Kirsten Dunst started her career super early, as a child model, at just the age of three. Being in the industry from such a young age gave her a head start.
Despite her rising fame, the Point Pleasant native also faced challenges because of the roles that demanded intimate scenes. In the late 1990’s, she was offered a role that required her to kiss several male co-stars on a house roof.
Kirsten Dunst played Mary Jane in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy
The movie is none other than The Virgin Suicides — a novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, later adapted into a film by Sofia Coppola. It tells the story of the Lisbon sisters, five teenage girls living in suburban America in the 1970s.
Their lives are shrouded in mystery and tragedy, as they face repression, longing, and ultimately, death. But a clever trick by director Coppola enabled Dunst to maintain her...
Despite her rising fame, the Point Pleasant native also faced challenges because of the roles that demanded intimate scenes. In the late 1990’s, she was offered a role that required her to kiss several male co-stars on a house roof.
Kirsten Dunst played Mary Jane in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy
The movie is none other than The Virgin Suicides — a novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, later adapted into a film by Sofia Coppola. It tells the story of the Lisbon sisters, five teenage girls living in suburban America in the 1970s.
Their lives are shrouded in mystery and tragedy, as they face repression, longing, and ultimately, death. But a clever trick by director Coppola enabled Dunst to maintain her...
- 4/4/2024
- by Shreya Jha
- FandomWire
Chris Evans’ actress-wife Alba Baptista showcased her wedding ring for the first time since marrying the Hollywood star. A few months after tying the knot with the leading man in ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’, the ‘Warrior Nun’ star was pictured wearing the bling on that finger.
On November 26, the actress uploaded on her Instagram page a series of photographs from the GQ Portugal Man of the Year event, which took place in Lisbon one day prior.
In the images, she could be seen showing off a sparkling silver band that came with a huge round-shaped diamond, reports aceshowbiz.com.
The ‘Mrs Harris Goes to Paris’ actress even treated Instagram users to a closer look of the wedding ring. Among the photos in the post was one that captured the her holding a book by author Jeffrey Eugenides titled ‘The Virgin Suicides’ with both of her hands.
Other pictures saw...
On November 26, the actress uploaded on her Instagram page a series of photographs from the GQ Portugal Man of the Year event, which took place in Lisbon one day prior.
In the images, she could be seen showing off a sparkling silver band that came with a huge round-shaped diamond, reports aceshowbiz.com.
The ‘Mrs Harris Goes to Paris’ actress even treated Instagram users to a closer look of the wedding ring. Among the photos in the post was one that captured the her holding a book by author Jeffrey Eugenides titled ‘The Virgin Suicides’ with both of her hands.
Other pictures saw...
- 11/27/2023
- by Agency News Desk
Chris Evans’ actress-wife Alba Baptista showcased her wedding ring for the first time since marrying the Hollywood star. A few months after tying the knot with the leading man in ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’, the ‘Warrior Nun’ star was pictured wearing the bling on that finger.
On November 26, the actress uploaded on her Instagram page a series of photographs from the GQ Portugal Man of the Year event, which took place in Lisbon one day prior.
In the images, she could be seen showing off a sparkling silver band that came with a huge round-shaped diamond, reports aceshowbiz.com.
The ‘Mrs Harris Goes to Paris’ actress even treated Instagram users to a closer look of the wedding ring. Among the photos in the post was one that captured the her holding a book by author Jeffrey Eugenides titled ‘The Virgin Suicides’ with both of her hands.
Other pictures saw...
On November 26, the actress uploaded on her Instagram page a series of photographs from the GQ Portugal Man of the Year event, which took place in Lisbon one day prior.
In the images, she could be seen showing off a sparkling silver band that came with a huge round-shaped diamond, reports aceshowbiz.com.
The ‘Mrs Harris Goes to Paris’ actress even treated Instagram users to a closer look of the wedding ring. Among the photos in the post was one that captured the her holding a book by author Jeffrey Eugenides titled ‘The Virgin Suicides’ with both of her hands.
Other pictures saw...
