Apocalypse Now

July 8, 2025

Spielberg, De Niro praise Francis Ford Coppola for AFI Life Achievement Award

May 4, 2025 Krysta Fauria

LOS ANGELES — Steven Spielberg proclaimed, “The Godfather” the “greatest American film ever made,” Robert De Niro teasingly bemoaned being cast in the sequel and not the original and Harrison Ford fought back tears reflecting […]

Q&A: Francis Ford Coppola on ‘Apocalypse Now’ 40 years later

August 13, 2019 Jake Coyle | The Associated Press

NEW YORK — If filmmaking is a war, then “Apocalypse Now” was very nearly Francis Ford Coppola’s Waterloo. The battles Coppola fought while making his 1979 epic nearly destroyed him. A typhoon wrecked a major […]