San Sebastian Film Festival ::

Francis Ford Coppola

Apocalypse Now Redux is a new cut, with added sequences, of Apocalypse Now. Captain Willard is sent on special mission to eliminate Colonel Kurtz, an ex-green beret imposing his tyranny on a community of mountain natives on the Cambodian border. The closer he gets to his objective, the more men Willard loses as he descends into the bowels of hell.

One from the Heart

Francis Ford Coppola

Having lived together for five years, Hank and Frannie love each other dearly: she gives him two tickets for Bora Bora and he gives her the deeds of the house. But an argument leads to their separation. Frannie meets Ray, a club pianist, while Hank goes out with a circus artist called Leila. Unable to live without Frannie, Hank tracks her down in a motel, forcing her to come ho...

Having lived together for five years, Hank and Frannie love each other dearly: she gives him two tickets for Bora Bora and he gives her the deeds of the house. But an argument leads to their separation. Frannie meets Ray, a club pianist, while Hank goes out with a circus artist called Leila. Unable to live without Frannie, Hank tracks her down in a motel, forcing her to come home with him, and asking her to move hack in with him. Refusing, Frannie grabs the tickets for Bora Bora with the intention of leaving with Ray. Although Hank sees them boarding at the airport, Frannie still hesitates as to which of her two suitors she prefers.

Rumble Fish

Francis Ford Coppola

Fighting on a piece of open ground with the leader of another youth gang, Biff, Rusty James has just been stabbed when his elder brother, better known as The Motorcycle Boy, appears on the scene in time to save him from a worse fate by driving his bike into Biff. On another occasion, when Rusty and his friends are assaulted in a dark lane, The Motorcycle Boy once again appears ...

Fighting on a piece of open ground with the leader of another youth gang, Biff, Rusty James has just been stabbed when his elder brother, better known as The Motorcycle Boy, appears on the scene in time to save him from a worse fate by driving his bike into Biff. On another occasion, when Rusty and his friends are assaulted in a dark lane, The Motorcycle Boy once again appears in the nick of time. But a cop has it in for him and closely follows his every move. Rumble Fish won the FIPRESCI Award at the San Sebastian Festival in 1984.

The Conversation

Francis Ford Coppola

Reputed sound engineer Harry Caul has been hired to surrepticiously record a young couple's conversation. About to deliver the material to his contracters, not only doesn't he do so due to an argument over the amount of his payment, but an employee warns him that it's a dangerous job. Returning to his laboratory, he listens to the tapes, realising that things seem slightly more...

Reputed sound engineer Harry Caul has been hired to surrepticiously record a young couple's conversation. About to deliver the material to his contracters, not only doesn't he do so due to an argument over the amount of his payment, but an employee warns him that it's a dangerous job. Returning to his laboratory, he listens to the tapes, realising that things seem slightly more shady than he had initially thought. That night after a party, he sleeps with a girl, only to discover the following morning that both girl and tapes have disappeared and that they are now in the hands of the mysterious men from the office.

The Cotton Club

Francis Ford Coppola

New York, the late 20s. The Cotton Club is a Harlem joint in which black people play for an exclusively white audience. The only exception is Dixie Dwyer, a white trumpeter who plays with the band. Dixie saves the life of the gangster Dutch Schultz, who proposes that Dixie take care of his girlfriend, Vera. While mutually attracted to one another, they realise that their relati...

New York, the late 20s. The Cotton Club is a Harlem joint in which black people play for an exclusively white audience. The only exception is Dixie Dwyer, a white trumpeter who plays with the band. Dixie saves the life of the gangster Dutch Schultz, who proposes that Dixie take care of his girlfriend, Vera. While mutually attracted to one another, they realise that their relationship has to be kept under cover, away from the eyes of Dutch's vigilant thugs.

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola

Amid the festivities in celebration of his daughter Connie's wedding, Don Vito Corleone attends to the people who file through his office in search of protection and favours. Also present are his other children, Sonny, Fredo and Michael. Don Vito wants no part in the intentions of the drug-dealing Sollozzo to start selling drugs all over New York, causing a clan war in which Co...

Amid the festivities in celebration of his daughter Connie's wedding, Don Vito Corleone attends to the people who file through his office in search of protection and favours. Also present are his other children, Sonny, Fredo and Michael. Don Vito wants no part in the intentions of the drug-dealing Sollozzo to start selling drugs all over New York, causing a clan war in which Corleone himself is injured. Michael, who until then had wanted no involvement in the family business, not only finds himself obliged to become concerned in order to save his father's life, but ends up occupying the position as new head of the family.

The Godfather Part II

Francis Ford Coppola

The action swiftly swings from one period to another, from the early years of the 20th century to the late 50s, from Manhattan to Cuba. It describes the rise of the Corleone family headed by Don Vito, a man who had arrived to the States as a child after having been orphaned when his father was murdered by a local Mafia boss, and the breakup of the clan when his son Michael take...

The action swiftly swings from one period to another, from the early years of the 20th century to the late 50s, from Manhattan to Cuba. It describes the rise of the Corleone family headed by Don Vito, a man who had arrived to the States as a child after having been orphaned when his father was murdered by a local Mafia boss, and the breakup of the clan when his son Michael takes the reins.

The Godfather Part III

Francis Ford Coppola

In 1979, Michael Corleone celebrates his having received a medal from a religious order, by throwing a party at which he runs back into his ex-wife Kay, dances with his daughter Mary, and receives an offer of work from his dead brother Sonny's illegal offspring, Vincent. An archbishop proposes that Michael participate in a real estate agency run by the Vatican, although to do s...

In 1979, Michael Corleone celebrates his having received a medal from a religious order, by throwing a party at which he runs back into his ex-wife Kay, dances with his daughter Mary, and receives an offer of work from his dead brother Sonny's illegal offspring, Vincent. An archbishop proposes that Michael participate in a real estate agency run by the Vatican, although to do so, the seriously ailing Pope would have to provide signed permission. Vincent kills Joey Zasa, the leader of a rival gang, revealing to Michael his potential as successor to the position as head of the family.

The Rain People

Francis Ford Coppola

Natalie announces her pregnancy and need for a break over the phone to her husband from a petrol station. Picking up Jimmie, a hitch-hiker with serious brain injuries caused by a sporting accident which has left him with the mentality of a child, she takes him to the house of Ellen, an old girlfriend, who wants nothing to do with him. Natalie decides to take him with her, marki...

Natalie announces her pregnancy and need for a break over the phone to her husband from a petrol station. Picking up Jimmie, a hitch-hiker with serious brain injuries caused by a sporting accident which has left him with the mentality of a child, she takes him to the house of Ellen, an old girlfriend, who wants nothing to do with him. Natalie decides to take him with her, marking the start of an eventful voyage through numerous American states towards tragedy.