- 11/27/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
In a suburban neighborhood in the mid-1970s, all five teenage girls in the Lisbon family die by suicide, forever changing the lives of the boys who lived nearby. Sofia Coppola's 1999 film "The Virgin Suicides" is tragic and isn't always easy to watch, but it's a beautiful and eerie dive into the secret lives of teen girls, the reach of grief, and the malleability of memory. The film was Coppola's directorial debut and she wrote the screenplay as well, based on the 1993 novel by Jeffrey Eugenides.
"The Virgin Suicides" has gone through waves of popularity, as it was beloved on the festival circuit only to barely make back its budget at the box office. Later it found cult status on home video, joining the Criterion Collection in 2018. It's a deeply challenging film because the impending deaths of the girls loom over every scene — in a way, we know the...
"The Virgin Suicides" has gone through waves of popularity, as it was beloved on the festival circuit only to barely make back its budget at the box office. Later it found cult status on home video, joining the Criterion Collection in 2018. It's a deeply challenging film because the impending deaths of the girls loom over every scene — in a way, we know the...
- 10/3/2023
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
Tl;Dr:
Priscilla Presley and Elvis Presley first met each other while he was in the U.S. Army stationed in Germany. Priscilla charmed her future husband by keeping their meeting a secret. She later opened up about the marriage in the famous book Elvis and Me.
Elvis Presley‘s relationship with his only wife, Priscilla Presley, had been the source of media attention for decades. Despite this, Elvis loved Priscilla because she was able to keep secrets. Director Sofia Coppola hopes to give the rocker ‘n’ roller‘s wife her dues in the upcoming biopic Priscilla.
Priscilla Presley didn’t tell anyone about the 1st time she met Elvis Presley
During a 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Priscilla said her ability to keep secrets endeared her to the “Can’t Help Falling in Love” singer. She recalled meeting him at his home in Germany while he was in the U.S.
Priscilla Presley and Elvis Presley first met each other while he was in the U.S. Army stationed in Germany. Priscilla charmed her future husband by keeping their meeting a secret. She later opened up about the marriage in the famous book Elvis and Me.
Elvis Presley‘s relationship with his only wife, Priscilla Presley, had been the source of media attention for decades. Despite this, Elvis loved Priscilla because she was able to keep secrets. Director Sofia Coppola hopes to give the rocker ‘n’ roller‘s wife her dues in the upcoming biopic Priscilla.
Priscilla Presley didn’t tell anyone about the 1st time she met Elvis Presley
During a 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Priscilla said her ability to keep secrets endeared her to the “Can’t Help Falling in Love” singer. She recalled meeting him at his home in Germany while he was in the U.S.
- 8/25/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Sunlit suburban calm masks the shocking nature of the story itself: a horrendous tragedy in the guise of a teenage coming-of-age movie
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Sofia Coppola made her feature directing debut with this adaptation of the literary sensation of its day: Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel about five teen sisters in 70s suburban Michigan who take their own lives. Now it is rereleased with a solemn trigger-warning disclaimer at the beginning about certain historic attitudes which might now cause offence; these are unspecified, but it appears to mean the entire premise of the film, up there in the title, but which is treated more circumspectly nowadays in the context of new ideas around self-harm and “suicidal ideation”.
This was a movie which mystified as many as it entranced, and it would be honest of me to admit that I didn’t quite understand it back in...
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Sofia Coppola made her feature directing debut with this adaptation of the literary sensation of its day: Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel about five teen sisters in 70s suburban Michigan who take their own lives. Now it is rereleased with a solemn trigger-warning disclaimer at the beginning about certain historic attitudes which might now cause offence; these are unspecified, but it appears to mean the entire premise of the film, up there in the title, but which is treated more circumspectly nowadays in the context of new ideas around self-harm and “suicidal ideation”.
This was a movie which mystified as many as it entranced, and it would be honest of me to admit that I didn’t quite understand it back in...
- 7/26/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Directed by David Lynch
On the occasion of the home video and streaming release of the newly remastered Inland Empire (for which we were lucky enough to chat with the man himself), Criterion has put together a fine tribute to David Lynch, also featuring Eraserhead (1977), Dune (1984), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Lost Highway (1997), and Mulholland Dr. (2001). Don’t sleep on the bonus features, including a new conversation between Laura Dern and Kyle Maclachlan. Also, set to arrive on April 1 is The Elephant Man (1980).
