Headline : Remembering documentary filmmaker Eleanor Coppola

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Coppola, who died April 12, was an assistant art director on the 1963 film Dementia 13 when she met, and soon married, its director, Francis Ford Coppola. Originally broadcast in 1992.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University. Eleanor Coppola, who died last Friday at age 87, became a filmmaker by request. Her husband, Francis Ford Coppola, who had become a major Hollywood figure thanks to his mega-successful "Godfather" movies, asked her to chronicle the making of his new movie "Apocalypse Now," not because it was going so smoothly, but because it wasn't. The result was the 1991 Showtime documentary "Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," a hauntingly honest look at a film and filmmaker lost in the jungle, just like the story's protagonist. There were many times Francis Coppola was sure he could not make a movie out of his increasingly incoherent footage.

(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE")

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA: What I have to admit is that I don't know what I'm doing.

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