Director's Chair #13 -- Day Three

The LAMBs in the Director's ChairThe LAMBs in the Director's Chair
Event #13 starring
Francis Ford Coppola
January 11th to 13th, 2011

Film director Roger Corman can be attributed with offering Francis Ford Coppola with an extremely helpful boost back in the early 1960s. Coppola was working as a production assistant for Corman when they were shooting the film The Young Racers (1963). During the course of the production Coppola was able to borrow some of the cast, crew, and production equipment during the down time of the shooting schedule. The side project was a feature length screenplay that Coppola had written titled Dementia 13 and he was able to film the movie with the borrowed equipment and personnel. The helpful “leg up” from Corman allowed Coppola to gain a notable amount of real world experience in the film industry, but it did not place him on the map as an immediate icon in filmmaking. It was not until a few years later when he scored the job of adapting a couple of published books into a military biography-film that scored him award-winning recognition at the Oscars. The film is Patton (1970) and he now shares his Oscar award with fellow writer Edmund North. This opened up the floodgates for him to move into big name projects that he has directed such as The Godfather and The Conversation.

Career Editorial and Overview

Reviews for Apocalypse Now (1979).

Review for New York Stories (1989).

Reviews for Dementia 13 (1963).

Reviews for The Godfather franchise.
A large amount of appreciation goes out toward the blog writers who have participated in this ongoing series. It is always exciting to see everyone contributing to a collective list of reviews and editorials that focus upon the career of a single director. In the next couple of weeks there will be an announcement of the director who will be the focus of the fourteenth installment of the Director's Chair series, so make sure to stay tuned to the LAMBs site.
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