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons
French New Wave master Eric Rohmer’s 1990s project was Tales of the Four Seasons, all of which have now received new restorations. Following...
Directed by David Lynch
On the occasion of the home video and streaming release of the newly remastered Inland Empire (for which we were lucky enough to chat with the man himself), Criterion has put together a fine tribute to David Lynch, also featuring Eraserhead (1977), Dune (1984), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Lost Highway (1997), and Mulholland Dr. (2001). Don’t sleep on the bonus features, including a new conversation between Laura Dern and Kyle Maclachlan. Also, set to arrive on April 1 is The Elephant Man (1980).
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons
French New Wave master Eric Rohmer’s 1990s project was Tales of the Four Seasons, all of which have now received new restorations. Following...
- 4/7/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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Just in time for International Women’s Day, Sofia Coppola’s cult films are the star of Uniqlo’s new collection.
The Japanese basics retailer is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s debut with a five-piece capsule of graphic T-shirts and a tote bag ($25 to $30) featuring Coppola’s most beloved films. Available in sizes Xxs to Xxl, the tees immortalize some of the most memorable scenes and lines from her debut 1999 film The Virgin Suicides (based on the novel of the same name by Jeffrey Eugenides) alongside Marie Antoinette, Somewhere and The Bling Ring.
The 51-year-old writer-director is no stranger to the fashion world. Coppola frequently collaborates with Chanel, where she interned as a teenager under Karl Lagerfeld and for whom she recreated Coco Chanel...
Just in time for International Women’s Day, Sofia Coppola’s cult films are the star of Uniqlo’s new collection.
The Japanese basics retailer is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s debut with a five-piece capsule of graphic T-shirts and a tote bag ($25 to $30) featuring Coppola’s most beloved films. Available in sizes Xxs to Xxl, the tees immortalize some of the most memorable scenes and lines from her debut 1999 film The Virgin Suicides (based on the novel of the same name by Jeffrey Eugenides) alongside Marie Antoinette, Somewhere and The Bling Ring.
The 51-year-old writer-director is no stranger to the fashion world. Coppola frequently collaborates with Chanel, where she interned as a teenager under Karl Lagerfeld and for whom she recreated Coco Chanel...
- 3/9/2023
- by Danielle Directo-Meston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Distributor Fathom Events will showcase critically acclaimed Greek war drama “Smyrna” on 700 screens in the U.S. as a one-night-only event on December 8. The limited wide release will raise the profile of the highest-budgeted production in the history of Greek cinema.
The film depicts the 1922 catastrophe at the end of the Greco-Turkish war that destroyed much of the city of Smyrna on Turkey’s Aegean coast, resulting in a monumental refugee crisis. The disaster and the events leading up to it are filtered through the eyes and experiences of a family living in Smyrna.
In anticipation of the one-time wide release, a special screening of the film will take place on November 29th at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City under the auspices of the Greek Permanent Mission to the U.S. It will also be screened at the European Parliament in Brussels on January 11, 2023, as well...
The film depicts the 1922 catastrophe at the end of the Greco-Turkish war that destroyed much of the city of Smyrna on Turkey’s Aegean coast, resulting in a monumental refugee crisis. The disaster and the events leading up to it are filtered through the eyes and experiences of a family living in Smyrna.
In anticipation of the one-time wide release, a special screening of the film will take place on November 29th at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City under the auspices of the Greek Permanent Mission to the U.S. It will also be screened at the European Parliament in Brussels on January 11, 2023, as well...
- 11/14/2022
- by Peter Caranicas
- Variety Film + TV
Who are those eternal dream girls of summer? Now in 4K . . . Sofia Coppola’s first feature is a head-swirling poetic essay about adolescent angst and tragic self-annihilation. Some families are balanced, others are dysfunctional and some are just plain toxic. Ms. Coppola sticks close to the source book, looking for visuals to express author Jeffrey Eugenides’ solution-challenged mystery, narrated by a composite group of teenaged boys.
