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...crucial triumph, however, belonged to Director Francis Ford Coppola, whose incomplete, much delayed, $30 million Viet Nam epic, Apocalypse Now, shared the Golden Palm for Best Picture. Coppola had entered his movie, which stars Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando, as a "work in progress"; presumably, he was awarded a prize in progress...
...previous time Coppola won the Golden Palm, it was for The Conversation (1974), which trailed off unprofitably...
Coming Home and The Deer Hunter, in any case, are only the beginning. Still to come is Francis Ford Coppola's long delayed $35 million Apocalypse Now, opening in August. Coppola has based the film on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Dark ness, translating the tale of savagery and evil from the Congo to Viet Nam. There, Marlon Brando, playing the Mr. Kurtz character, is a renegade Army colonel who has taken over a remote province and set up his own war against the Communists. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent to assassinate the rebellious Kurtz. The movie...
...years later, he continued writing operas (The Italian Straw Hat), symphonies and chamber works during his next 45 years, but achieved his greatest success scoring such films as Fellini's La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½(1963) and Amarcord(1915), as well as Francis Ford Coppola's two Godfather films. Prolific and inventive, Rota often wrote his scores before the director began shooting. Said he: "Music does not need to be hard to understand to be good. It should relax and entertain the audience -not torture them...
Longest Wait for Godot: Francis Ford Coppola's Viet Nam epic, Apocalypse, Now, first scheduled for 1977, now due next fall...