Sofia Coppola
Movie Review: Priscilla
Sofia Coppola’s "Priscilla" may ultimately be the best and is certainly the latest great film from a talented and gifted filmmaker.
Movie Review: The Beguiled
The Beguiled is as surprising and thought-provoking a film as an exquisitely pruned rose bush flourishing atop a bitter iceberg. It’s elegant. It’s melodramatic. It’s icy, blunt, and deeply silent. But with that, it’s also strangely welcoming. The movie begins three years into the American Civil War, when we are invited into the gates of the sunlit, musty Farnsworth Seminary to spectate as seven w...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Bling Ring
If Harmony Korine hadn’t already made the year’s boldest statement on the amoral, thrill-seeking hedonism of 21st-century adolescence in his sensory-assaulting, taboo-teasing, and surprisingly thoughtful Spring Breakers, then Sofia Coppola’s take on the insta-infamy of “The Bling Ring” gang – a band of privileged young women who started burglarizing celebrities in the Hollywood Hills just a handfu...[Read More]