For me, this is a dream come true," said Frances Ford Coppola, surveying the audience that had come to see his passion ...

Francis Ford Coppola visits the Criterion Closet, selecting his own film, 'Rumble Fish,' as well as the work of many ...

Francis Ford Coppola was warned that he might never walk again after he contracted polio as a child. The 85-year-old director ...

Francis Ford Coppola is issuing a dire warning on polio amid concerns about the future of vaccines. The Kennedy Center honoree recalled his experience with the disease after recent reports ...

Forever linked, Francis Ford Coppola nearly didn't get to see out his Magnus Opus, 'The Godfather' until one scene saved him from being fired.

Whitney Cummings spent three days memorizing lines only to be asked to improvise an Australian-accented confrontation with an ...

Coppola is a 2024 Kennedy Center honoree. This is FRESH AIR. Francis Ford Coppola also is a Kennedy Center Honoree for 2024. We're going to listen to the story he told Terry Gross in 2016 about ...

Francis Ford Coppola, the Oscar-winning director behind The Godfather trilogy, has shared vivid recollections of his battle with polio, a disease that nearly left him permanently paralyzed as a child.

And Francis Ford Coppola told us in 2016 the story of casting Marlon Brando in The Godfather. And film critic Justin Chang reviews two new movies: The Brutalist and Nickel Boys . Fresh Air ...