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Eleanor Coppola, the documentarian, writer, and matriarch who gained an Emmy for the generating-of doc Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, has died although surrounded by family at dwelling in Rutherford, California. She was 87. Coppola’s household verified the news to the Associated Press. No induce of demise was presented. In accordance to her family members, she experienced just lately completed her third memoir. In the manuscript, she reflected, “I enjoy how my unpredicted life has stretched and pulled me in so several remarkable strategies and taken me in a multitude of instructions over and above my wildest imaginings.”
Born Eleanor Jessie Neil, she satisfied Francis Ford Coppola although working as an assistant artwork director on his directorial debut, the horror movie Dementia 13. She received pregnant inside a number of months of dating, and the pair had been married in Las Vegas in 1963. With each other, the Coppolas lifted a single of the most nicely-known filmmaking family members in Hollywood. Their 3 youngsters — the late producer and actor Gian-Carlo Coppola, Oscar-nominated author and director Roman Coppola, and Oscar-profitable writer and director Sofia Coppola — grew up on the sets of their father’s films and finally joined the film business. (Sofia Coppola dedicated her the latest Priscilla Presley biopic, Priscilla, to her mother.)
All over her a long time-lengthy occupation, Eleanor documented the creation of many of her spouse and children’s initiatives, together with the trials of Apocalypse Now in Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. At age 80, she directed her very first narrative characteristic, the 2016 Diane Lane rom-com Paris Can Wait around. She later followed that up with 2020’s Love Is Adore Is Adore.
