A Celebration of Eleanor Coppola, featuring Sofia Coppola

Eleanor Coppola (1936 – 2024) was a conceptual artist and documentary filmmaker. She met her husband, Francis Coppola, in 1962, when she worked as Assistant Art Director on his first feature. Dementia 13 . Eleanor went on to make several behind-the-scenes documentaries for films directed by her family. Her books include Notes: On the making of Apocalypse Now and Notes on A Life . At the age of 80, Eleanor directed her first feature film, Paris Can Wait . Eleanor Coppola’s final memoir, Two of Me: Notes on Loving and Leaving, was published posthumously in November of 2025. On December 5, 2025, Eleanor Coppola’s daughter, director Sofia Coppola, came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to read from and discuss her mother’s work. She was joined by two friends of Eleanor’s who edited her memoir, radio producer Davia Nelson and writer Vendela Vida.

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This episode is 49:20 long.

This episode was published on Jan 18, 2026.

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