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
Sofia Coppola films. The best known of these is her appearance in "The Godfather" as the infant Michael Francis Rizzi, in the baptism scene. Coppola returned to her father's trilogy in both the second and third "Godfather" films, playing an immigrant child in "The Godfather Part II" and Michael Corleone's daughter in "The Godfather Part III", after the originally cast actress, Winona Ryder, discontinued her involvement with the film. Coppola responded to a question about her role in "The Godfather Part III" in a 2013 interview:Let's see. Did I not wanna do it? Um. I was game. I was trying different things.