Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is one of the most respected and acclaimed American directors of all time — here's every movie he made, ranked from worst to best. With a career spanning five decades, Coppola has made a number of iconic films. The Italian-American filmmaker is known for his epic, stylistically ambitious projects that often went over budget.
Francis Ford Coppola is, without a doubt, one of the most significant filmmakers of the New Hollywood era, also known as the American New Wave. New Hollywood filmmakers include the likes of George Lucas, Brian De Palma, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Stanley Kubrick. These directors opened up a whole new way of making movies, emerging out of '60s counter-culture with such films as Easy Rider, Bonnie & Clyde, The Graduate, The Deer Hunter,and Taxi Driver. However, the era would end with the massive commercial failure of films like Michal Cimino's Heaven's Gate, and Coppola's own One From The Heart.
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The films of Francis Ford Coppola suffered a steady decline in popularity since his peak in the 1970s. However, subsequent decades of his filmography are still full of classics. Even his most recent, low-budget, experimental films maintain a strong cult following.
Jack, released in 1996, is certainly one of Francis Ford Coppola's most baffling films. A strange blend of the 1988 film, Big (starring Tom Hanks) and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Jack tells the story of Jack Powell, a boy who ages at four times the rate of normal children. Robin Williams plays the ten-year-old in the body of a 40-year-old, and the result is somewhat unsettling. The film is a tonal mess that
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