1. Francis Coppola's maternal grandfather was Francesco Pennino (his namesake).
2. Academy of Achievement, June 17, 1994. www.achievement.org.
3. Peter Cowie, Coppola (New York: Da Capo Press, 1994), 18.
4. Ibid., 22.
1. Vincent LoBrutto, By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992), 261.
2. The novel was written by David Benedictus in 1963 and optioned by Coppola.
3. Michael Goodwin and Naomi Wise, On the Edge: The Life & Times of Francis Coppola (New York: Morrow, 1989), 64.
4. Ibid., 69.
5. Ibid., 67.
6. Michael Schumacher, Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life (New York: Crown, 1999), 47.
1. Peter Cowie, Coppola (New York: Da Capo Press, 1994), 39.
2. The aspect ratio is a measurement of the camera film frame or the projected image stated as ratio of horizontal to vertical.
3. LeRoi Jones (1934–), now known as Amiri Baraka. American poet, teacher, and activist.
4. Sanford Meisner (1905–1997), American actor and acting teacher. Developed a form of method acting known as the Meisner Technique.
5. Dennis Schaefer and Larry Salvato, Masters of Light: Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), 88.
6. Michael Goodwin and Naomi Wise, On the Edge: The Life & Times of Francis Coppola (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989).
1. Michael Schumacher, Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life (New York: Crown, 1999), 80.
2. Michael Goodwin and Naomi Wise, On the Edge: The Life & Times of Francis Coppola (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989), 114.
3. Schumacher, 97.
4. Patricia Bosworth, Marlon Brando (New York: Penguin, Lipper/Viking, 2001), 172.
5. Vincent LoBrutto, Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994), 88–89.
6. Vincent LoBrutto, Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1991), 21.
7. Alex Simon, “Talia Shire Remembers the Family Business,” The Hollywood Interview, September 22, 2008.
8. Michael Goodwin and Naomi Wise, On the Edge: The Life & Times of Francis Coppola (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989), 143.
9. Gerald Peary, American Movie Classics Magazine. Fall 2000.
10. Vincent LoBrutto, Sound on Film: Interviews with the Creators of Film Sound (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994), 90.
11. Ibid., 90.
12. Stephen Randall and the editors of Playboy Magazine, eds. The Playboy Interviews: The Directors (Milwaukee WI: M Press, 2006), 86.
13. Stephen Randall and the editors of Playboy Magazine, eds. The Playboy Interviews: The Directors (Milwaukee, WI: M Press, 2006), 84.
14. Alex Simon, “Talia Shire Remembers the Family Business,” The Hollywood Interview, September 22, 2008.
15. Stephen Randall and the editors of Playboy Magazine, eds. The Playboy Interviews: The Directors (Milwaukee, WI: M Press, 2006), 84.
16. Vincent LoBrutto, Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994), 26–27.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. As quoted in “The Only One Here, Robert De Niro's Unforgettable Characters: The Godfather Part II (1974),” Focus Features, February 13, 2012. www.focusfeatures.com.
20. Academy Award ceremony, 1975. Francis Coppola, accepting Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Godfather Part II on Robert De Niro's behalf.
21. David Thompson, Have You Seen? (New York: Knopf, 2008), 328.
1. Michael Goodwin and Naomi Wise, On The Edge: The Life and Times of Francis Coppola (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989), 200.
2. Stephen Farber and Marc Green, Hollywood Dynasties (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1984). 337.
3. Ibid., 360.
4. Ibid., 361.
5. Peter Cowie, The Apocalypse Now Book (New York: Da Capo, 2001), 11–12.
6. Ibid., 15.
7. John Boorman and Walter Donohue, eds. Projections 6: A Journey into Light (London: Faber and Faber, 1996), 255.
8. Michael Herr is the author of Dispatches, concerning his experiences during the Vietnam War. He was involved in writing Willard's voiceover in Apocalypse Now. He later collaborated with director Stanley Kubrick on the Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket.
9. Vincent LoBrutto, Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1991), 184.
10. “Apocalypse Now (1979),” www.imdbpro.com.
11. Milton Glaser: Francis Ford Coppola commissioned renowned graphic designer Milton Glaser to design a “theater-like” playbill so Apocalypse Now could, in its initial presentation, be run without head or tail credits.
12. Apocalypse Now playbill including Francis Ford Coppola statement. Authors attended screening in August 1979 where playbills were distributed.
1. Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (New York: Anchor Books, 1989).
2. Cameron Bailey, “A Conversation with Francis Ford Coppola 2011,” Toronto International Festival, September 10, 2001.
3. Italian Neorealism: A post–World War II film movement active in Italy from 1944 through 1953 with a moral and stylistic commitment to realism.
