Godfather (66 page)

58
. Howard Hampton, “
Apocalypse Now Redux,” Film Comment
37, no. 3 (2001) : 42; cf. Wallace Watson, “Willard as Narrator,”
Conradiana
13, no. 1 (1981): 37.

59
. David Sundleson,
“Danse Macabre,” Conradiana
13, no. 1 (1981): 44.

60
. Peter Cowie,
The Apocalypse Now Book
(New York: Da Capo, 2001), pp. 80, 156. See also John Tessitore, “The Literary Roots of
Apocalypse Now,” New York Times
, 21 October 1979, sec. 2, p. 21.

61
. Joseph Conrad,
Youth and Heart of Darkness
(New York: Doubleday, 1925), p. 118.

62
. Joy Boyum,
Double Exposure: Fiction into Film
(New York: Universe, 1985), p. 111.

63
. Philip Horne, “Casualties of War,”
Sight and Sound
, n.s., 11, no. 11 (2001): 14.

64
. Ibid., p. 15. See also Richard Corliss, “
Apocalypse
Back Then, and Now,”
Time
, 6 August 2001, p. 60.

65
. Cowie,
Apocalypse Now Book
, p. 73.

66
. Chiu, “Coppola's Cinematic
Apocalypse
.”

67
. Peter Keough, “Coppola Carves Out a Cinematic Elegy,”
Chicago Sun-Times Show
, 10 May 1987, p. 5.

68
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 382.

69
. See Ziesmer,
Ready When You Are
, pp. 195ff.

70
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 416.

71
. Keough, “Coppola Carves Out a Cinematic Elegy,” p. 5.

72
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 425.

73
. Jeff Silverman, “Angelica's Arrival,”
Chicago Tribune
, 10 May 1987, sec. 13, p. 7.

74
. Robert Lindsey, “Coppola Returns to the Vietnam Era,”
New York Times
, 3 May 1987, sec. 2, p. 34.

75
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 388. See also Cowie,
Coppola
, p. 208.

76
. Cowie,
Coppola
, p. 208.

77
. Francis Ford Coppola, 8 August 1991, “Journal: 1989–1993,” in
Projection Three: Filmmakers on Filmmaking
, ed. John Boorman and Walter Donohue (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994), p. 17.

78
. Lindsey, “Coppola Returns to the Vietnam Era.” p. 34.

79
. Oldham,
Conversations with Film Editors
, p. 331.

80
. Keough, “Coppola Carves Out a Cinematic Elegy,” p. 5.

81
. Oldham,
Conversations with Film Editors
, p. 331.

82
. Keough, “Coppola Carves Out a Cinematic Elegy,” p. 9.

83
. Richard Blake, “Overgrown:
Gardens of Stone,” America
, 17 June 1987, p. 506.

1
. Biskind,
Easy Riders
, p. 417.

2
. Chaillet and Vincent,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 73.

3
. Lillian Ross, “Some Figures on a Fantasy: Francis Ford Coppola,
New Yorker
, 8 November 1982, p. 49.

4
. Lewis,
Whom God Wishes to Destroy
, pp. 10–11.

5
. Francis Coppola, “Memorandum,”
Esquire
, November 1977, pp. 190–96 passim.

6
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 267. See also Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 291.

7
. Cowie,
Coppola
, p. 155. See also Chaillet and Vincent,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 88.

8
. Ross, “Some Figures on a Fantasy,” p. 49.

9
. Cf. Scott Haller, “Francis Coppola's Biggest Gamble,”
Saturday Review
, July 1961, p. 26.

10
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 317.

11
. Biskind,
Easy Riders
, p. 418.

12
. Ross, “Some Figures on a Fantasy,” p. 69.

13
. Haller, “Francis Coppola's Biggest Gamble,” p. 24. See also Ross, “Some Figures on a Fantasy,” p. 69.

14
. Ross, “Some Figures on a Fantasy,” pp. 68–69. See also Lewis,
Whom God Wishes to Destroy
, pp. 57–59.

