Description: From one of the masters of twentieth-century cinema, an indispensable and entertaining guide to a visionary new form of moviemaking that can be appreciated by the avid film buff and general movie lover alike.
Brief description: Francis Ford Coppola, the Academy Award-winning director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, is creating a four-part "live cinema" movie based on his own family's multigenerational history. He lives in San Francisco.
Review Quotes: This is a gold mine of a book, intensely personal, and a rocket ride to the potential future of cinema/theater/television. It is simultaneously an intimate confessional and a magic key to the storehouse of Coppola's hard-won sixty years of wisdom about writing, directing, actors, rehearsals, and groundbreaking technique, and his visionary hopes for the cinematic language.--Walter Murch