The Beguiled

Advertisements Sofia Coppola’s take on Thomas Cullinan’s novel The Beguiled (or The Painted Devil)—and by association Don Siegel’s 1971 film adaptation—is a dusky, sensual and twisted sort of fairytale. Coppola’s version is vastly different tonally, as she attempts to share the same…

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The Best ‘Missed Moments’ in Lost in Translation

Advertisements Lost in Translation, hypnotically written and directed by Sofia Coppola, manages to still be one of the most relevant and honest films of this century, even fifteen years later. What more can be said of Coppola’s love masterpiece that hasn’t been…

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The Bling Ring

Advertisements Sofia Coppola’s teenaged concoction dealing with the infamous Bling Ring robberies that took place in Calabasas, California is a candy-coloured, ridiculous mixture of young dumbass-ery mixed with high stakes crime. Its surrealism even extends to a Paris Hilton cameo. As camera…

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