"Zoetrope All-Story Workshop The Zoetrope Virtual Studio is a submission destination and collaboration tool for filmmakers and writers founded by Francis Ford Coppola. It is a community where writers and artists in different disciplines and genres can submit and workshop original work. It is also a resource for information about the Coppola family and American Zoetrope. In March 1998, Francis Ford Coppola launched a website where writers could submit their short stories to his magazine, """", and also for evaluation and feedback from the other writer-members. A community of writers quickly formed around the website. It became so popular that"
"along with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. Rubicon closed in August 2008. He brought out the San Francisco-based ""City Magazine"" in the 1970s, but lost $1.5 million on this venture. In 1997, Coppola founded """", a literary magazine devoted to short stories and design. The magazine publishes fiction by emerging writers alongside more recognizable names, such as Woody Allen, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Alice Munro, Don DeLillo, Mary Gaitskill, and Edward Albee; as well as essays, including ones from Mario Vargas Llosa, David Mamet, Steven Spielberg, and Salman Rushdie. Each issue is designed, in its entirety, by a prominent"
"for members only. Launched in June 2000, the culmination of more than four years work, it brings together departments for screenwriters, directors, producers and other filmmaker artists, plus new departments for other creative endeavours. Filmmaker members can workshop a wide range of film arts, including music, graphics, design and film and video. Coppola, with his family, expanded his business ventures to include winemaking in California's Napa Valley, when in 1975 he purchased the former home and adjoining vineyard of Gustave Niebaum in Rutherford, California using proceeds from the first movie in the ""Godfather"" trilogy. His winery produced its first vintage"
"are now entirely organically grown. George Altamura, a real estate developer announced in 2003 that he had partnered with several people, including Francis Ford Coppola, in a project to restore the Uptown Theater in downtown Napa, California in order to create a live entertainment venue. Coppola is also the owner of Francis Ford Coppola Presents, a lifestyle brand under which he markets goods from companies he owns or controls. It includes films and videos, resorts, cafes, a literary magazine, a line of pastas and pasta sauces called Mammarella Foods and a winery. The Francis Ford Coppola Winery near Geyserville, California,"
"the work of American film directors as different as Francis Ford Coppola, Orson Welles, and John Ford. ""The Godfather Book"" (Faber, London, 1997) examined Coppola's trilogy of films, and after a visit to Monument Valley in Utah, he wrote an analysis of Ford's films which were shot there, ""John Ford and the American West"" (Abrams, New York, 2004), examining the importance of the location and the influences of 19th Century American painting. Until 2000 he served as international publishing director of the daily and weekly film industry newspaper, ""Variety"", while recently he has provided more than a dozen voice-over audio"
"Ford Coppola. ""Sight & Sound"" has in the past been the subject of criticism, notably from Raymond Durgnat, who often accused it of elitism, puritanism and snobbery, although he did write for it in the 1950s, and again in the 1990s. The magazine's American counterpart is ""Film Comment"", a magazine published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. It has also been accused of populism in recent years. Closest runners-up: ""Citizen Kane"", ""La Grande Illusion"", and ""The Grapes of Wrath"". (9 mentions apiece) Closest runners-up: ""Hiroshima mon amour"", ""Pather Panchali"" and ""Zero for Conduct"". (11 mentions"
"for the clothing chain Gap. At the beginning of the 1990s, Coppola was often featured in girl-oriented magazines like ""Seventeen"" and ""YM"". In 1994, she co-founded the clothing line ""Milk Fed"" in Japan, with her friend Stephanie Hayman in cooperation with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon. In 2001, the fashion designer Marc Jacobs chose the actress/director to be the ""face"" of his house's fragrance. The campaign involved photographs of Coppola shot by photographer Jürgen Teller, in his signature over-exposed style. The July 2013 issue of ""Elle"" featured photographs shot by Coppola of Paris Hilton at Hilton's Beverly Hills mansion (which makes"
"for Phoenix's ""Funky Squaredance"" was invited into the permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art. He has also been a supporter of cousin Jason Schwartzman's musical side project, Coconut Records. His first feature film, ""CQ,"" premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and was well-received critically. Set in Paris in 1969, ""CQ"" centers on a young film editor trying to juggle his personal and professional life while simultaneously juggling a science fiction adventure and his own personal art film. Coppola's second feature, ""A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III"", debuted in 2012 at the Rome"
