Eleanor Coppola, an award-winning filmmaker and the spouse of director Francis Ford Coppola, has died. She was 87 years outdated.
In an announcement shared with the Related Press, the Coppola household introduced that she handed away “surrounded by her household” at her dwelling in Rutherford, California, on Friday, April 12. Her reason behind demise was not revealed.
Born in Los Angeles, California, on Could 4, 1936, Eleanor was raised in Orange County earlier than returning to L.A. to review at UCLA, the place she met husband Francis, 84, engaged on the set of his 1963 horror movie, Dementia 13, per The Hollywood Reporter.
The pair wed in February that yr and share three youngsters collectively: son Gian-Carlo – who died at age 22 in a boating accident in 1986 – son Roman, 58, and daughter Sofia, 55.
The Coppola household has lengthy been Hollywood royalty — and their generation-spanning expertise implies that’s not more likely to change quickly. The well-known lineage started with Carmine Coppola, who was an orchestra conductor and Oscar-winning movie composer. Carmine and his spouse, Italia Pennino, shared three youngsters: August Floyd Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire. All […]
Although Eleanor all the time had an curiosity in movie, it wasn’t till she picked up a digicam to shoot behind-the-scenes footage of husband Francis’ award-winning film Apocalypse Now, whose chaotic manufacturing ran for greater than 230 days, that she really found her ardour for the craft.
“I don’t know if [Francis] is simply attempting to maintain me busy or if he desires to keep away from the addition of an expert crew,” she wrote in Notes: The Making of Apocalypse Now. “Perhaps each.”
The footage captured by Eleanor on the set of her husband’s 1978 battle movie earned her an Emmy Award in 1992 for Excellent Particular person Achievement – Informational Programming – Directing for Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.
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“The start of the movie thought for me was actually documenting Apocalypse Now,” she informed Deadline in 2017. “I had no thought. I’d made some little artwork movies within the early ’70s, however after I bought this digicam within the Philippines I used to be simply mesmerized, wanting via the viewfinder. I actually responded to that, so I made completely different documentaries, as a result of I all the time beloved to shoot.”
Along with Hearts of Darkness, Eleanor additionally directed documentaries chronicling the making of daughter Sofia’s The Virgin Suicides in 1999 and Marie Antoinette in 2006, and directed the 2016 rom-com Paris Can Wait. Her final director credit score was 2020’s Love Is Love Is Love.
Some artistic collaborations are too robust to allow them to be a one time factor. Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Quentin Tarantino are among the many celebrated administrators recognized to rent the identical actors time and again for his or her movies. Throughout a joint Time interview with Tom Hanks in 2015, Spielberg famous that he and the […]
In October final yr, Sofia skipped the New York Movie Competition for the screening of her movie Priscilla to spend time along with her mom.
“I’m so sorry to not be there with you, however I’m with my mom, to whom this movie is devoted,” the writer-director wrote in an announcement learn by producer Youree Henley on the time.
