Seattle Times
Francis Ford Coppola, at 70, is back where he started. The legendary filmmaker has watched his career rise and fall over the past four decades, from the awards and acclaim for “The Godfather” to the disappointment of “One from the Heart,” to the long eight years following his troubled last studio project, 1997’s “The Rainmaker.” So, during that fallow period, he looked back to his early years. “As a younger person, I wanted to make films that I would write from original stories, subject matters that I was interested in or that I thought I could learn from,” he said, in town last week to present a new film at the Seattle International Film Festival.