Coppola

[kop-uh-luh]

noun

1. Francis Ford, born 1939, U.S. film director and screenwriter.

Coppola

/ ˈkɒpələ /

noun

1. Francis Ford. born 1939, US film director. His films include The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), Tucker (1988), and The Rainmaker (1997)

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Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola, like fellow US filmmaker Allen, also paid tribute to the "extraordinary" actress over the weekend.

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Despite early parts in films like “Troy” and Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette,” Byrne first broke out in America opposite Glenn Close in the TV drama “Damages,” which ran from 2007 to 2012.

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The band immediately followed it with the score for Sofia Coppola’s debut feature, “The Virgin Suicides,” and those two albums locked in Air as the ultimate turn-of-the-century band for tasteful European melancholy.

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Which puts Figgis in a bit of a dilemma — does he want what’s better for his own film or for Coppola to succeed with the project he has been dreaming of for decades?

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Bill Kilgore from “Apocalypse Now,” the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film that chronicles the breakdown of empathy and examines humanity’s capacity for evil against the backdrop of the Vietnam War.

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