15
. Ross, “Some Figures on a Fantasy,” p. 69.

16
. Pollock,
George Lucas
, p. 245. See also Ross, “Some Figures on a Fantasy,” pp. 76, 81.

17
. LoBrutto,
Film Editors on Editing
, p. 100.

18
. Ibid.

19
. Richard Jameson, “One from Coppola,”
Film Comment
17, no. 3 (1981): 4.

20
. Ross, “Some Figures on a Fantasy,” p. 76.

21
. Richard Corliss, “Coppola Previews His New Film,”
Time
, 25 January 1982, p. 70. See also Ross, “Some Figures on a Fantasy,” pp. 75–76.

22
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 306.

23
. Chaillet and Vincent,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 90.

24
. Richard Corliss, “Surrendering to the Big Dream,”
Time
, 25 January 1982, p. 71.

25
. Pauline Kael,
Taking It All In
(New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984), pp. 296–98.

26
. Jerome Ozer, ed.,
Film Review Annual
(Englewood, N.J.: Film Review Publications, 1983), p. 859; see also pp. 858–69 for a survey of the film's reviews.

27
. Chaillet and Vincent,
Francis Ford Coppola
, pp. 87–88.

28
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 278.

29
. Leonard Matlin, et al.,
Movie Guide
, rev. ed. (New York: Penguin, 2003), p. 570; cf. Todd McCarthy, “Michael Powell: Zoetrope's Senior Director in Residence,” in
Michael Powell: Interviews
, ed. David Lazar (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003), pp. 67–70.

30
. Greg Solmon, “Walter Hill's
Supernova
,”
Film Comment
36, no. 4 (2000): 22.

31
. Gallagher,
Film Directors on Film Directing
, pp. 273–74.

32
. Robert Lindsey, “Promises to Keep,”
New York Times Magazine
, 24 July 1988, p. 27.

33
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 410.

34
. Bergan,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 74.

35
. Keough, “Coppola Carves Out a Cinematic Elegy,” p. 9. See also Lindsey, “Promises to Keep,” p. 27.

36
. Cited by Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 337.

1
. Bergan,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 65.

2
. Lewis,
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
, pp. 100–101.

3
. David Thomson and Lucy Gray, “Idols of the King,”
Film Comment
19, no. 5 (1983): 64.

4
. Chaillet and Vincent,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 93.

5
. Stephen Farber, “Directors Join the S. E. Hinton Fan Club,”
New York Times
, 20 March 1983, sec. 2, p. 19.

6
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 346.

7
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 324. See also Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 346.

8
. Thomson and Gray, “Idols of the King,” 65. See also Chaillet and Vincent,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 93.

9
. Thomson and Gray, “Idols of the King,” 62.

10
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 320.

11
. Farber, “Directors Join the S. E. Hinton Fan Club,” sec. 2, p. 27.

12
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 343.

13
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 323.

14
. Thomson and Gray, “Idols of the King,” p. 65.

15
. Chaillet and Vincent,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 93.

16
. Chown,
Hollywood Auteur
, p. 165.

17
. Richard Corliss, “Playing Tough,”
Time
, 4 April 1983, p. 78. For the comparison with
Scorpio Rising
, see
The Advocate
, 22 April 1983, p. 40.

18
. Cowie,
Coppola
, p. 170.

19
. See Francis Ford Coppola, “The Outsiders,” with Katherine Rowell, unpublished screenplay (Warner Bros., 1982), pp. 115–16.

20
. Ibid., pp. 116–17.

21
. Ibid., p. 114.

22
. Corliss, “Playing Tough,” p. 78.

23
. Thomson and Gray, “Idols of the King,” 64.

24
. Farber, “Directors Join the S. E. Hinton Fan Club,” sec. 2, p. 27.

25
. Thomson and Gray, “Idols of the King,” 65–66.

26
. Ibid., 63.

27
. Farber, “Directors Join the S. E. Hinton Fan Club,” sec. 2, p. 27.