4. Thomas Schatz, The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era (New York: Pantheon Books, 1988).
5. Carmine Coppola, page 3 from Napoleon playbill, 1981.
6. Triptych: three separate motion picture screened aligned and attached to create a wide screen image.
7. Tom Luddy is a San Francisco film curator and archivist who screened hard-to-see films for public view. One of the original partners of the Telluride Film Festival.
8. Michael Schumacher, Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life (New York: Crown Publishers, 1999), 183.
9. Jon Lewis, Whom God Wishes to Destroy: Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997), 52–54.
10. Peter Cowie, Coppola (New York: Da Capo Press, 1994), 148.
11. Jon Lewis, Whom God Wishes…, 40.
12. imdbpro.com, “One From the Heart Budget (estimated).”
13. “The Conversation: Francis Coppola & Gay Talese,” Esquire, July 1981, 78.
1. Vincent LoBrutto, Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1991), 35.
2. Michael Goodwin and Naomi Wise, On the Edge: The Life & Times of Francis Coppola (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989), 276.
3. Edward Lewis, “Wim Wenders Discusses Painful ‘Hammett’ Collaboration with Coppola.” The Playlist, October 22, 2011.
4. Aljean Harmetz, “Making ‘The Outsiders’: A Librarian's Dream,” New York Times, March 23, 1983.
5. Manohla Dargis, “Coppola Pays a Return Visit to His Gone with the Wind for Teenagers,” New York Times, September 9, 2005.
6. David Denby, New York Magazine, 1983.
7. Robert Sellers, Hollywood Hellraisers (New York: Skyhorse Publishing), 219.
1. Michael Schumacher, Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life (New York: Crown Publishers, 1999). 339.
2. David Thomson and Lucy Gray, “Idols of the King,” Film Comment 19 (September–October 1983), reprinted in Gene D. Phillips and Rodney Hill (eds.), Francis Ford Coppola Interviews (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2004).
3. Vincent LoBrutto, Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999), 23.
4. Schumacher, 349.
5. Alex Simon, “Interview Robert Evans,” The Hollywood Interview, January 6, 2008, http://thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com/2008/01/robert-evans-hollywood-interview.html.
6. Schumacher, 372.
7. Peter Cowie, Coppola (New York: Da Capo Press, 1994), 196–97.
8. Alex Simon, “Nicolas Cage: Bad to the Bone,” The Hollywood Interview, December 1, 2009.
9. Ibid.
10. Schumacher, 377.
11. Schumacher, 387.
12. William Plummer, “Two Months after Boating Accident Griffin O'Neal Is Indicted in the Death of Friend Gio Coppola,” People 26, no. 6 (August 11, 1986).
13. “Behind the Scenes with America's Great Filmmaking Clan,” The Independent, August 10, 2008; Eleanor Coppola, Notes entry, May 29, 1986.
14. Peter Keough, “Coppola Carves a Cinematic Elegy: Gardens of Stone,” Chicago Sun Times, May 10, 1987.
15. Dave Kehr, “Coppola's ‘Garden’ Too Solemn to Grow on You,” Chicago Tribune, May 6, 1987.
16. Harlan Jacobson, “Vintage Coppola.” Film Comment, January/February 2008, 21.
1. Michael Goodwin and Naomi Wise, On the Edge: The Life & Times of Francis Coppola (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989), 418.
2. Robert Lindsey, New York Times Magazine, July 24, 1988, 139.
3. Michael Schumacher, Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life (New York: Crown Publishers, 1999), 398.
4. Peter Travers, “Picks and Pans Review: Tucker,” People 30, no. 8 (August 22, 1988).
5. Robert Lindsey, New York Times Magazine, July 24, 1988, 139.
6. John Boorman and Walter Donohue (eds.), “Martin Scorsese,” in Projections 11: Film-makers on Film-Making (London: Faber & Faber, 2000), 60.
7. Guy Garcia, “The Next Don?” American Film, December 1990, 28.
8. John Boorman and Walter Donohue (eds.), Projections 6: Film-makers on Film-Making (London: Faber & Faber, 1996), 50.
9. Lynn Hirschberg, “The Coppola Smart Mob,” New York Times, August 31, 2003.
10. John Boorman and Walter Donohue (eds.), Projections 6: Film-makers on Film-Making (London: Faber & Faber, 1996), 61.
11. imdbpro.com, “The Godfather Part III Business: Gross Worldwide Copyright 1990–2012.”
12. “Coppola Files for Bankruptcy,” New York Times, July 2, 1992.
