Any list of the greatest filmmakers of all time would be incomplete without the inclusion of Francis Ford Coppola.
The incredible director behind such all-time classics as The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, The Rainmaker, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Peggy Sue Got Married is a creative force like no other that changed the industry in countless ways.
It’s often said that there is a little bit of madness that comes with any work of genius, and that description certainly applies to many of Coppola’s projects.
Many of his films, some of which are considered now to be classics, suffered through notoriously troubled productions.
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