Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline ...

In addition to discussing his 1983 S.E. Hinton adaptation, Coppola also chatted about the work of Jacques Tati and, one of his former educators, Dorothy Arzner. “More than a masterpiece because ...

Francis Ford Coppola was warned he'd never walk again after contracting polio. The 85-year-old director was stricken by the virus as a child and recalled feeling "frightened" for the other kids on ...

Francis Ford Coppola, the Oscar-winning director behind The Godfather trilogy, has shared vivid recollections of his battle with polio, a disease that nearly left him permanently paralyzed as a child.

Coppola was saved by his father’s unwillingness to accept the diagnosis. Carmine Coppola was a composer who won Oscar scoring ...

Whitney Cummings has recounted the “humiliating” experience of failing an audition for Francis Ford Coppola’s divisive recent film Megalopolis, only to be gifted a signed book and a bottle ...

Coppola is a 2024 Kennedy Center honoree. This is FRESH AIR. Francis Ford Coppola also is a Kennedy Center Honoree for 2024. We're going to listen to the story he told Terry Gross in 2016 about ...

Famed director — and polio survivor — Francis Ford Coppola is urging new Trump administration public health picks be cautious about vaccine skepticism. The 75-year-old filmmaker recently ...

And Francis Ford Coppola told us in 2016 the story of casting Marlon Brando in The Godfather. And film critic Justin Chang reviews two new movies: The Brutalist and Nickel Boys . Fresh Air ...

Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new film “Megalopolis,” Coppola, who was diagnosed ...