The Virgin Suicides 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 920
1999 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date July 5, 2022 / 49.95
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, A. J. Cook, Hanna Hall, Leslie Hayman, Chelse Swain, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Josh Hartnett, Michael Paré, Scott Glenn, Danny DeVito, Giovanni Ribisi.
Cinematography: Ed Lachman
Film Editor: Melissa Kent, James Lyons
Original Music: Air
From the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Julie Costanzo, Dan Halsted, Chris Hanley
Written and Directed by Sofia Coppola...
The Virgin Suicides 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 920
1999 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date July 5, 2022 / 49.95
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, A. J. Cook, Hanna Hall, Leslie Hayman, Chelse Swain, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Josh Hartnett, Michael Paré, Scott Glenn, Danny DeVito, Giovanni Ribisi.
Cinematography: Ed Lachman
Film Editor: Melissa Kent, James Lyons
Original Music: Air
From the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Julie Costanzo, Dan Halsted, Chris Hanley
Written and Directed by Sofia Coppola...
- 8/13/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Reminder: just because you purchased a digital copy of your favorite film, that doesn’t always mean you get to keep it for forever. Thousands of Sony Playstation users woke up to the news that their libraries of films would be gone in a month. Making the case for physical media, yet again. And if you’re looking to hoard DVDs for years to come, try and make it the best version of that medium and go for a Criterion Collection classic. These DVD, Blu-ray and 4K collections are the cream of the crop, often boasting unearthed interviews and adorned with stunning artwork.
And right now, thanks to Amazon Prime Day, many of our favorite films are 50 off. Here’s a list of our favorites currently on sale.
The ‘Before’ Trilogy Three iconic romance meditations from director Richard Linklater. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy star in “Before Sunrise” (1995), “Before Sunset...
And right now, thanks to Amazon Prime Day, many of our favorite films are 50 off. Here’s a list of our favorites currently on sale.
The ‘Before’ Trilogy Three iconic romance meditations from director Richard Linklater. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy star in “Before Sunrise” (1995), “Before Sunset...
- 7/12/2022
- by Meredith Woerner
- Variety Film + TV
“Harry Potter” writer J.K Rowling, “Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood and “Midnight’s Children” writer Salman Rushdie are amongst 150 public figures to have signed a letter condemning the practice of ‘public shaming,’ or cancel culture as it is known popularly.
Cancel culture is a term used to describe individuals who have shared an unpopular opinion or have past behavior that’s deemed offensive, who are ‘canceled’ on social media. Rowling is one such example, due to her views on the trans community.
Atwood received considerable backlash in late 2016 after supporting an open letter calling on Canada’s University of British Columbia to provide its reasons for suspending and firing novelist and instructor Steven Galloway after sexual assault allegations emerged. Meanwhile, Rushdie’s 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” has also drawn criticism over the years for its depiction of Islamic beliefs.
Other signatories of the letter include authors Martin Amis and Jeffrey Eugenides,...
Cancel culture is a term used to describe individuals who have shared an unpopular opinion or have past behavior that’s deemed offensive, who are ‘canceled’ on social media. Rowling is one such example, due to her views on the trans community.
Atwood received considerable backlash in late 2016 after supporting an open letter calling on Canada’s University of British Columbia to provide its reasons for suspending and firing novelist and instructor Steven Galloway after sexual assault allegations emerged. Meanwhile, Rushdie’s 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” has also drawn criticism over the years for its depiction of Islamic beliefs.
Other signatories of the letter include authors Martin Amis and Jeffrey Eugenides,...
- 7/8/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
"What we have here is a dreamer. Someone completely out of touch with reality." 20 years ago, Sofia Coppola made her directorial debut with The Virgin Suicides, an adaptation of the 1993 book of the same name by Jeffrey Eugenides. With high expectations given that she was the daughter of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Coppola made a name for herself as a director with her take on the tragic tale of the five Lisbon sisters, led by a then 16-year-old Kirsten Dunst. The Virgin Suicides, which kicked off a long collaboration between Coppola and Dunst, wasn't a massive hit at the box office when it was first released on April 21, but it's gone on to become a cult classic, with many of its...
