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Francis Ford Coppola took to Instagram today and posted the first teaser from his eagerly awaited film, Megalopolis. Along with the teaser, he posted a tribute to his late wife in the captions. “Megalopolis has always been a film dedicated to my dear wife Eleanor,” he wrote. “I really had hoped…

Few followers of cinema could dispute the influence of Francis Ford Coppola, the director of such cinematic masterworks as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. But when Eleanor Coppola, who sadly passed away yesterday, set her camera on the action behind the scenes of Apocalypse Now, she would lay the…

To outsiders, Eleanor Coppola, who died Friday at age 87, presented as soft spoken and unassuming, yet as someone who always understood exactly what was going on. When I first met her she was playing the role of the perfect ’60s “hippie chick” who hung with…

Eleanor Coppola, who won an Emmy for the Apocalypse Now documentary Hearts of Darkness, directed Paris Can Wait and Love Is Love Is Love and was married to Francis Ford Coppola for 61 years, died Friday at her home in Rutherford, CA. She was 87. She also is the mother of Oscar-winning filmmaker…

Sofia Coppola's Priscilla Presley biopic Priscilla is the centerpiece premiere at the New York Film Festival this evening, but the filmmaker had to miss the movie’s presser today at short notice, sending a note that she is "with her mother."  "I'm so proud to have our film at the NYFF in my hometown,&#8221…

"Francis feels very frustrated," wrote Eleanor Coppola in Notes: The Making of Apocalypse Now. "He gathers up his Oscars and throws them out the window. The children pick up the pieces in the back yard. Four of the five are broken." The shoot for Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic had yet to even begin—the…

Eleanor Coppola, wife of renowned filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, arrived at the Toronto International Film Festival this week with the sexy, charming road movie Paris Can Wait, her first narrative feature after decades in the industry. Acclaimed for her work in the documentary format (Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's…