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Thursday, March 5 7 PM. Francis Ford Coppola. United States, 1972. 4K Digital Restoration. BAMPFA Student Committee Pick! A chronicle of the life and times of an Italian American mafia family becomes a shadow history of the American dream in Coppola’s masterpiece, widely acclaimed as one of the best American films ever made.
American Zoetrope has helped to launch the careers of some of today's best-known actors and filmmakers. Here are some of the people whose careers began in, or were given an early boost by, American Zoetrope productions:
A Brief History of American Zoetrope. Francis Ford Coppola decided he would name his future studio "Zoetrope" after receiving a gift of zoetropes from Mogen Scott-Hansen, founder of a studio called Lanterna Film and owner of a famous collection of early motion picture making equipment. While touring Europe, Coppola was introduced to alternative ...
Coppola and American Zoetrope acquired the screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, a coming-of-age account of Abbott growing up with her single father — widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott — amid the AIDS epidemic in 1970s and 1980s San Francisco.
The 2024 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition will open for submissions on June 1. To receive updates by email, please write us at contests@zoetrope.com. Thanks again, and all good wishes for your writing! Zoetrope: a community of artists since 1998.
Oct 26, 2020 · American Zoetrope burst onto the scene with George Lucas' THX 1138 and it did not go well. In order to make the money back, they lost on that film, Coppola and Zoetrope took The Godfather. It was a real happy accident he got the gig. In an interview between Coppola and The Rumpus, he talks about how he grew into The Godfather, "In my earlier ...
May 11, 2021 · The legacy of American Zoetrope does not lie in the studio’s success, but rather, in its failure. The collapse of American Zoetrope as an alternative to traditional Hollywood filmmaking substantially changed the direction of its founders, the results of which would redefine the movie industry and contribute to the blockbuster mentality that ...
