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	Francis Ford Coppola has been making movies for more than 30 years, and wines at his Niebaum-Coppola Estate Winery (now known as the Rubicon estate) in the Napa Valley for almost 20.
	Variety's Nick Vivarelli reports that while his daughter Sofia has been enjoying/suffering through the mixed reception Marie Antoinette has been getting at Cannes, Francis Ford Coppola has wrapped production on his first film since 1997's The Rainmaker. The film sounds intriguing, and it's bound to be a far cry from John Grisham studio fare -- the 1930s period drama about "an academic forced to become a fugitive" boasts a $5 million budget, a mostly Romanian crew, and the great German actor Bruno Ganz. As a still-awestruck fan of Coppola's early- and mid-career work, I can't wait to see how this turns out, especially after having wacthed the maestro make a passionate defense of independent cinema when he was feted at the Film Society of Lincoln Center a few years back.
	Robert Duvall and Francis Ford Coppola on location for the original Apocalypse Now, re-released as Apocalypse Now Redux in 2001.   See also Francis Ford Coppola profile.