| Roman Coppola | |
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| Born | April 22, 1965 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
Roman Coppola (born 22 April 1965) is an American film director and music video director.
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Early life
Coppola was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, the son of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and 5-time Academy Award winning director, producer, and writer Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola was born in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine while his father was in Paris writing the screenplay of Is Paris Burning?. He attended New York University's film school, the Tisch School of the Arts.
Career
Coppola had a small role as one of the sons of Tom Hagen during the funeral scene in The Godfather. He also played Santino Corleone as a young boy in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II. He oversaw the in-camera visual effects for his father's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Coppola's feature-film debut, CQ premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.[1] He founded the production company The Directors Bureau and directed all the music videos for songs of The Strokes' albums Is This It and "12:51" for Room on Fire. Coppola has directed clips for artists including Moby, The Presidents of the United States of America, Mansun, Ween, Green Day, Fatboy Slim, Phoenix, mellow, Daft Punk, Matthew Sweet, Supergrass, The Vines, God Lives Underwater, Wyclef Jean, Arctic Monkeys, and Sebastien Tellier. His music video for Phoenix's "Funky Squaredance" was invited into permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art. He is an accomplished television commercial director as well.
He had a great deal of work in other production realms, including second unit direction for such films as Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jack, The Rainmaker (all three directed by his father), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited (both films by Wes Anderson; Darjeeling was co-written by Coppola) and his sister Sofia's The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette. He filmed several sequences for Love Actually.
See also
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: CQ". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1100062/year/2001.html. Retrieved 2009-10-24.
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