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34
. Kael,
For Keeps
, p. 1037.

10. The Past as Present

1
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 409.

2
. Chown,
Hollywood Auteur
, p. 199.

3
. Siskel, “Celluloid Godfather,” p. 4.

4
. Richard Corliss, “Just a Dream,”
Time
, 13 October 1986, p. 104.

5
. Siskel, “Celluloid Godfather,” p. 4.

6
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 422.

7
. Siskel, “Celluloid Godfather,” p. 4.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Oldham,
Conversations with Film Editors
, p. 335.

10
. Siskel, “Celluloid Godfather,” p. 4.

11
. Lourdeaux,
Italian and Irish Filmmakers
, p. 206.

12
. Bergan,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 126.

13
. Stephen Farber, “Francis Ford Coppola Sallies into TV on a Fairy Tale,”
New York Times
, 27 December 1984, sec. C, p. 20.

14
. Ibid.

11. The Disenchanted

1
. Marcia Coburn, “Car and Striver: Tucker,”
Chicago Tribune
, 7 August 1988, sec. 13, p. 4.

2
. The DVD edition of
Tucker
, released in 2000, has a documentary about the making of the film, as well as an audio commentary track by Coppola. I will quote from both the documentary and Coppola's commentary.

3
. Coburn, “Car and Striver,” p. 6.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 16.

6
. William Murray, “
Playboy
Interview: Francis Ford Coppola,”
Playboy
, July 1975, p. 68.

7
. Johnson,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 170. See also Murray, “
Playboy
Interview,” p. 68.

8
. Francis Ford Coppola, “Memorandum,” p. 195.

9
. Bob Strauss, “Coppola, Lucas, and Tucker,”
Chicago Sun-Times
, 7 August 1988, sec. 2, p. 5. See also Bergan,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 8.

10
. Lindsey, “Promises to Keep,” p. 27.

11
. Ibid., p. 26.

12
. Timothy Corrigan, “Auteurs and the New Hollywood,” in
The New American Cinema
, ed. Jon Lewis (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999), p. 52.

13
. Lindsey, “Promises to Keep,” p. 26.

14
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, pp. 445–47.

15
. Lewis,
Whom God Wishes to Destroy
, p. 153.

16
. Stone,
Conversations with Filmmakers
, p. 646.

17
. Lewis,
Whom God Wishes to Destroy
, p. 153.

18
. Patrick McGilligan, “Arnold Schulman,” in
Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1960s
(Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1997), p. 324. See also Arnold Schulman, “Tucker: The Man and His Dream,” unpublished screenplay (Paramount, 1987).

19
. Breskin,
Filmmakers in Conversation
, p. 41.

20
. Robert Lindsey, “Martin Landau Rolls Up in a New Vehicle,”
New York Times, 7
August 1988, sec. 2, p. 19.

21
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 402.

22
. Lindsey, “Martin Landau Rolls Up in a New Vehicle,” p. 19.

23
. McGilligan, “Arnold Schulman,” p. 325.

24
. Bergan,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 86.

25
. Strauss, “Coppola, Lucas, and Tucker,” p. 5.

26
. Lindsey, “Promises to Keep,” p. 27.

27
. Goodwin and Wise,
On the Edge
, p. 457.

28
. Strauss, “Coppola, Lucas, and Tucker,” p. 5.

29
. Cowie,
Coppola
, p. 219.

30
. Ibid.

31
. Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell,
Film History: An Introduction
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003) p. 523.

32
. Richard Schickel, “On the Road to Utopia,”
Time
, 15 August 1988, p. 68.

33
. Cowie,
Coppola
, p. 218.

34
. Schulman, “Tucker: The Man and His Dream,” p. 125.

35
. Roger Ebert, “
Tucker
Gives Viewers the Legend,”
Chicago Sun-Times
, 12 August 1988, sec. 2, p. 5.

36
. Jay Scott, “Coppola's Wish Comes True,”
Toronto Globe and Mail
, 12 August 1988, sec. C, p. 1.

37
. Strauss, “Coppola, Lucas, and Tucker,” 5.

38
. Francis Coppola, “Frankly Francis,”
Premiere
15, no. 9 (2002): 20.