28
. Foster Hirsch,
The Dark Side of the Screen
(New York: Da Capo, 1982), p. 54.

29
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 352.

30
. Farber, “Directors Join the S. E. Hinton Fan Club,” sec. 2, p. 27.

31
. Gallagher,
Film Directors on Film Directing
, p. 136.

32
. Oldham,
Conversations with Film Editors
, p. 330.

33
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 383.

34
. Jon Lewis, “The Road to Romance and Ruin:
Rumble Fish
,” in
Crisis Cinema
, ed. Christopher Starrett (Washington, D.C.: Maison Elve Press, 1993), pp. 136–37.

35
. Thomson and Gray, “Idols of the King,” 63.

36
. Cowie,
Coppola
, p. 176.

37
. Lourdeaux,
Italian and Irish Filmmakers
, p. 202.

38
. Francis Ford Coppola, “Rumble Fish,” with S. E. Hinton, unpublished screenplay (Universal, 1982), pp. 93–94.

39
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 350.

40
. David Ehrenstein, “One from the Art,”
Film Comment
29, no. 1 (1993): 30. See also Ozer,
Film Review Annual
(1984), pp. 1020–32, for a survey of the film's reviews.

41
. Oldham,
Conversations with Film Editors
, p. 330.

42
. Bergan,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 69.

1
. Michael Daly, “A True Tale of Hollywood,”
New York
, 7 May 1984, p. 46. See also Evans,
Kid Stays in the Picture
, p. 334.

2
. Douglas Brode,
Money, Women, and Guns: Crime Movies
(New York: Carol, 1995), p. 97. See also Biskind,
Easy Riders
, p. 425.

3
. Thomson and Gray, “Idols of the King,” 74. See also Evans,
Kid Stays in the Picture
, p. 336.

4
. Thomson and Gray, “Idols of the King,” pp. 74–75.

5
. Daly, “A True Tale of Hollywood,” p. 46.

6
. John Connolly, “Man of a Thousand Lives,”
Premiere
14, no. 8 (2001): 96. See also Evans,
Kid Stays in the Picture
, p. 376.

7
. Thomson and Gray, “Idols of the King,” 75.

8
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 366. See also Lewis,
Whom God Wishes to Destroy
, p. 124.

9
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 367.

10
. Chown,
Hollywood Auteur
, p. 187.

11
. Evans,
Kid Stays in the Picture
, p. 345.

12
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 370.

13
. Ibid., p. 372.

14
. Bergan,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 72. See also Evans,
Kid Stays in the Picture
, p. 345.

15
. Biskind,
Easy Riders
, p. 425.

16
. Evans,
Kid Stays in the Picture
, pp. 345–47. See also Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 389.

17
. Cowie,
Coppola
, pp. 183–85.

18
. Ibid.

19
. Daly, “A True Tale of Hollywood,” p. 56.

20
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 349.

21
. Daly, “A True Tale of Hollywood,” p. 53.

22
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 385.

23
. Lewis,
Whom God Wishes to Destroy
, p. 130.

24
. Connolly, “Man of a Thousand Lives,” p. 97; see Evans,
Kid Stays in the Picture
, p. 352.

25
. Oldham,
Conversations with Film Editors
, p. 332.

26
. Evans,
Kid Stays in the Picture
, pp. 353, 357.

27
. Lawrence Grobel,
Above the Line: Conversations with Robert Evans and Others
(New York: Da Capo, 2000), p. 46. See also Lewis,
Whom God Wishes to Destroy
, p. 133.

28
. Cowie,
Coppola
, p. 186.

29
. Oldham,
Conversations with Film Editors
, pp. 332–33.

30
. Neil Isaacs, “
The Cotton Club
: A Reverie,”
Literature/Film Quarterly
24, no. 1 (1996): 110.

31
. Chown,
Hollywood Auteur
, p. 189.

32
. Ibid., p. 190.

33
. Richard Corliss, “Once Upon a Time in Harlem,”
Time
, 17 December 1984, p. 99.