"memorabilia from his films. The neighborhood is well known for its cafes and its writers. Coppola wrote much of the screenplay for ""The Godfather"" in the nearby Caffe Trieste and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books is located across the street from the Sentinel Building. American Zoetrope American Zoetrope (also known as Zoetrope Studios from 1979 until 1990) is a privately run American film studio, centered in San Francisco and founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Opened on December 12, 1969, the studio has produced not only the films of Coppola (including ""Apocalypse Now"", ""Bram Stoker's Dracula"" and ""Tetro""),"
"ABC and Disney, and sold a TV pilot ""The Wonder"" to CBS with Executive Producer George Clooney. His novel ""The Third Miracle"" was published in hardcover in 1997 by Carroll & Graf and in paperback by Simon & Schuster and was translated into several languages. The novel was selected for The Book of The Month Club in Spain and Poland. Followed by a film produced by Francis Ford Coppola, directed by Agnieska Holland, starring Ed Harris and Anne Heche, released in April 2000. In 2008 ""The Third Miracle"" was presented at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York"
"debut with the coming-of-age drama ""The Virgin Suicides"" (1999), based on the novel of the same name by Jeffery Eugenides. It was the first of her collaborations with actress Kirsten Dunst. In 2003, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama ""Lost in Translation"" and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. In 2006, Coppola directed the historical drama ""Marie Antoinette"", starring Dunst as the ill-fated French queen. In 2010, with the drama ""Somewhere"", Coppola became the first American woman (and fourth American filmmaker) to win the Golden Lion,"
"Roman Coppola Roman François Coppola (born April 22, 1965) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. With the 2012 film ""Moonrise Kingdom"", he and co-writer Wes Anderson were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2016, his television series ""Mozart in the Jungle"" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Comedy. Coppola serves as president of the San Francisco-based film company American Zoetrope. He is also founder and owner of The Directors Bureau, a commercial and music video production company. Roman Coppola is the son of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and"
"Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola (; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. After directing ""The Rain People"" (1969), he co-wrote the 1970 film ""Patton"", earning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with co-writer Edmund H. North. His directorial prominence was cemented with the release in 1972 of ""The Godfather"", a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, earning praise from both critics and the public before winning three Academy Awards—including his second Oscar (Best Adapted Screenplay,"
"opened the AudioVision Workshop with colleague Professor Gregory Frazier, which utilized Frazier's original process of audio recording descriptions of film and theater action for the benefit of visually impaired audiences. Coppola was the author of the romantic novel ""The Intimacy"" (1978), and was working on a second novel, ""The Nymbus"", while living in Savannah, Georgia. August Coppola's final home was in Los Angeles, where he died of a heart attack on October 27, 2009 at age 75. The 150-seat August Coppola Theater on the San Francisco State campus is named in his honor. Francis Ford Coppola dedicated his 1983 film"
"I plan to begin a process of making one personal movie after another and if something leads me back to look at that, which I'm sure it might, I'll see what makes sense to me."" Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola (; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. After directing ""The Rain People"" (1969), he co-wrote the 1970 film ""Patton"", earning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with co-writer Edmund H. North. His directorial prominence was cemented with"
"beach bags. The bags are handmade in California and known for their signature multicolor designs. Roman Coppola Roman François Coppola (born April 22, 1965) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. With the 2012 film ""Moonrise Kingdom"", he and co-writer Wes Anderson were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2016, his television series ""Mozart in the Jungle"" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Comedy. Coppola serves as president of the San Francisco-based film company American Zoetrope. He is also founder and owner of The Directors Bureau, a commercial and music video"
