Back

The Path to Paradise

A Francis Ford Coppola Story

Add to my list

by Sam Wasson

Type

Biographies

Subject

Director > Francis Ford Coppola

Keywords

Francis Ford Coppola

Publishing date

2023
   > See the newer edition (2024)

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 384 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-571-37984-2

User Ratings

(0 vote)

X

Average rating:

0	rating	= We can do without
0	rating	= Good book
0	rating	= Excellent book
0	rating	= Unique / a reference

Your rating: -

Report incorrect or incomplete information

Book Presentation:
Say 'Coppola' and The Godfather immediately comes to mind. But Coppola isn't Corleone -- he's more than that.
He's a visionary who predicted that digital cameras - no larger than one's hand - would allow anyone to make movies. And then set up a studio, Zeotrope, to make his dreams a reality.

The book presents the highs and lows of both his personal and professional life, as Coppola sets out to transform the process of making movies.

Sam Wasson masterly captures the larger-than-life figure of a man who pursued a vision of the world of movies and all the wonder of what that would be.

See the publisher website: Faber & Faber

Newer edition

The Path to Paradise (2024)

A Francis Ford Coppola Story

by Sam Wasson

Publisher: Harper

Subject: Director > Francis Ford Coppola

See the complete filmography of Francis Ford Coppola on the website: IMDB ...

> From the same author:

Hollywood (2024)

The Oral History

by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson

Subject: Studio > Hollywood

Hollywood (2022)

The Oral History

by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson

Subject: Studio > Hollywood

The Big Goodbye (2021)

Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

by Sam Wasson

Subject: One Film > Chinatown

Fosse (2013)

by Sam Wasson

Subject: Director > Bob Fosse

Paul on Mazursky (2011)

by Sam Wasson

Subject: Director > Paul Mazursky

A Splurch in the Kisser (2009)

The Movies of Blake Edwards

by Sam Wasson

Subject: Director > Blake Edwards

> On a related topic:

The Path to Paradise (2024)

A Francis Ford Coppola Story

by Sam Wasson

Subject: Director > Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (2014)

by Jeff Menne

Subject: Director > Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (2004)

Interviews

Dir. Gene D. Phillips and Rodney Hill

Subject: Director > Francis Ford Coppola

Godfather (2004)

The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola

by Gene D. Phillips

Subject: Director > Francis Ford Coppola

Whom God Wishes to Destroy . . . (1995)

Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood

by Jon Lewis

Subject: Director > Francis Ford Coppola

Postmodern Auteurs (1991)

Coppola, Lucas, De Palma, Spielberg and Scorsese

by Kenneth Von Gunden

Subject: Director > Francis Ford Coppola, Brian de Palma, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas

The Lost Decade (2025)

Altman, Coppola, Friedkin and the Hollywood Renaissance Auteur in the 1980s

by Chris Horn

Subject: On Films > Per period

The Outsiders (2024)

Adolescent Tenderness and Staying Gold

by Ann M. Ciasullo

Subject: One Film > The Outsiders

The Godfather and Philosophy (2023)

Dir. Joshua Heter and Richard Greene

Subject: One Film > The Godfather

The Godfather (2022)

by Jon Lewis

Subject: One Film > The Godfather