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Sofia Coppola

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Beauty and the rock'n'roll beast: Sofia Coppola's Priscilla

Beauty and the rock'n'roll beast: Sofia Coppola's Priscilla

A double-feature of Priscilla and Spencer might be a fascinating study. Or it might seem merely redundant.

Catching Up With The Bling Ring

Catching Up With The Bling Ring

When those that qualify as the 2% won't rest until they've stolen their way into the 1% — The Bling Ring is a thoughtful and prophetic portrait of a generation obsessed with becoming media gods, exploiting social justice slogans in service of their own social-media avatars.

The Beguiled (2017)

The Beguiled (2017)

Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock — the 1975 film that set the tonal template for Sofia Coppola's films — is more powerfully present here than in any of her previous work, even The Virgin Suicides. Again, we have women and girls in isolation, imprisoned in a vocabulary

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"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche."

"Let them eat cake." That's a quote commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette, but a quick Google search will teach you that this isn't really the truth. We're not sure who said it. But we can be sure that Roger Ebert took a

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Kurt Cobain Rises Again

Tidbits: * If you missed my headline-scan at CT Reel News this week... it's not too late. There's news about Hobbits invading Boston, children entering Narnia, Bryan Singer jumping on Superman, Malaysians attending The Passion, Stephen Baldwin entering the ministry, Ralph Fiennes stalking Harry Potter, Kevin Smith