"of 2005"". Locus (magazine) Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California. It is the news organ and trade journal for the English language science fiction and fantasy fields. It also publishes comprehensive listings of all new books published in the genres. The magazine also presents the annual Locus Awards. ""Locus Online"" was launched in April 1997, as a semi-autonomous web version of ""Locus Magazine"". Charles N. Brown, Ed Meskys, and Dave Vanderwerf founded ""Locus"" in 1968 as a news fanzine to promote the (ultimately successful) bid to host"
"Salt Publishing Salt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched ""Salt Magazine"" in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics. Over the next decade, Kinsella, together with Tracy Ryan, went on to develop Folio(Salt), publishing and co-publishing books and chapbooks focused on a pluralist vision of contemporary poetry which extended across national boundaries and a wide range of poetic practices. Noted for awarding the Crashaw Prize, named in honour of 17th-century metaphysical poet Richard Crashaw. In 1999 John Kinsella, Clive"
"was dismissed in February 1998 because Coppola had waited too long to file suit. After a 10-year hiatus, Coppola returned to directing with ""Youth Without Youth"" in 2007, based on the novella of the same name by Romanian author Mircea Eliade. The film was poorly reviewed, currently holding a 30% 'rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It was made for about $19 million and was given a limited release, only managing $2,624,759 at the box-office. As a result, Coppola announced his plans to produce his own films in order to avoid the marketing input that goes into most films that results"
"""My parents are both artists and we starved, we went through a lot of difficulty growing up because of their choices in life [...] When it comes down to making important decisions about my life and my foundation, you know, their artistic side haunts me. Like maybe I should just do what they did."" Imani Coppola Imani Francesca Coppola (born 1978) is an American singer-songwriter and violinist. Her debut single ""Legend of a Cowgirl"" reached the top 40 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart in 1997. Her debut album, ""Chupacabra"", released by Columbia Records, was praised"
"Kirsten Dunst. The film premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, where Coppola became the second woman (and the first American woman) to win the Best Director award. Coppola was first drawn to the story after reading the book by Jeffrey Eugenides in 1995, at the recommendation of musician Thurston Moore. Coppola said she felt really understood the teenage experience and the mystery that exists between boys and girls, as well as emotions. She has also said that if not for the book, she does not know that she would have a career in film. Coppola was scared to direct"
"Youth Without Youth (film) Youth Without Youth is a 2007 fantasy drama film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novella of the same name by Romanian author Mircea Eliade. The film is a co-production between the United States, Romania, France, Italy and Germany. It was the first film that Coppola had directed in ten years, since 1997's ""The Rainmaker"". It was distributed through Sony Pictures Classics in the United States (where it was released on December 14, 2007) and by Pathé in the UK and France. The music was composed by Grammy Award-winning Argentinian classical composer"
"film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He was an assistant to Trevor Nunn at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also worked as a commissioning editor for Drama at Channel 4, and ran the ""Book at Bedtime"" series for BBC Radio 4. He previously wrote and produced audio readings of the ""Pooh"" stories, with Judi Dench as Kanga and Geoffrey Palmer as Eeyore. He sent the trustees of the A. A. Milne estate two sample stories of his sequel, and it took more than eight years for them to approve the project. At the time of the book's publication he"
"Barthelme, Mei Chin, Julio Cortázar, Marguerite Duras, Natalia Ginzburg, Clarice Lispector, Robie Macauley, Robert Musil, Joyce Carol Oates, Manuel Puig, and John Yau. Though the magazine ostensibly focuses on publishing fiction, as its name implies, it has recently also featured excerpts from Robert Musil's diaries and letters, as well as various writings with an autobiographical slant. Fiction (magazine) Fiction is a literary magazine founded in 1972 by Mark Jay Mirsky, Donald Barthelme, and Max Frisch. It is published by the City College of New York. This is not the same as the French science fiction magazine ""Fiction"", published from 1953-1990."
