Francis Ford Coppola gets a ton of credit for being an amazing director, but he was almost the most important producer in Hollywood. When you're bringing up directors who might be considered as the greatest of all time, Francis Ford Coppola's name eventually hits the list. The man behind the Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now has left his mark on Hollywood and continues to churn out indie movies as part of his auteur style. But there was one thing Coppola did that almost revolutionized Hollywood, and I think maybe changed the fate of filmmakers as well. In 1969, after doing studio movies and deciding he wasn't a fan of the system, Coppola opened American Zoetrope. It was his own production shingle in San Francisco. His goal was to take chances on the weird and wild movies that studios usually turned away. The results... were mixed. But it changed the way filmmakers think about cinema and you can see it in action today. Check out this doc on Coppola below from Patrick (H) Willems, it really enlightened me on Coppola's career as well as Zoetrope. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 26 October, 2020