The Hellenic American Union continues the series "Legendary Filmmakers – Iconic American Films" with a tribute to Francis Ford Coppola
Creator of "The Godfather" trilogy, "The Conversation", and "Apocalypse Now", Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great innovators of American cinema in the 1970s and one of the most important directors in the history of American filmmaking. Born on April 7, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan, Coppola grew up in a suburb of New York and went through various stages of cinema before taking up directing himself. In the early 1980s, his supreme ambitions had serious consequences, and the failure of One from the Heart led him to bankruptcy—but not to leaving the film industry. His films of the 1980s, some low-budget, some high-budget, explored different genres ("The Cotton Club", "The Outsiders"), and in the early 1990s he made a major comeback with Bram Stoker’s "Dracula", which remains his last major cinematic work. Since the new millennium, Coppola has turned to producing “smaller,” personal independent films, and this year he returns with "Megalopolis", his first feature since the 2016 production Distant Vision.
During the event, selected scenes from Coppola’s films will be screened, followed by a discussion of the director and his work with the audience.
Speakers include film journalists and critics Giannis Zouboulakis and Konstantinos Kaimakis, with the discussion moderated by journalist and author Makis Provatas.