Description
Close Ups is a series of lively anecdotal biographies of movie directors working today, concentrating on their approach to movie making. The series is illustrated with rare photographs of the director behind the camera and including, for the first time, movie reviews from MARITY accompanied by a complete list of credits for each movie.
Francis Ford Coppola's 40 year career has been an exciting roller-coaster affair. Not only has he always been torn between two extremes of film making - the massive epic and the small, intimate picture - but also fluctuated between mammoth and modest hits and mammoth and modest disasters. Whatever he does continues to surprise and shock. Coppola began his career in 1961 shooting 'nudie' shorts at UCLA to make money. Within ten years he had won the Oscar for Best Film for The Godfather and that same decade was to make Apocalypse Now.
Francis Coppola has always been determined to take risks. So what is it that motivates him? What makes him take on a movie? How does he approach the script and decide what he wants up there on the screen?
Ronald Bergan, has produced this fascinating behind the scenes account of how Francis Coppola really makes movies.
