Francis Ford Coppola up with fellow Oscar-winning directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen for an anthology film called "New York Stories". Coppola directed the "Life Without Zoë" segment, starring his sister Talia Shire and also co-wrote the film with his daughter Sofia Coppola. "Life Without Zoë" was mostly panned by critics and was generally considered the segment that brought the film's overall quality down. Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote a particularly scathing review, stating that "It's impossible to know what Francis Coppola's "Life Without Zoë" is. Co-written with his daughter Sofia, the film is a mystifying embarrassment; it's by far the
The Rain People one of Coppola's five best films, calling it "hypnotic". The Rain People The Rain People is a 1969 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Alongside Shirley Knight, leading players are James Caan and Robert Duvall, both of whom would later work with Coppola in "The Godfather". Future film director and Coppola friend George Lucas worked as an aide on this film, and made a short making-of documentary film, "Filmmaker", about it. The film also won the Golden Shell at the 1969 San Sebastian Film Festival. The film received mixed initial reviews, but modern reception is more often positive. The current