- 4/22/2020
- E! Online
A melancholic adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel about death in 70s suburbia remains a perfect marriage of style and substance
At the centre of The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola’s dreamy yet devastating adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s acclaimed 1993 novel, is an unsolved mystery of the most troubling kind, a puzzle that will never be completed. The questions asked by those in the film, and by us the viewers, will never be fully answered. An attempt to figure out the hows and whys will only ever be that, an attempt. It’s what’s left behind when someone kills themselves, a fog of painful unsureness, a feeling that I filed away as other when I was 16, watching it for the first of many times. As is the case for many teens, the idea had briefly entered my mind at certain low points, but it still felt distant, like looking...
At the centre of The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola’s dreamy yet devastating adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s acclaimed 1993 novel, is an unsolved mystery of the most troubling kind, a puzzle that will never be completed. The questions asked by those in the film, and by us the viewers, will never be fully answered. An attempt to figure out the hows and whys will only ever be that, an attempt. It’s what’s left behind when someone kills themselves, a fog of painful unsureness, a feeling that I filed away as other when I was 16, watching it for the first of many times. As is the case for many teens, the idea had briefly entered my mind at certain low points, but it still felt distant, like looking...
- 4/21/2020
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
Jeffrey Eugenides, the author of The Virgin Suicides, is about to have one of his other bestselling novels receive an adaptation — this time on the small screen. Eugenides’ coming-of-age novel meets immigrant drama Middlesex is being adapted into a TV series by Paramount Television Studios, with Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson set to helm. Variety broke […]
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- 4/16/2020
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
Paramount Television Studios has acquired the television rights to the book “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides in a competitive situation, Variety has learned exclusively.
The book was first published in 2002 and has gone on to sell more than 4 million copies. It also won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003. It was previously in the works as a series at HBO back in 2009.
The story follows Calliope “Cal” Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family as they travel from their tiny village to Prohibition-era Detroit, eventually witnessing the race riots of 1967 before moving out to suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Over the course of the story, Cal discovers that she is really a he, tracing his transformation to a genetic condition that runs through the family.
No network or streaming service is currently attached to the project.
David Manson is attached to write the series with Sam Taylor Johnson onboard to direct.
The book was first published in 2002 and has gone on to sell more than 4 million copies. It also won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003. It was previously in the works as a series at HBO back in 2009.
The story follows Calliope “Cal” Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family as they travel from their tiny village to Prohibition-era Detroit, eventually witnessing the race riots of 1967 before moving out to suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Over the course of the story, Cal discovers that she is really a he, tracing his transformation to a genetic condition that runs through the family.
No network or streaming service is currently attached to the project.
David Manson is attached to write the series with Sam Taylor Johnson onboard to direct.
- 4/15/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix may get most of the attention, but it’s hardly a one-stop shop for cinephiles who are looking to stream essential classic and contemporary films. Each of the prominent streaming platforms — and there are more of them all the time — caters to its own niche of film obsessives. From chilling horror fare on Shudder, to esoteric (but unmissable) festival hits on the newly launched Ovid.tv, IndieWire’s monthly guide will highlight the best of what’s coming to every major streaming site, with an eye towards exclusive titles and bonus features that may help readers decide which of these services is right for them.
Here’s the best of the best for April 2019.
Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime has become the most reliable platform for exclusive streaming access to exciting indie and foreign movies. Netflix might get “Infinity War,” but Amazon Prime gets “Shoplifters.” Netflix might get “Solo,” but Amazon Prime gets “Cold War.
Here’s the best of the best for April 2019.
Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime has become the most reliable platform for exclusive streaming access to exciting indie and foreign movies. Netflix might get “Infinity War,” but Amazon Prime gets “Shoplifters.” Netflix might get “Solo,” but Amazon Prime gets “Cold War.
- 4/5/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Meryl Streep’s frostiness on the set of “Devil Wears Prada” gave Anne Hathaway more than a chill.
On Thursday’s episode of “The Late Show” the “Ocean’s 8” actress explained to host Stephen Colbert how her anxiety around her distant co-star on the set of the 2006 comedy — in which Streep played high fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly and Hathaway her assistant Andy — got so bad she felt like she was being “throw into a demonic pit.”