13. John Boorman and Walter Donohue (eds.), Projections 3: Film-makers on Film-Making (London: Faber & Faber, 1994), 10.
14. Ibid., 17.
15. Michael Feeney Callan, Anthony Hopkins: The Unauthorized Biography (New York: Charles Scribner's, 1993), 320.
16. John Boorman and Walter Donohue (eds.), Projections 6: Film-makers on Film-Making (London: Faber & Faber, 1996), 60.
17. John Boorman and Walter Donohue (eds.), Projections 3: Film-makers on Film-Making (London: Faber & Faber, 1994), 38.
18. www.imdbpro.com, “Bram Stoker's Dracula 1993 Worldwide.”
1. Stephen Farber and Marc Green, Hollywood Dynasties (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1984), 373.
2. Patrick Goldstein, “Great Harlot's Ghost!: 1,334 Pages Too Much? Mailer's CIA Novel Is Coppola's Movie by Milius,” Los Angeles Times, December 15, 1991.
3. Michael Schumacher, Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001), 462–63.
4. Ibid., 470.
5. John Boorman and Walter Donohue (eds.), Projections 3: Film-makers on Film-Making (London: Faber & Faber, 1994).
1. “Storytelling—All Story,” Zoetrope: All-Story, n.d. http://www.all-story.com/.
2. Thane Peterson, “A Conversation with Francis Ford Coppola.” Bloomberg Businessweek, September 12, 2000.
3. Andrew Durham is a successful photographer working in commercial advertising for such accounts as Details magazine, Elle, Interview, The New York Times, Time Out, and Louis Vuitton.
4. As quoted in “Milkfed,” I Want to Be a Coppola, August, 13, 2011, http://www.iwanttobeacoppola.com/sofia-coppola-favorites.
5. The Jon Stewart Show, February 2, 2005.
6. Sarah Cristobal, “A monthly look at the faces that have made history: Sofia Coppola,” Style.com.
7. “Reviews: Being John Malkovich,” Film Quarterly 56, no. 1 (Fall 2002).
8. Ethan Smith, “Spike Jonze Unmasked,” New York Magazine–Metro, http://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/features/1267/.
9. Eleanor Coppola, Virgin Suicides, DVD documentary/featurette.
1. Sofia Coppola was born during the making of The Godfather and just weeks after was shown as Connie's newborn baby boy in the pivotal baptism scene.
2. John Boorman and Walter Donohue (eds.), Projections 6: Film-makers on Film-Making (London: Faber & Faber, 1996), 61.
3. Karen Valby, “Fresh Heir: By Following in Her Father's Footsteps, a Young Filmmaker Finds Her Own Way,” Entertainment Weekly, October 3, 2003, 51.
4. Stephanie Hayman, a close friend from high school, cowrote the short.
5. The themes were similar, involving high school girls being bullied.
6. Bill Owens, California photographer; born 1938; received Guggenheim fellowship and NEA grants; known for photographs of domestic scenes.
7. “Q & A Cinematographer Ed Lachman,” AMC Film Critic, May 2008, www.filmcritic.com.
8. “The Virgin Suicides: Production Notes,” Cinema Review, www.cinemareview.com.
9. James Lyons (1960–2007), film editor known for Todd Haynes's films Far from Heaven and Safe.
10. “The Virgin Suicides: The Music,” Cinema Review, www.cinemareview.com.
11. The Virgin Suicides, DVD featurette.
12. Ibid.
13. Sofia played Nancy, a bratty sister in Peggy Sue Got Married, directed by her father and starring Kathleen Turner and her cousin Nicolas Cage.
14. “ The Virgin Suicides: The Cast,” Cinema Review, www.cinemareview.com.
15. Ibid.
1. John Boorman and Walter Donohue (eds.), Projections 6: Film-makers on Film-Making (London: Faber & Faber, 1996), 53.
2. J. J. Martin, “A Fashionable Life: Jacqui Getty,” Harper's Bazaar, May 1, 2007, harpersbazaar.com.
3. Frank Bruni, “The Way We Live Now: Family Album: In the Name of the Father,” New York Times, May 19, 2002, 2.
4. “What I've Learned—Francis Ford Coppola Interview,” Esquire, August 2009, www.esquire.com.
5. www.film4.com, “Producer Kim Aubry: Apocalypse Now Redux: film4 Interview.”
6. Rhett Butler's closing line to Scarlett O'Hara in the motion picture Gone with the Wind.
7. www.film4.com, “Producer Kim Aubry: Apocalypse Now Redux: film4 Interview.”, 5.
8. David Thomson, “Summer Films: Apocalypse Then, and Now,” New York Times, May 13, 2001.
9. Walter Murch, In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing, 2nd ed. (Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 2001), front cover.
