Francis Ford Coppola

Coppola studied theatre at Hofstra University prior to studying film at UCLA and while there, he made numerous short films, including some soft core porn films. In the early 1960s, he started his professional career making low-budget films with Roger Corman and writing screenplays. His first notable motion picture was made for Corman, the low-budget Dementia 13 (which is available on video). After graduating to mainstream motion pictures with You're a Big Boy Now, Coppola was offered the reins of the movie version of the ...

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Coppola was born by a creative and supportive Italian American family in Detroit, USA, but he grew up in a New York suburb. His father Carmine Coppola, was a a composer and musician. His mother had been an actress. He studied theatre at Hofstra University prior to studying film at UCLA and while there, he made numerous short films, including some soft core porn films. In the early 1960s, he started his professional career making low-budget films with Roger Corman and writing screenplays. His first notable motion picture was made for Cor ...

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1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). 1939 - Events. January 2 - End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. January 13 - Black Friday: 71 people die across Victoria in one of Australia's worst ever bushfires. January 24 - Earthquake kills 30.000 in Chile – about 50.000 sq mi razed January 26 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and ...

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This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. The term B-movie originally referred to a Hollywood motion picture designed to be distributed as the "lower half" of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters, or horror. In the days of the major film studios, this was official terminology that also gave rise to the practice of referring to "A-list ...

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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American film directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script by John Milius (rewritten by Coppola) which was inspired by Joseph Conrad's classic novella Heart of Darkness. Set during the Vietnam War, a taciturn American soldier is sent to "terminate with extreme prejudice" the command of a rogue United States Army Special Forces colonel. The narrative of his journey and its culmination are studded with events which, while bizarre, are based on real Vietnam stories. The soldier's journey becomes i ...

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Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940 in The Bronx, New York, USA) is an American film actor. Pacino is the son of Salvatore Pacino (who was born in Italy) and Rose Gerard (the daughter of an Italian-born father and a New York-born mother of Italian descent). His parents divorced while Pacino was still a child. His grandparents originate from Corleone, Sicily. In the late 1960s, Pacino studied under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg, finding acting a therapeutic outlet in a youth which saw him depressed and so imp ...

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The Battleship Potemkin or Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes The Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It is a fictional narrative film meant to glorify a real-life event that occurred in 1905, the Battleship Potemkin uprising, when the crew of a Russian battleship rebelled against their oppressive officers during the Tsarist regime. Potemkin has been cal ...

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Annie Lennox is an Oscar-winning British rock musician and vocalist. She was born December 25, 1954 in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. As a child, Lennox attended a school for the exceptionally intelligent. She was educated as a classical musican and studied the flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England. After three years as lead singer of The Tourists, Lennox achieved her greatest fame to date as the alto, soul-tinged lead singer of the 1980s rock duo Eurythmics with British musician David A. Stewart. Early ...

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Blowup is a 1966 British-Italian art film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, his first to feature an English language screenplay and also the first British film to feature full frontal female nudity (although expurgated in the VHS videotape release). The film featured David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, and Jane Birkin. The Yardbirds perform in one scene near the film's end. The film won the ...

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Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢 明 in Shinjitai) (March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Kurosawa is perhaps Japan's best-known filmmaker. His films have greatly influenced a whole generation of filmmakers worldwide. Few filmmakers have had a career so long or so acclaimed. His first credited film (Sugata Sanshiro) was released in 1943; his last (Madadayo) in 1993. His many awards include the Legion d'Honneur and ...

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Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906–March 27, 2002) had a career as a screenwriter, film director and producer that spanned more than 50 years and more than 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant film-makers during Hollywood's old age and many of his films achieved both critical and public acclaim. Billy Wilder - Life and work. He was born Samuel Wilder in Sucha, Austria-Hungary (now Poland). His parents, Max Wilder and Eugenia Dittler, were Jewish. He started work in late 1920s as sc ...

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William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr., Ed.D (born July 12, 1937) is an American actor, comedian, educator, television producer and philanthropist. He was the first African-American man to star in his own television series (I Spy with Robert Culp, in the mid-1960s), and also broke racial boundaries with his stand-up comedy career in the 1960s and 1970s. After I Spy he starred in other series, some of which were successful (such as the long-running cartoon Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids), while others were not. In t ...

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Berkeley is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California, in the United States. Its neighbor to the south is the city of Oakland, California. Its eastern border is formed by the Tilden Regional Park. Berkeley is located in Alameda County. Home to the University of California, Berkeley, the city is known for its leftist politics, eclectic mix of residents, nuclear research, and gourmet food. Berkeley California - Places. Berkeley is the site of the University of California, Berkeley, the flags ...

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Digital cinema refers to the use of digital technology to distribute and project motion pictures. The final movie can be distributed electronically and projected using a digital projector instead of a conventional film projector. Note that digital cinema is distinct from high definition television and in particular, digital film is not completely dependent on using television or HDTV standards, aspect ratios, or frame rates, though recent developments in HDTV have led to a resurgence of related interest in using the HD format for digi ...

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1978 in film 1979 1980 in film 1970s in film years in film film 1979 in film - Events. March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. November 1 - Production begins on Raiders of the Lost Ark. December 7 - Star Trek: The Motion Picture debuts in the United States to mixed reviews but strong box office, launching a film franchise that would span 10 films over the next 23 years. It also would eventually lead to t ...

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1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The United States, which had become an influential global power, experienced much of the transition. While the sixties saw social activism, society became more self-absorbed in the seventies. Analyst and writer Tom Wolfe epitomized this feeling in 1976, calling the seventies th ...

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See also Thirteen, a 2003 movie, 13 an album by British band Blur, Thirteen an album by Teenage Fanclub. 13 (thirteen) is the natural number following 12 and preceding 14. << 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 >> List of numbers -- Integers 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 >> 13 number - In mathematics. Thirteen is the 6th smallest prime number; the next is seventeen. 13 is the second Wilson prim ...

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Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 horror film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It starred Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins and Winona Ryder. The original musical score was composed by Wojciech Kilar. Tagline: Love never dies. Bram Stoker's Dracula - Plot summary. Jonathan Harker (Reeves), assistant real estate agent, travels to the mountains of Transylvania to arrange a real estate deal with a Count Dr ...

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The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. The expression of approval is given, along with an Oscar Statuette and a chance for the director to speak, at an annual Academy Awards ceremony. All but twenty of the seventy-seven Oscars for best director (before 2006) were for films that also won the award for best picture. The Academy has selected one director from five nominees each year for the past seven decades ...

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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (originally titled Star Wars) is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by George Lucas. It was the first film to be released in the Star Wars saga, but it is the fourth part of the series by chronology of events. Among fans, it is commonly referred to as "ANH." Nineteen years after the formation of the Galactic Empire, Luke Skywalker is thrust into the struggles of the Rebel Alliance when he meets Obi-Wan Kenobi, who has lived in seclusion for years on the ...

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