, 71
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 197
Adventures of Pinocchio, The (film), 316–17
Albeck, Andreas, 160
Alcott, John, 233, 234
Alexander Nevsky (film), 289
Allen, Joan, 269
Allen, Woody, 278, 279
American Film Institute, 111, 168–69, 321
American Film (journal), 26
American Graffiti (film), 145, 267
American Zoetrope, 64–72, 76, 142, 143, 265, 316; alternate names of, 328 n 25; Apocalypse Now and, 150, 158; bankruptcy of, 72, 179, 200–201, 227, 247, 265; Black Stallion and, 202; Bram Stoker’s Dracula and, 287, 291, 298; DVD label, 323; films by Coppola’s children, 319; history of, 183–87; Jack and, 308, 311; Lucas quits, 145; offices moved, 112–13; One from the Heart and, 187, 191, 198; The Outsiders and, 204, 208, 213; The Rainmaker and, 300, 303; significance of name, 279–80; The Virgin Suicides and, 319; Wenders’s Hammett and, 198
Ames, Leon, 250
Anatomy of a Murder (film), 307
Andrews, Julie, 92
Antonioni, Michelangelo, 82
Apocalypse Now Book, The (Cowie), 4
Apocalypse Now (Coppola film), 4, 11, 69, 146–68, 207, 318; American Zoetrope and, 183; budget overruns, 186, 188, 191, 218, 315; as cinema classic, 71, 168–69; comparison with Gardens of Stone, 173, 178; comparison with Rumble Fish, 214; credits, 357; as dream project for Coppola, 315; on list of greatest movies, 321; military’s displeasure with, 172, 173; original concept for, 67, 143–46; script rights for, 71; test-screening of, 193; USO show sequence, 14
Apocalypse Now Redux (Coppola film), 168–71, 320, 364–65
Ardmore Studios (Dublin, Ireland), 23
art house films, 23
Arzner, Dorothy, 12, 17
Ash, Rod, 257
Ashley, Ted, 67, 68–69, 70
Astaire, Fred, 44, 46, 48, 51
audience response, in sneak previews: Apocalypse Now, 160, 162; Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 291–92, 296; The Conversation and, 83; The Cotton Club, 238, 239; The Godfather II, 125; One from the Heart and, 192–93; Peggy Sue Got Married, 268; The Rain People, 61, 64
Aurenche, Jean, 30
auteur theory, 2–3, 185
Avakian, Aram, 56, 100, 101
Badham, Mary, 29
Bahr, Fax, 150
Balderston, John, 285, 293
Ballard, Carroll, 11, 49, 202
Ballhaus, Michael, 288
Barkleys of Broadway, The (musical film), 48
Barry, John, 250
Bart, Peter, 88, 89, 108
Bass, Ronald, 172
Battle Beyond the Sun (film), 18–19, 320
Beach, The (film), 300
Beck, Julian, 232
Bellboy and the Playgirls, The (early Coppola film), 14–16, 353
Belt Girls and the Playboy, The (early Coppola film), 14
Benedictus, David, 36, 37, 40
Benson, Sheila, 197
Bergan, Ronald, 225
Berger, Helmut, 136
Bernstein, Armyan, 187
Bernstein, Elmer, 301, 307
Bernstein, Leonard, 266
Big Combo, The (film), 96
Big (film), 309
Bill, Tony, 37, 39
Biskind, Peter, 69, 235
Black, Karen, 38, 39
Black Stallion, The (film), 11, 202
“Black Sunday,” 233
“Black Thursday,” 69, 71
Blade Runner (film), 250
Blake, Richard, 169, 178
Blow-Up (film), 82
Bludhorn, Charles, 72–73, 96, 113, 135, 136, 160
Blue Skies (musical film), 48
Bogdanovich, Peter, 17, 72, 73
Boiler Room (film), 261
Bonnie and Clyde (film), 104
Bost, Pierre, 30
Bottoms, Sam, 174
Boulé, Claude, 30
box-office receipts: Apocalypse Now, 168; Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 298; The Cotton Club, 243; the Godfather films, 129, 130, 140, 142; Jack, 312; One from the Heart, 198; The Outsiders, 213, 224; Peggy Sue Got Married, 256; The Rainmaker, 306; Tucker: The Man and His Dream, 278
Boyer, Charles, 30
Boyum, Joy, 167
B pictures, 17–18, 92
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Coppola film), 3, 287–99, 317, 363
Brando, Marlon, 96, 220; in Apocalypse Now, 150, 153, 159, 188, 290; in The Godfather, 94–95, 101, 105, 110, 157; The Godfather II and, 127
Breakfast Club, The (film), 213
Bridges, Jeff, 269, 271, 277
Bridges, Lloyd, 271
British Academy Award, 168
Broadway theater, 46
Brotherhood, The (film), 88, 96
Browning, Tod, 285, 291
Burke, Michelle, 298
Burstein, Nanette, 108, 230