Reading:
The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story (2023) by Sam Wasson: purported to be a biography of a living artist, The Path to Paradise is mostly a slippery corporate history of American Zoetrope and a pair of deep cuts about the cultural and auteurist contexts for Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, which means anyone looking for more about Coppola and the rest of his filmography is likely to feel disappointment. Great anecdotes around the edges of the 1960s and 1970s pursuit of an alternative Hollywood. Weak sauce concerning the totality of the titular subject. Buy The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story here.
Watching:
