Francis Ford Coppola

Teresa Wright: Actress starred in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, with Pat Hingle. Teresa Wright: Actress' Broadway comeback in 'The Dark at the Top of the Stairs' (See previous post: “Mother Roles: From Marlon Brando to Hollywood…

Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby movie version directed by Jack Clayton and co-starring Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, and Karen Black. Robert Redford: 'The Great Gatsby' 1974 misfire & box office hit 'The Way We Were' Turner Classic Movies' Star…

The Conversation with Gene Hackman. There are some works of art that are both obviously derivative and just as obviously inferior to the originals. Those simply ape the earlier work, tweak a few minor things, and try to pass off…

Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson: Husband and wife team on the Oscars' Red Carpet. Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson at the Academy Awards Eli Wallach and wife Anne Jackson are seen above arriving at the 2011 Academy Awards ceremony, held…

Angela Lansbury, Laurence Harvey in John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate Nov. 8: For an undisclosed amount, in early November 2010 Warner Bros. has announced plans to buy Leavesden Studios, the “Harry Potter Studios” – the U.K. facilities where Harry Potter…

Somewhere movie with Elle Fanning and Stephen Dorff Sofia Coppola's Somewhere movie, hardly a unanimous critical hit (see further below), was the unanimous Golden Lion winner at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. Coppola's fellow Italian-American filmmaker – and former boyfriend…

Jean-Luc Godard. Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach (right), Kevin Brownlow, and Francis Ford Coppola have been chosen as the recipients of the 2010 special Academy Awards. Godard, Brownlow, and Wallach will receive Honorary Awards; Coppola will be handed the Irving G.…

The Godfather movies: Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 The Godfather. This week at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation's in Culpeper, Va.: John Cusack stars in Stephen Frears' comedy High Fidelity…

The Academy Award-winning documentaries The Stone Carvers (above) and The Times of Harvey Milk will be screened on Monday, October 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Linwood Dunn Theater as the next installment…

The Godfather: Part III with Diane Keaton, George Hamilton, and Al Pacino. Francis Ford Coppola's 1990 best picture nominee The Godfather, Part III will be the next feature presentation in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' “Great To Be…