39
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 406.

40
. Oldham,
Conversations with Film Editors
, p . 338.

41
. Breskin,
Filmmakers in Conversation
, p. 36.

12. Fright Night

1
. Francis Ford Coppola,
Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Film and the Legend
, with James Hart (New York: Newmarket, 1992), pp. 167, 169.

2
. Ibid., p. 2.

3
. Francis Ford Coppola,
Coppola and Eiko on Bram Stoker's Dracula
, with Eiko Ishioka (San Francisco: Collins, 1992), pp. 13–14.

4
. Coppola,
Bram Stoker's Dracula
, p. 2. See also Coppola,
Coppola and Eiko
, p. 13.

5
. Francis Ford Coppola, “Journal,” pp. 17, 25. See also Coppola,
Bram Stoker's Dracula
, p. 3.

6
. Coppola,
Coppola and Eiko
, p. 13.

7
. James Hart, “The First Time I Met Francis Coppola,” in
The First Time I Got Paid for It: Writer's Tales
, ed. Peter Leecourt and Laura Shapiro (New York: Perseus, 2000), p. 86.

8
. Coppola,
Coppola and Eiko
, p. 41.

9
. Coppola,
Bram Stoker's Dracula
,
p. 42.

10
. Eleanor Coppola, “Further Notes,” p. 61.

11
. Larry Timm,
The Soul of Cinema: Film Music
(Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2003), p. 280.

12
. Coppola,
Bram Stoker's Dracula
, p. 162.

13
. Grobel,
Above the Line
, p. 157. See also Coppola,
Bram Stoker's Dracula
, p. 4.

14
. Bergan,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 96.

15
. Hal Hinson, “
Bram Stoker's Dracula
,” in
Flesh and Blood: Film Critics on Violence and Censorship
(San Francisco: Mercury House, 1995), p. 168.

16
. Coppola, “Journal,” p. 24.

17
. Ibid., pp. 24, 31–32.

18
. Ibid., pp. 32, 34.

19
. Coppola,
Coppola and Eiko
, p. 14.

20
. Coppola,
Bram Stoker's Dracula
, p. 96.

21
. Coppola, “Journal,” pp. 18–19.

22
. Coppola,
Bram Stoker's Dracula
, p. 96.

23
. James Hart, “Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Screenplay,” in Francis Ford Coppola,
Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Film and the Legend
, with James Hart, (New York: Newmarket, 1992), p. 163.

24
. Coppola, “Journal,” pp. 31–32.

25
. Richard Corliss, “A Vampire with a Heart,”
Time
, 23 November 1992, p. 71.

26
. Cowie,
Coppola
, p. 249.

27
. Coppola, “Journal,” p. 19.

28
. Hinson, “
Bram Stoker's Dracula
,” p. 169.

29
. Corliss, “Vampire with a Heart,” p. 71. See also Carol Fry and Robert Craig, “The Genesis of Coppola's
Dracula,” Literature/Film Quarterly
30, no. 4 (2002): 272–75.

30
. Coppola, “Journal,” pp. 37–38.

31
. Lewis, “Paramount Studios,” p. 50.

32
. David Cook, “Auteur Cinema and the Film Generation in the 1970's Hollywood,” in
The New American Cinema
, ed. Jon Lewis (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999), p. 19.

33
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 455.

13. The Vanishing Hero

1
. Mark Caro, “Francis Coppola: An Interview,”
Chicago Tribune
, 20 November 1997, sec. 5, p. 1.

2
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 474.

3
. Steven Daly, “Matt Damon,”
Details
, September 1998, p. 225.

4
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 474.

5
. Kent Jones, “Mythmaker: Francis Ford Coppola,”
Film Comment
38, no. 2 (2002): 34.

6
. Bruce Diones,
“The Rainmaker,” New Yorker
, 5 January 1998, p. 22.

7
. lones, “Mythmaker,” p. 34.

8
. Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Southern Accents,”
Chicago Reader
, 28 November 1997, sec. 1, p. 40.

9
. Michael Wilmington, “Courting Success,”
Chicago Tribune
, 21 November 1997, sec. 7, p. O.

10
. Bergan,
Francis Ford Coppola
, pp. 13, 99.

