Eleanor Coppola: Notes on a Life
The Kitchen Sisters Present
The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On April 12, 2024, Eleanor Coppola, artist, filmmaker, mother and wife of director Francis Ford Coppola, died at her home in the Napa Valley surrounded by family. She was 87 years old and had lived a most remarkable life.
Shortly before her death, Eleanor had completed her third memoir. In it she wrote:
“I appreciate how my unexpected life has stretched and pulled me in so many extraordinary ways and taken me in a multitude of directions beyond my wildest imaginings.”
On May 6, 2008, on the occasion of the release of her second memoir, Notes on a Life, Eleanor and Davia sat down together at The Commonwealth Club of California and had this conversation before a live audience.
Our thanks to The Commonwealth Club of California for sharing this 2008 recording. This conversation was part of their Good Lit Series, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation.
The Kitchen Sisters' San Francisco studio is located in Francis and Eleanor's Zoetrope building in North Beach. Ellie has been a part of our lives since the day we came here some three decades ago. Our love goes to the many generations of the Coppola family.
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| 0:54.8 | On April 12, |
| 0:57.8 | on the |
| 0:58.0 | on April 12, 2024, Eleanor Coppola, artist, filmmaker, mother and wife of director |
| 1:09.4 | Francis Ford Coppola, died at her home in the Napa Valley, surrounded by family. |
| 1:15.9 | She was 87 years old and had lived a most remarkable life. |
| 1:21.2 | Shortly before her death, Eleanor had completed her third memoir. |
| 1:25.0 | In it, she wrote, |
| 1:27.0 | I appreciate how my unexpected life has stretched and pulled me in so many extraordinary ways |
| 1:32.0 | and taken me in a multitude of directions |
| 1:35.0 | beyond my wildest imaginings. |
| 1:38.6 | On May 6, 2008, on the occasion of the release of her second memoir, Notes on a Life. |
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