"their first movies was going to be ""East of Suez"", written and directed by Milius. It was not made. However, the following year saw the release of ""Apocalypse Now"", directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola rewrote the script, which Milius disliked. ""He wanted to ruin it, liberalize it, and turn it into ""Hair"","" said Milius in 1976. ""He sees himself as a great humanitarian, an enlightened soul who will tell you such wonderful things as he does at the end of GODFATHER II-that crime doesn't pay ... Talent-wise, he's no John Ford; character-wise, he's no Steve Spielberg. Francis can't stand"
"floral motifs and female beauty at the forefront of the films set design and mise-en-scene. In the mid-1990s, Coppola and her best friend Zoe Cassavetes helmed the short-lived series Comedy Central series ""Hi Octane"", which spotlit performers in underground music. The show was cancelled after four episodes. In December 2008, Coppola's first commercial premiered during an episode of ""Gossip Girl"". The advertisement she directed for the Christian Dior fragrance ""Miss Dior Chérie"", shot in France with model Maryna Linchuk, was very well received and continues to be popular on YouTube. In October 2014, Coppola launched a series of Christmas ads"
"directed by Francis Ford Coppola in ""Gardens of Stone"" and was subsequently replaced. O'Neal was later charged with manslaughter over the accident. He ultimately pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of ""negligent operation of a boat"", was fined $200 and sentenced to 18 months' probation in 1987. He eventually received an 18-day jail sentence for not performing 400 hours of community service as ordered. At the time of his death, Coppola's fiancée, Jacqui de la Fontaine, was two months pregnant with their only daughter, Gian-Carla ""Gia"" Coppola (born on January 1, 1987). Gia is a writer-director, having made the 2013"
"Eclectica Magazine Eclectica Magazine is one of the oldest surviving online literary publications. Founded in 1996 by Chris Lott and Tom Dooley, ""Eclectica""'s extensive and growing archives contain poetry, fiction, non-fiction, miscellany, travel, opinion and reviews by hundreds of authors from around the world. The first issue appeared in October 1996. Dooley, the remaining founder/editor, published a ""Best Fiction"" anthology in 2003, which was recognized by the IPPY awards as a runner up in the short fiction category for that year. In 2004, ""Eclectica"" took top honors in storySouth's Million Writers Award. ""Eclectica"" has published stories by nominees for the"
"explores ennui among Hollywood stars, the father–daughter relationship and offers an oblique comedy of show business, particularly Hollywood film-making and the life of a ""star"". ""Somewhere"" premiered at the 67th Venice International Film Festival where it received the Golden Lion award for best picture. Critical opinion was mildly positive. Reviewers praised the patience of the film's visual style and its empathy for a handful of characters, but some found ""Somewhere"" to be too repetitive of themes in Coppola's previous work, or did not sympathize with the protagonist because of his relative success. It was released to theaters in the United"
"Rutherford, California, a rural area in Napa Valley, and graduated from St. Helena High School in 1989. She later attended Mills College and the California Institute of the Arts. At 15, she interned with Chanel. After dropping out of college, Coppola started a clothing line called ""Milkfed"", which is now sold exclusively in Japan. Among extensive Hollywood family are her aunt Talia Shire, and her first cousins Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman. Coppola's acting career, marked by frequent criticisms of nepotism and negative reviews, began while she was an infant, as she made background appearances in seven of her father's"
"Francesco Lodolo, Antonio Scacco, Paul Toohill, Fabrizio Usberti, Luca Valtorta, Maurizio Verga, Francesco Zappalà Neural (magazine) Neural is a print magazine established in 1993 dealing with new media art, electronic music and hacktivism. It was founded by Alessandro Ludovico and Minus Habens Records label owner Ivan Iusco in Bari (Italy). In its first issue (distributed in November 1993) there was the only translation in Italian of the William Gibson's ""Agrippa (a book of the dead)"" book. The first topics covered were: cyberpunk (both as a literally and political movement), electronic music, networks and BBS, virtual reality, media, science fiction and"
"Eliza (magazine) Eliza is an American fashion magazine founded in 2007 by Summer Bellessa, who was a Ford Model at that time. The publication is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and began with a circulation (based on its print run) of 10,000 in 2007. The publishing schedule is now irregular and the magazine is only available digitally and by print-on-demand via HP MagCloud. The magazine's name is a reference to Audrey Hepburn's performance as Eliza Doolittle in ""My Fair Lady"". The magazine describes itself as being ""for women who want to be stylish, sexy, and engaged in the world while"
"Guthrie in 1947. 2015 saw the release of ""The Unraveled Tales of Bob Dylan"" by Douglas Brinkley, as well as ""Narcisa"" by Jonathan Shaw. In August 2017, it was announced that Infinitum Nihil would produce a television series based on Funcom's ""The Secret World"" IP. Infinitum Nihil Infinitum Nihil is an American film production company, founded by Johnny Depp. The company is run by Depp's sister Christi Dembrowski. Depp founded the company in 2004 to develop projects where he will serve as actor and/or producer. ""The Rum Diary"", based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson, was released on October"