Coppola's Personal Apocalypse

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This week on the program, we're fortunate to have not one but two nights featuring legendary director Francis Ford Coppola.

While best known for The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, Coppola has a new film out called Tetro, which is a return to his personal roots as an artist and filmmaker. As Coppola put it in the first of his interview segments, “When I was younger I wanted to write and direct films that were in the spirit and inspiration of the great filmmakers who inspired, really, all of my generation.”

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Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award-winning American film director, producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied theatre. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from…

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