“There’s a scene where Andy and Miranda are getting out of a car, and in order to get the shot Meryl and I had to sit in the car and circle,” Hathaway explained. “Now, Meryl was kind of an island unto herself when we filmed this, so I didn’t get to talk to her too much. But I was going to get a whole scene to sit into a car with her just her and me.
On Thursday’s episode of “The Late Show” the “Ocean’s 8” actress explained to host Stephen Colbert how her anxiety around her distant co-star on the set of the 2006 comedy — in which Streep played high fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly and Hathaway her assistant Andy — got so bad she felt like she was being “throw into a demonic pit.”
“There’s a scene where Andy and Miranda are getting out of a car, and in order to get the shot Meryl and I had to sit in the car and circle,” Hathaway explained. “Now, Meryl was kind of an island unto herself when we filmed this, so I didn’t get to talk to her too much. But I was going to get a whole scene to sit into a car with her just her and me.
- 5/25/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Scores on Screen is a column by Clare Nina Norelli on film soundtracks.“I think that we wrote the spirit — the musical spirit — that [Sofia Coppola] had needed for her movie.”–Jean-Benoît Dunckel (Air)1The Virgin Suicides (1999) opens with a blonde teen-aged girl standing in the middle of a suburban street eating a popsicle. She is looking out past the camera, appears simultaneously bored and amused, and is surrounded by the familiar sounds of imminent dusk: birds chirping, the hiss of sprinklers, the bark of a dog, the elongated buzz of crickets, and a child’s shouts. Underneath this chorus of the everyday, a grave electric organ-driven dirge on the soundtrack invests the otherwise commonplace scene with an eerie solemnity. The girl moves off camera and, amidst the golden hues of sunlight flickering through tree branches, we are shown other residents of her neighborhood going about their afternoons, their faces obscured,...
- 5/25/2018
- MUBI
The Pulitzer at 100 director and Oscar-winner for Strangers No More, Kirk Simon, has died. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Pulitzer At 100 director and Oscar-winner for Strangers No More, Kirk Simon, died at the age of 63 on April 14 in New York.
For his most recent documentary, Kirk assembled a grand cast plus authors, journalists, composers and photographers who have won Pulitzers, to create a vivid portrait of the importance of Joseph Pulitzer's brilliant idea to establish the School of Journalism at Columbia University and award prizes.
Kirk Simon documented Jane Goodall's work in Chimps: So Like Us Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Kirk Simon documented Jane Goodall's work in Chimps: So Like Us, Ingmar...
The Pulitzer At 100 director and Oscar-winner for Strangers No More, Kirk Simon, died at the age of 63 on April 14 in New York.
For his most recent documentary, Kirk assembled a grand cast plus authors, journalists, composers and photographers who have won Pulitzers, to create a vivid portrait of the importance of Joseph Pulitzer's brilliant idea to establish the School of Journalism at Columbia University and award prizes.
Kirk Simon documented Jane Goodall's work in Chimps: So Like Us Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Kirk Simon documented Jane Goodall's work in Chimps: So Like Us, Ingmar...
- 4/26/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sofia Coppola’s first feature film is a head-swirling poetic essay about adolescent angst and terminal self-destruction in suburbia, where some families are unbalanced, others are dysfunctional and some are just plain toxic. Coppola sticks close to the source book, looking for visuals to express author Jeffrey Eugenides’ solution-challenged mystery, narrated by a composite group of teenaged boys.
The Virgin Suicides
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 920
1999 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 24, 2018 / 39.95
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, A. J. Cook, Hanna Hall, Leslie Hayman, Chelse Swain, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Josh Hartnett, Michael Paré, Scott Glenn, Danny DeVito, Giovanni Ribisi.
Cinematography: Ed Lachman
Film Editor: Melissa Kent, James Lyons
Original Music: Air
From the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Julie Costanzo, Dan Halsted, Chris Hanley
Written and Directed by Sofia Coppola
At the finale of the Apocalypse Now documentary Hearts of Darkness Francis...
The Virgin Suicides
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 920
1999 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 24, 2018 / 39.95
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, A. J. Cook, Hanna Hall, Leslie Hayman, Chelse Swain, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Josh Hartnett, Michael Paré, Scott Glenn, Danny DeVito, Giovanni Ribisi.
