Award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola ‘is raced to hospital’ in Italy
Director Francis Ford Coppola, who was considered one of the biggest film directors of the last century, was hospitalized in Italy.
Local reports show that 86 -year -old Coppola was hospitalized in Calabria on Tuesday morning. The controversial film offered a screening of Megalopolis.
There was no immediately a comment from his team tonight. Unfriended local reports show that Coppola can undergo heart surgery.
The 86 -year -old Coppola spent some of the summer in Italy, partly discovering for his new film, which he plans to shoot this autumn.
Auteur, who won five Oscars in his career, was married to Apocalypse Now, his baptism’s father, Peggy Sue’s married and directed the film Greats, including Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
His wife Eleanor died last spring.
In mid -July, the Magna Graecia Film Festival was welcomed by a young crowd in Soverato as a special guest in the preview of the Film Festival.
“Young people tell me that the world is a chaos,” he said, “But I’m telling them that there is no problem that humanity cannot solve.
Francis Ford Coppola, 86, October 17, 2024 at the DGA Theater in New York DGA depressing to attend DGA honors
Local reports show that the iconic filmmaker was hospitalized in Calabria on Tuesday morning
“ We must build a great future and do it together for our children. And tonight, we make a leap to the future. ‘
After winning an Oscar and becoming a Hollywood icon, Coppola decided to fight Megalopolis, an ambitious film published at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Critics and viewers were disappointed.
The project is the subject of a documentary: Megadoc, directed by Mike Figgis, will be released at the end of August at the 2025 Venice Film Festival.
Coppola has very close ties with Italy and especially with basilica.
Francis’s grandfather Agostino emigrated from Bernalda in the early 1900s, and on May 1, 1989, Coppola became an honorary citizen of the town of Lucanian, where he frequently spent his holidays and also enjoyed the nearby Metapondo beaches in the Ionian Sea.
The filmmaker has a plan to revive the Metaponto region; In fact, he bought an old building to transform it into a hotel in Bernalda.
Coppola is one of the most influential figures of cinema culture.
Michigan is the second generation of Italian immigrant born in Detroit, a father with flute in the local orchestra. He spent most of his childhood in Queens, New York, New York.
Coppola’s wife Eleanor (depicted in 2013) died in the spring last spring. He stayed with his husband during his career
On January 28, 1973, the 30th Golden Globe Awards Gene Hackman and Francis Ford Coppola
His first success was with Petula Clark and Fred Astaire’s 1968 film Finian’s Rainbow.
However, his breakthrough was his baptism in 1974, starring Marlon Brando, Robert de Niro and Al Pacino.
Coppola was initially enthusiastic about the source material, the best -selling book Mario Puzo called ‘cheap’. The studio was not even the first director’s option, and he once said: ‘I was always on the verge of being fired.’
However, the film rearranged a criminal epic as a lively, intelligent story about a family and ties, was the most influential film of a tremendous critical and commercial success and undisputed century. It usually undertakes the surveys of the biggest films ever.
