By 1982 Francis Ford Coppola had won five Academy Awards; at the same time he was over $20 million in debt following the disastrous failure of One from the Heart. This astute biography critically exam
No director expresses the drive and invention of the new American cinema as brilliantly as Francis Ford Coppola. After three years of research--including exhaustive interviews with Coppola, his friends and his colleagues, Cowie provides a definitive view of the most visionary and charismatic filmmaker of Coppola's generation. Two 8-page photograph inserts.