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Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola

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Schooled in low-budget filmmaking, Francis Ford Coppola (born 1939) has gone on to direct some of the most financially successful and critically acclaimed movies in U.S. cinematic history.Francis Ford... Read more

Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola rests in an elite company of American film directors who often write their own screenplays and at times produce their own movies. He has won five Academy Awards and was the first ... Read more

Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola is one of the first and most successful graduates of the California film schools. Like many of his peers, he has been fascinated with movies since childhood and has drawn on the w... Read more

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Critical Essay by David Denby

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Critical Essay by David Denby The Conversation is remarkably ambitious and serious—a Hitchcockian thriller, a first-rate psychological portrait of a distinctive modern villain (a professional e... Read more

Critical Essay by William S. Pechter

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Critical Essay by William S. Pechter [The Conversation calls strongly to mind] Antonioni's 1966 film, Blow-Up. Though this is most obvious in the actual "blow-up" (i.e., tape-deci... Read more

Critical Essay by Fred Kaplan

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Critical Essay by Fred Kaplan [Much of The Conversation] is very well-made…. There is, of course, no James Bond glamour, and yet Coppola also manages not to show off his sense of realism in any... Read more

Critical Essay by James W. Palmer

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Critical Essay by James W. Palmer Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation is a perplexing film about a wiretapper named Harry Caul who becomes involved in a murder. Harry is less a character in... Read more

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