Cinematography: Ed Lachman
Film Editor: Melissa Kent, James Lyons
Original Music: Air
From the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Julie Costanzo, Dan Halsted, Chris Hanley
Written and Directed by Sofia Coppola
At the finale of the Apocalypse Now documentary Hearts of Darkness Francis...
- 4/17/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The director relives the creation of her debut film, from the family tragedy that drew her to the story of five sisters taking their lives – to its terrifying Cannes premiere
I grew up with a lot of men. It was me and nine boys, once you count all my brothers and cousins. My dad, Francis Ford Coppola, was a macho film-maker and his friends were all of that ilk, so I think I really clung to femininity and a kind of girly aesthetic.
When I was in my mid-20s, I came across The Virgin Suicides. I remember seeing the cover – it was just all this blonde hair. I read it and loved it. It felt like Jeffrey Eugenides, the writer, really understood the experience of being a teenager: the longing, the melancholy, the mystery between boys and girls. I loved how the boys were so confused by the girls,...
I grew up with a lot of men. It was me and nine boys, once you count all my brothers and cousins. My dad, Francis Ford Coppola, was a macho film-maker and his friends were all of that ilk, so I think I really clung to femininity and a kind of girly aesthetic.
When I was in my mid-20s, I came across The Virgin Suicides. I remember seeing the cover – it was just all this blonde hair. I read it and loved it. It felt like Jeffrey Eugenides, the writer, really understood the experience of being a teenager: the longing, the melancholy, the mystery between boys and girls. I loved how the boys were so confused by the girls,...
- 1/25/2018
- by Sofia Coppola
- The Guardian - Film News
Our new culture podcast, The Start, brings major artists to the mic to reveal how they began their careers. In this first episode, Sofia Coppola talks about the fear and the thrill of directing her debut film, The Virgin Suicides
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At the 1999 Cannes film festival, attendees watched the work of a little-known 28 year old. That film was The Virgin Suicides, written, directed, and produced by Sofia Coppola. The novel by Jeffrey Eugenides about a doomed family of teenage sisters had resonated so much with the young Sofia she felt compelled to step behind the camera and make her own mark on movies.
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At the 1999 Cannes film festival, attendees watched the work of a little-known 28 year old. That film was The Virgin Suicides, written, directed, and produced by Sofia Coppola. The novel by Jeffrey Eugenides about a doomed family of teenage sisters had resonated so much with the young Sofia she felt compelled to step behind the camera and make her own mark on movies.
- 1/25/2018
- by Produced by Eva Krysiak with original music by Stephen Fiske
- The Guardian - Film News
Sofia Coppla acclaimed directorial debut “The Virgin Suicides” will be joining the Criterion Collection this April with a 4K digital restoration supervised by cinematographer Ed Lachman and approved by Coppola. The release is the highlight of the April 2018 additions, which also include Jim Jarmusch’s “Dead Man,” Sergei Parajanov’s “The Color of Pomegranates,” and Leo McCarey’s “The Awful Truth.”
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In addition to the 4K restoration, “The Virgin Suicides” Criterion release will also include new interviews with Coppola, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson. Coppola’s 1998 short film “Lick the Star” will also be included as a bonus feature, as will a making-of documentary directed by Sofia’s mother, filmmaker Eleanor Coppola. The movie is now available to...
Read More:Sofia Coppola: How She Survived ‘The Beguiled’ Backlash, Why She Won’t Do TV, and Why Her Dad is ‘Over’ Film
In addition to the 4K restoration, “The Virgin Suicides” Criterion release will also include new interviews with Coppola, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson. Coppola’s 1998 short film “Lick the Star” will also be included as a bonus feature, as will a making-of documentary directed by Sofia’s mother, filmmaker Eleanor Coppola. The movie is now available to...
- 1/16/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Film on Washington paper’s role in Vietnam leak comes as talk of treason is back and the press is again at loggerheads with a hardline Republican White House
It has been described as a Hollywood all-star team’s riposte to Donald Trump. Steven Spielberg’s new film, The Post, headlined by Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, dramatises the Washington Post’s publication of the classified Pentagon Papers, which exposed government lies about the Vietnam war.
