Francis Ford Coppola, the CONVERSATION 1974, (113 Min.)
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October 14, 2008 (XVII:8) Francis Ford Coppola, THE CONVERSATION 1974, (113 min.) Produced, directed and written by Francis Ford Coppola Original Music by David Shire Cinematography by Bill Butler Film Editing by Richard Chew Sound editing by Walter Murch Gene Hackman... Harry Caul John Cazale... Stan Allen Garfield... William P. 'Bernie' Moran Frederic Forrest... Mark Cindy Williams... Ann Teri Garr... Amy Fredericks Harrison Ford... Martin Stett Robert Duvall... The Director FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA (7 April 1939, Detroit, Michigan) has directed 32 films, among them Youth Without Youth (2007), John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), The Godfather: Part III (1990), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), Gardens of Stone (1987), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), The Cotton Club (1984), Rumble Fish (1983), The Outsiders Apocalypse Now (1979), and won an unprecedented double Oscars (1983), One from the Heart (1982), Apocalypse Now (1979), The for sound and film editing for his work on The English Patient Conversation (1974), The Godfather (1972), The Rain People (1996). Most recently he helped reconstruct Touch of Evil to Orson (1969), and Dementia 13 (1963). He received Best Director Oscar Welles original notes, and edited The Talented Mr. Ripley. Mr. nominations for Godfather Part III, Godfather Part II (won), Murch was, along with George Lucas and Francis Coppola, a Apocalypse Now, The Godfather; Best Picture nominations for founding member of northern California cinema. Mr. Murch has Godfather Part III, Godfather Part II (won), Apocalypse Now, The directed—Return to Oz (1985)—and longs to do so again, but as an Conversation, American Graffiti; Best Screenplay nominations for editor and sound man he is one of the few universally Apocalypse Now, Godfather Part II (won), The Conversation, The acknowledged masters in his field. For his work on the film Godfather (won), and Patton (won). Apocolypse Now, Walter coined the term "Sound Designer", and along with colleagues such as Ben Burtt, helped to elevate the art RICHARD CHEW (28 June 1940, Los Angeles, California) won a and impact of film sound to a new level.” (From IMdB) best editing Oscar for Star Wars (1977) and was nominated for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). Some of the other 30 GENE HACKMAN (30 January 1930, San Bernardino, California) films he edited are Mi vida loca (1993), Men Don't Leave (1990), won a best support actor Oscar for Unforgiven (1992) and a best Risky Business (1983), My Favorite Year (1982, When You Comin' actor Oscar for The French Connection (1971). He was nominated Back, Red Ryder? (1979), Goin' South (1978), The Conversation for one other best actor Oscar (Mississippi Burning, 1988) and two (1974) and The Redwoods (1967). best supporting actor Oscars (I Never Sang for my Father 1970 and Bonnie and Clyde 1967). Some of his other 100 film roles have WALTER MURCH (12 July 1943, NYC) “has been editing sound in been in Superman II (2006),The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Hollywood since starting on Francis Ford Coppola's film The Rain Heartbreakers (2001), Under Suspicion (2000), Twilight (1998), People (1969). He edited sound on American Graffiti (1973) and Absolute Power (1997), The Chamber (1996), Get Shorty (1995), The Godfather Part II (1974), won his first Academy Award Crimson Tide (1995), The Quick and the Dead (1995), Wyatt Earp nomination for The Conversation (1974), won his first Oscar for (1994), Geronimo: An American Legend (1993), The Firm (1993), Coppola—The CONVERSATION—2 Company Business (1991), Class Action (1991), Postcards from (2008), Six Days Seven Nights (1998), Air Force One (1997), the Edge (1990), Another Woman (1988), No Way Out (1987), Sabrina (1995), Clear and Present Danger (1994), The Fugitive Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), Hoosiers (1986), (1993), Patriot Games (1992), Presumed Innocent (1990), Indiana Under Fire (1983), Reds (1981), Superman II (1980), Superman Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Working Girl (1988), Frantic (1978), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Night Moves (1975), French (1988), The Mosquito Coast (1986), Indiana Jones and the Temple Connection II (1975), Young Frankenstein (1974), The of Doom (1984), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi Conversation (1974), Scarecrow (1973), The Poseidon Adventure (1983), Blade Runner (1982), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Star (1972), Cisco Pike (1972), Marooned (1969), Downhill Racer Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Apocalypse (1969), and Lilith (1964). He was the first choice to play Mike Now (1979), Star Wars (1977) The Conversation (1974), American Brady on “The Brady Bunch” and Hannibal Lector in Silence of Graffiti (1973), Zabriskie the Lambs (but didn’t) and the sixth choice to play Popeye Doyle Point (1970) and Dead in The French Connection (and did). Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966). JOHN CAZALE (12 August 1935, Boston, Massachusetts—12 March 1978, New York, New York, bone cancer) appeared in only Francis Ford Coppola, 7 films: The Deer Hunter (1978), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The from World Film Directors Godfather: Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), The V. II. Ed. John Wakeman. Godfather (1972) and The American Way (1962). H.H. Wilson Co. NY 1988 ALLEN GARFIELD (Allen Goorwitz, 22 November 1939, Newark, American director, New Jersey) has appeared in 115 films and tv episodes, among scenarist and producer, them White Boy (2002), "The West Wing," The Ninth Gate (1999), born in Detroit, Michigan, "Dharma & Greg," Diabolique (1996), "Chicago Hope," "Law & second of the three children Order," Dick Tracy (1990), "Matlock," Beverly Hills Cop II of Italian-American (1987), Desert Bloom (1986), The Cotton Club (1984), The Black parents. .Francis Coppola Stallion Returns (1983), "Taxi," One from the Heart (1982), The grew up in Queens, New York. He remembers his childhood as Stunt Man (1980), The Brink's Job (1978), "Serpico," Mother, Jugs “very warm, very tempestuous, full of controversy and a lot of & Speed (1976), Gable and Lombard (1976), Nashville (1975), passion and shouting. My father, who is an enormously talented "Gunsmoke," The Conversation (1974), "Ironside." "Kojak," man, was the focus of all our lives. Our lives centered on what Slither (1973), "The Bob Newhart Show," The Candidate (1972), we all felt was the tragedy of his career.” (That tragedy has now "Bonanza," Bananas (1971), Taking Off (1971), “The Mod Squad," been resolved by Francis Coppola himself, who used his father’s Putney Swope (1969), Greetings (1968) and Orgy Girls '69 (1968). music in The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, and the restored Napoleon.) FREDERIC FORREST (23 December 1936, Waxahachie, Texas) has Talent in the family was not confined to the father. been in 83 films, 4 of them directed by Francis Ford Coppola: Coppola’s mother, the former Italia Penino, at one time acted in Apocalypse Now (1979, The Conversation (1974), One from the films. His older brother August is a writer and a professor of Heart (1982) and Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988). , He literature. His younger sister Talia Shire, who appears in both received a best support actor nomination for The Rose 1979). Godfather films, has become well known for her performances in Rocky and Old Boyfriends, and his nephew, Nicholas Cage, has CINDY WILLIAMS (22 August 1947, Van Nuys, California) has starred in several recent films, Coppola’s Rumblefish and Peggy appeared in 68 films and tv series. She is probably best known for Sue Got Married among them. As a small boy Francis Ford the 158 episodes of "Laverne & Shirley" (1976-1982). She was Coppola (he dropped his middle name in 1977) seemed the least also in American Graffiti (1973) and Drive, He Said (1971). promising member of this ambitious family, “funny-looking, not good at school, nearsighted.” A polio attack when he was nine kept TERI GARR (11 December 1947, Lakewood, Ohio) was nominated him in bed for a year—a miserable period in which he played with for a best supporting actress Oscar for Tootsie (1982). Some of her puppets, devoured television, and “got immersed in a fantasy other 141 appearances were in God Out the Window (2007), world.”.... Expired (2007), "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," Life Coppola made his first movies at the age of ten with his Without Dick (2002), Dick (1999), "ER," Changing Habits (1997), father’s 8mm camera and tape recorder. In high school his interests "Frasier," Prêt-à-Porter (1994), Dumb & Dumber (1994), broadened to include writing, music, cinema, and the theatre.About "Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man," "Dream On," "Tales from the time he graduated from Great Neck High School, Long Island, the Crypt," Mr. Mom (1983), The Black Stallion Returns (1983), he discovered the films of Eisenstein. Coppola became so ardent a The Sting II (1983), One from the Heart (1982), Honky Tonk disciple that, though he was “really dying to make a film,” he Freeway (1981), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Oh, chose to seek a rounded theatrical education first “because God! (1977), Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood Eisenstein had started like that.” In 1956 he entered Hofstra (1976), "Maude," "McCloud," Young Frankenstein (1974), College (now University) on a drama scholarship and almost "M*A*S*H," "Room 222," "Mayberry R.F.D.," "Star Trek," immediately made a stir with an anti-administration story in a "Batman," and A Swingin' Affair (1963). student magazine. In this and later student pieces his biographer Robert K. Johnson finds early evidence of Coppola’s predilection HARRISON FORD (13 July 1942, Chicago, Illinois) received a best for “fast-paced, episodic structure,”his interest in technology, his actor Oscar nomination for Witness (1985). Some of his other 50 fascination with determined women, and his natural films are Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull rebelliousness.” Coppola—THE CONVERSATION—3 At Hofstra, eager to master every aspect of the theatre, the most likable of Coppola’s films—funny, fast-paced, and often Coppola acted in student productions, worked on lighting and stage perceptive and original in its characterization.