You liked THE BIG GOODBYE by Sam Wasson…
You'll love his new book about one of the icons of New Hollywood: Francis Ford Coppola!
THE WAY TO HEAVEN
An epic by Francis Ford Coppola
A book by Sam Wasson
Translation by Alexandre Prouvèze
16 cm x 24 cm | 350 pages
ISBN: 9 79–10–93798–27-1
The bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. (the making of Couch Diamonds) and The Big Goodbye (the making of CHINATOWN) returns with a definitive account of Francis Ford Coppola and his dream of reinventing American cinema through his production company, American Zoetrope.
Director of Apocalypse Now and the Godfather trilogy, Francis Ford Coppola is one of America’s great dreamers, and his most magnificent dream is American Zoetrope, the production company he founded in San Francisco years before his gargantuan success, when he was just thirty years old. Through Zoetrope’s experimental, communal utopia, Coppola attempted to reimagine the entire business of filmmaking. Today, more than fifty years later, despite many setbacks, the visionary filmmaker’s dream lives on, most notably in the decades-long production of his film, Megalopolis , the culmination of his ideals.
With unprecedented, total access to Coppola's archives, conducting hundreds of interviews with the artist and those who worked closely with him, Sam Wasson paints an extraordinary portrait. Here is Coppola, charming, brilliant, able to see life and art in terms of family and community, but also plagued by restlessness, recklessness, and a desire to operate perpetually at the extremes.
Released on June 20, 2024
