Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of “Apocalypse Now,” and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87. Coppola died Friday at home in Rutherford, California, her family announced in a statement.
Eleanor Coppola , seen in her Los Angeles home in January 1992, has turned the turbulent making of ?Apocalypse Now? in the Philippines by her husband, Francis Coppola, into a documentary. Sixty hours of offstage film, in storage until being edited in 1989, is being released theatrically as ?Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker?s Apocalypse. This undated portrait released by the Coppola family shows Eleanor “Ellie” Jessie Coppola.
Their first-born, Gian-Carlo, quickly became a regular presence in his father’s films, as did their subsequent children, Roman and Sofia . After acting in their father’s films and growing up on sets, all would go into the movies. Roman directed several movies of his own and regularly collaborates with Wes Anderson. He’s president of his father’s San Francisco-based film company, American Zoetrope.
“I was just trying to keep myself occupied with something to do because we were out there for so long,” Eleanor told CNN in 1991. “They wanted five minutes for a TV promotional or something and I thought sooner of later I could get five minutes of film and then it went on to 15 minutes.” “There is part of me that has been waiting for Francis to leave me, or die, so that I can get my life the way I want it,” wrote Eleanor. “I wonder if I have the guts to get it the way I want it with him in it.”
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