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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 Altobello), 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
–
20
1,
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

Aymonn the Terrible
(Coppola student film),
12

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

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