Eleanor Coppola

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Eleanor Coppola (born May 4, 1936 in Los Angeles County , California ) is an American director, screenwriter and artist.

Life

Eleanor Coppola, nee Neil, grew up in the town of Sunset Beach . In 1962/63 she worked as a set decorator for the film Dementia 13 . Here she met her future husband, Francis Ford Coppola , who appeared as a director for the second time in this production. After a few months of relationship, she became pregnant and the two married. As a result, she was no longer visible to the outside world in the film business for the following decades.

Gian-Carlo Coppola was born in 1963 and died in a boat accident in 1986. The son Roman Coppola was born in 1965, followed by Sofia Coppola in 1971 . All children were and are also active in the film business.

She was also artistically active in the 1970s, but that received little attention at the time.

In the 1980s, she published the book Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now about her experiences of living together with her husband and the associated filming . In 2008 she published the also autobiographical book Notes on a Life . In both books she reflects critically and a. their married life.

She has appeared as a documentary filmmaker since the early 1990s. In the film Journey into the Heart of Darkness , released in 1991, the multi-year filming of Apocalypse Now is documented based on her recordings. Together with the directors George Hickenlooper and Fax Bahr, who participated in the completion of the film, she won an Emmy Award for this .

In 2017 she released her first feature film with Paris Can Wait , which is based on autobiographical experiences from 2009.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1991: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
  • 1996: A Visit to China's Miao Country (short documentation)
  • 1998: Making of 'The Virgin Suicides' (short documentary)
  • 2007: The Making of 'Marie Antoinette' (short documentary)
  • 2007: Coda: Thirty Years Later
  • 2017: Paris Can Wait (Bonjour Anne)
  • 2017: Two for Dinner (short film)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article and interview: Don't call her Mrs. Corleone on the website salon.com, accessed on April 17, 2019 (English).

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personal data
SURNAME Coppola, Eleanor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles County , California , United States