Eleanor Coppola, filmmaker and companion of Francis Ford Coppola, dies at 87
Cairo: Hani Kamal El-Din
Director Eleanor Coppola, who directed the documentary on the making of the movie Apocalypse Now of Francis Ford Coppola, her husband, died Friday April 12 at the age of 87, her family announced. The filmmaker is died surrounded by her family at her home in Rutherford, California, her relatives said in a statement sent to the American agency Associated Press.
In the hearts of darkness : the apocalypse of a director (Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,1991) is the story of a chaotic 238-day shoot in the Philippines, during which one of the members of the construction team died, recalls Associated Press. Comedian Martin Sheen also had a heart attack and the sets were destroyed by a typhoon.
This exceptional document, about an extraordinary cinematic experience, is nevertheless the work of chance. “I made a few small art films in the early 70s, explained Eleanor Coppola to Deadline in 2017 reports Variety. “But when I received this camera in the Philippines, I was just fascinated by looking through the viewfinder. I really reacted to that”. It was from around sixty hours of filming that she made the film which won an Emmy (the American television awards) in 1992, more than a decade after the release ofApocalypse Now (1979).
