Sam Wasson

Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson’s telling, it becomes the defining story of its most colorful characters. Here is […]

The definitive account of the legendary Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long dream to reinvent American film-making, if not the entire world. ‘Supremely entertaining.’ New York Times ‘Mouth-watering . . . Sizzingly vivid and compulsive.’ Daily Telegraph Acclaimed writer Sam Wasson weaves together an extraordinary portrait of Coppola, having conducted hundreds of interviews with the director and those who […]