Eleanor Coppola, Wife of Francis Ford Coppola, Dead at 87 | 04ZT985 | 2024-04-13 23:08:01
Eleanor Coppola, an award-winning filmmaker and the spouse of director Francis Ford Coppola, has died. She was 87 years previous.
In a press release shared with the Associated Press, the Coppola family introduced that she passed away "surrounded by her family" at her house in Rutherford, California, on Friday, April 12. Her explanation for demise was not revealed.
Born in Los Angeles, California, on Might 4, 1936, Eleanor was raised in Orange County before returning to L.A. to review at UCLA, where she met husband Francis, 84, working on the set of his 1963 horror film, 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.
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Though Eleanor all the time had an interest in movie, it wasn't till she picked up a digital camera to shoot behind-the-scenes footage of husband Francis' award-winning movie 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 just making an attempt to keep me busy or if he needs to keep away from the addition of knowledgeable crew," she wrote in Notes: The Making of Apocalypse Now. "Perhaps both."
The footage captured by Eleanor on the set of her husband's 1978 struggle 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 beginning of the movie concept for me was definitely documenting Apocalypse Now," she advised Deadline in 2017. "I had no concept. I'd made some little artwork movies in the early '70s, however once I obtained this digital camera within the Philippines I used to be simply mesmerized, wanting by means of the viewfinder. I actually responded to that, so I made totally 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 was 2020's Love Is Love Is Love.
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In October last yr, Sofia skipped the New York Movie Pageant for the screening of her film Priscilla to spend time together with her mom.
"I'm so sorry to not be there with you, however I'm with my mom, to whom this movie is dedicated," the writer-director wrote in a press release learn by producer Youree Henley on the time.
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