Francis Ford Coppola is giant of American cinema. He's won multiple Academy Awards and experienced a string of nearly unprecedented successes in the 1970s. Coppola has too many films to cover in one episode, so we are tackling him in a two-parter. Part 1 covers Coppola from the beginning to Apocalypse Now.

Show Notes:

https://thedissolve.com/features/interdisciplinary/158-francis-ford-coppola-takes-the-same-approach-to-wi/

https://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/997-the-conversation-looked-ahead-to-a-world-without-p/

https://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/1000-with-the-conversation-walter-murch-made-the-editor/

https://www.amazon.com/Godfather-Notebook-Francis-Ford-Coppola/dp/1682450740/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1233293/The-maddest-movie-Why-Apocalypse-Now-finest-film-modern-times.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/6189162/The-Godfather-Nobody-enjoyed-one-day-of-it.html

http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/The-Conversation-Blu-Ray-5557.html

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-rain-people-1969

http://kinetofilm.blogspot.com/2010/01/dementia-13-film-review.html