FILE - American director Francis Ford Coppola , center, carries his daughter Sofia, 8, through the crowd after the formal presentation of the U.S. film “Apolalypse Now”, at the Cannes International Film Festival in France on May 19, 1979. His son Gian Carlo, 15, and his wife Ellie are left. Coppola is back at Cannes with his latest film “Megalopolis.” FILE - Film director Francis Ford Coppola appears with his wife Ellie at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 1979.
Gilles Jacob, delegate general of Cannes, traveled to visit Coppola, hoping he could coax him into returning to the festival where the director’s “The Conversation” had won the Palme d’Or in 1974. In his book, “Citizen Cannes: The Man Behind the Cannes Film Festival,” Jacob recounted finding Coppola in the editing suite “beset by financial woes and struggling with 20 miles of film.”
But Coppola wasn’t so sure. The film was unfinished, didn’t have credits yet and he still was unsure about the ending. But after some back-and-forth and debate about whether “Apocalypse Now” would screen in or out of competition, it was decided: It would screen as a “work in progress” — in competition.
At the press conference, Coppola was defensive about the bad press the film received and the attention given to its budget.
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