11
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 464.

12
. Bergan,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 100.

13
. Ibid., p. 140.

14
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 469.

15
. Bergan,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 99.

16
. Gene Siskel, “Tiresome
Jack,” Chicago Tribune
, 9 August 1996, sec. B, p. B.

17
. Michael Wilmington, “Trapped in the
Jack
Box,”
Chicago Tribune
, 9 August 1996, sec. B, p. CI.

18
. Ibid., sec. B, p. I. See also Ozer,
Film Review Annual
(1997), pp. 713–18, for a survey of the film's reviews.

Epilogue

1
. Timothy Corrigan, “Auteurs and the New Hollywood,” p. 57.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Caro, “Francis Ford Coppola: An Interview,” p. 1.

4
. Ibid., p. 9.

5
. Stephen Galloway, “Coppola Sues Warners over
Pinocchio,” Hollywood Reporter
, 14 September 1995, p. 1.

6
. Schumacher,
Francis Ford Coppola
, p. 467.

7
. Judy Brennan and Chris Nashawaty, “Coppola Bucks,”
Entertainment Weekly
, 24 July 1998, p. 25. See also “Won by a Nose,”
Sight and Sound
, n.s., 8, no. 9 (1998): 5.

8
. Cal Fussman, “Al Pacino,”
Esquire
, July 2002, p. 49.

9
. Claudia Eller and James Bates, “Coppola: Verdict is Vindication,”
Chicago Sun-Times
, 22 July 1998, p. 51. See also Caro, “Francis Coppola: An Interview,” p. 9.

10
. Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Movies:
Bram Stoker's Dracula,” Chicago Reader
, 21 February 2003, sec. 2, p. 4.

11
. Caro, “Francis Ford Coppola: An Interview,” p. 5.

12
. David Thomson,
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
, rev. ed. (New York: Knopf, 2002), pp. 176–77.

13
. Yaquinto,
Pump ‘em Full of Lead
, p. 147.

14
. Biskind,
Easy Riders
, p. 426.

15
. “Leave the Gun, Keep the Libretto,”
Time
, 21 August 2000, p. 78.

16
. John Horn, “First Take:
Supernova,” Premiere
13, no. 6 (2000): 36.

17
. Thomson,
New Biographical Dictionary of Film
, p. 178; Ryan Gilbey,
It Don't Worry Me
(London: Faber and Faber, 2003).

18
. Francis Ford Coppola, “Coppola Speaks,”
Film Comment
38, no. 4 (2002): p. 78.

19
. Jones, “Mythmaker,” p. 30, 36.

20
. Breskin,
Filmmakers in Conversation
, p. 14.

21
. Strauss, “Coppola, Lucas, and Tucker,” p. 5.

22
. Coppola, “Coppola Speaks,” p. 78.

23
. Jones, “Mythmaker,” p. 30.

24
. Lynn Hirschberg, “The Coppola Smart Mob,”
New York Times Magazine
, 31 August 2003, p. 35. See also Mark Olson, “Sofia Coppola: Interview,”
Sight and Sound
14, no. 1 (January 2004): 15.

25
. Glenn Kenny, “The 75 Most Influential Movies,”
Premiere
12, no. 4 (January 2004): 5; “This Week's Scary Movies,”
TV Guide
, January 2, 2004, p. 7

Selected Bibliography

(N.B.: Only the most significant research materials are included here. Some books and articles alluded to in the text are not listed below.)


Apocalypse Now
.”
Film and Broadcasting Review
, 15 September 1979, 95–96.

Apocalypse Now
. Souvenir Program. United Artists, 1979.


Apocalypse Now
: Special Section.”
Conradiana
13, no. 1 (1981): 35–58.

Bach, Steven.
Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego
. Rev. ed. New York: Newmarket Press, 1999.

Beaver, Frank, ed.
100 Years of American Cinema
. New York: Macmillan, 2000.

Bergan, Ronald.
Francis Ford Coppola
. New York: Orion Books, 1998.

Biskind, Peter.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: Coppola, Scorsese, and Other Directors
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.

          
.
Godfather Companion
. New York: Harper-Collins, 1990.

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