10. Nathan Forrest Winters, “Victor Salva's Horror Stories,” Los Angeles Times, June 11, 2006, latimes.com.
1. Lynn Hirschberg, “The Coppola Smart Mob,” New York Times, August 31, 2003, 11.
2. Ibid., 11.
3. Ibid., 2.
4. Ibid.
5. Alexander Ballinger, New Cinematographers (New York: Collins Design, 2004), 36–39.
6. Bumble Ward (Coppola's publicist), in “Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze to Divorce,” USA Today, December 9, 2001, http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-12-09-coppola-divorce_x.htm.
1. Steven Kolpan, A Sense of Place: An Intimate Portrait of the Niebaum–Coppola Winery and the Napa Valley (New York: Routledge, 1999), 86–88.
2. “Our Wines: Discover Our Wines,” Francis Ford Coppola Winery, http://www.franciscoppolawinery.com.
3. “Obituary,” Los Angeles Times, January 24, 2004.
1. Colleen Claes, “Why You Hate Sofia Coppola's ‘Marie Antoinette,’ Open Salon, January 11, 2010, http://open.salon.com/blog/colleenclaes/2010/01/11/why_you_hate_sofia_coppolas_marie_antoinette.
2. The death of Marie Antoinette is not depicted in the film. The film ends with Marie and Louis being forced out of Versailles.
3. Francis Ford Coppola, commentary on featurette of Marie Antoinette DVD.
4. Rebecca Murray, “Hollywood Movies: Writer/Director Sofia Coppola Talks about Marie Antoinette,” About.com.
1. Francis Ford Coppola, Foreword, in Mircea Eliade, Youth without Youth (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2007), vi, vii.
2. Alex Simon, “Francis Ford Coppola Interview,” The Hollywood Interview, January 7, 2008, http://www.thehollywoodinterview.com.
3. Ibid.
1. Ladane Nasseri, “Francis Ford Coppola Sees Cinema World Falling Apart,” Bloomberg, October 11, 2009, http://www.bloomberg.com.
2. “Mihai Malaimare Jr.” Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers, http://www.cinematographers.nl.
3. Larry Rohter, “With Tetro Francis Ford Coppola Is Making His Own Kind of Film,” New York Times, June 3, 2009, AR18.
4. Kaleem Afbab, “Francis Ford Coppola—It's All about the Family Business,” The Independent, June 11, 2010.
5. Larry Rohter, “With Tetro Francis Ford Coppola Is Making His Own Kind of Film,” New York Times, June 3, 2009.
6. Nanette Asimov, “August Coppola, Arts Educator Dies at 75,” SFGate, November 4, 2009.
7. “Obituaries August Coppola,” LATimes.com, October 30, 2009.
1. Frank Bruni, “Elle Fanning, The Next Golden Child Phenomenon,” New York Times, December 8, 2010.
1. David Gritten, “On the Road to Nowhere,” The Telegraph, April 16, 2004.
1. Joelle Diderich, “Sofia Coppola Directs Marni for H&M Campaign,” Women's Wear Daily, December 14, 2011.
1. The Catiline Conspiracy was a conspiracy against ancient Rome during the time of Caesar and Cicero with the objective of destroying the Roman Republic.
2. Jill Kearney, “Francis Ford Coppola: His Latest Hero Dreamed of Producing a New Automobile. Francis Ford Coppola Simply Wants to Create a Whole New Art Form,” Mother Jones, September 1988.
3. “Coppola Eyes All-Star Cast for Megalopolis,” ABC News, July 19, 2001.
4. “Coppola's Megalopolis,” IGN Movies, May 15, 2001, http://movies.ign.com.
5. Statement released by Warner Bros. in Daily Variety, February 26, 1992.
6. Stu Koback, “Kim Aubry: Transferring Zoetrope's Vision,” Film on Disc, n.d., http://www.filmsondisc.com/features/Kim_Aubry.
1. Ariston Anderson, “Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration,” the99percent.com, http://the99percent.com/articles/6973/Francis-Ford-Coppola-On-Risk-Money-Craft-Collaboration. (Interview after Twixt).
2. Eleanor Coppola, Notes on a Life (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2008).
3. Steve Rose, “How Godfather Don Francis Ford Coppola Keeps Film-making in the Family,” The Guardian, June 11, 2010.
4. Presentation of 2010 Irving Thalberg Life Achievement Award to Francis Ford Coppola, speech by George Lucas, Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.
5. Alison Beard, “An Interview with Francis Ford Coppola,” Harvard Business Review, October 2011.
6. “Francis Coppola's Journals,” in John Boorman and Walter Donohue (eds.), Projections 3: Film-makers on Film-Making (London: Faber & Faber, 1994), 12.