The adventure is.” Part of the pain in the failures is that, like his successes, Coppola’s films cost a fortune, and money flows freely through his fingers. “Artistic perfection has never been integral to Coppola’s colossal experiment,” writes the author. “As no other filmmaker does,” writes veteran film biographer Wasson, “Coppola lives in his stories, changing them as they change him, riding round an endless loop of experience and creation”-until, usually reluctantly, letting go of them, only to watch some crash and burn. 1939) and his production company, American Zoetrope. A vivid biography of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (b.