Related: Jeffrey Eugenides: ‘I’m not trying to compete with the outrageousness of Trump’
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It has been described as a Hollywood all-star team’s riposte to Donald Trump. Steven Spielberg’s new film, The Post, headlined by Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, dramatises the Washington Post’s publication of the classified Pentagon Papers, which exposed government lies about the Vietnam war.
Related: Jeffrey Eugenides: ‘I’m not trying to compete with the outrageousness of Trump’
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- 11/27/2017
- by David Smith in Washington
- The Guardian - Film News
When Greta Gerwig’s already-lauded “Lady Bird” hits limited release later this week, the actress-writer-director will join a long line of other female filmmakers who used their directorial debut (this one is Gerwig’s solo directorial debut, just for clarity’s sake) to not only launch their careers, but make a huge mark while doing it. Gerwig’s Saoirse Ronan-starring coming-of-age tale is an instant classic, and one that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to anyone who has enjoyed Gerwig’s charming work as a screenwriter in recent years, bolstered by her ear for dialogue and her love of complicated and complex leading ladies.
While Hollywood still lags when it comes to offering up opportunities to its most talented female filmmakers, many of them have overcome the dismal stats to deliver compelling, interesting, and unique first features. In short, they’re good filmmakers who made good movies,...
While Hollywood still lags when it comes to offering up opportunities to its most talented female filmmakers, many of them have overcome the dismal stats to deliver compelling, interesting, and unique first features. In short, they’re good filmmakers who made good movies,...
- 11/1/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Much-anticipated work from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Hillary Clinton, and more.
- 8/24/2017
- by Vulture Editors
- Vulture
Kirk Simon: "You walk down the hall of Princeton and the first office is Toni Morrison, then it's Tracy K Smith, then it's Jeffrey Eugenides."
In the third and final installment of my conversation with Kirk Simon on The Pulitzer At 100, we discuss filming Natalie Portman in Paris for her reading of Jorie Graham's The Dream of the Unified Field, Liev Schreiber (who played Martin Baron in Tom McCarthy's Spotlight) picking Death Of A Salesman and The Grapes Of Wrath, Ken Burns and The Statue of Liberty, Toni Morrison (Beloved), Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex), photographers John Filo (Kent State) and Nick Ut (Napalm Girl), finding Kim Phuc, Maureen Corrigan on Philip Roth, and the man who started it all - Joseph Pulitzer.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Did you direct the actors who were doing the readings at all?
Liev Schreiber chose Death Of A Salesman and The Grapes Of Wrath...
In the third and final installment of my conversation with Kirk Simon on The Pulitzer At 100, we discuss filming Natalie Portman in Paris for her reading of Jorie Graham's The Dream of the Unified Field, Liev Schreiber (who played Martin Baron in Tom McCarthy's Spotlight) picking Death Of A Salesman and The Grapes Of Wrath, Ken Burns and The Statue of Liberty, Toni Morrison (Beloved), Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex), photographers John Filo (Kent State) and Nick Ut (Napalm Girl), finding Kim Phuc, Maureen Corrigan on Philip Roth, and the man who started it all - Joseph Pulitzer.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Did you direct the actors who were doing the readings at all?
Liev Schreiber chose Death Of A Salesman and The Grapes Of Wrath...
- 7/24/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Pulitzer At 100 director Kirk Simon on the man Liev Schreiber portrayed in Tom McCarthy's Oscar-winning Spotlight: "You do not mess with Marty Baron!" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Kirk Simon has assembled a grand cast (Helen Mirren, Natalie Portman, John Lithgow, Martin Scorsese, Yara Shahidi, and Liev Schreiber) plus authors, journalists, composers and photographers (including Paula Vogel, Toni Morrison, David Remnick, Wynton Marsalis, Tony Kushner, John Adams, Carl Bernstein, Nicholas Kristof, Jeffrey Eugenides, Thomas Friedman, Michael Cunningham, John Adams, Michael Chabon, Martin Baron, Junot Díaz, Ayad Akhtar, Robin Givhan, Sheri Fink, John Filo, Nick Ut, and Robert A. Caro) who have won Pulitzers, to create a vivid portrait of the importance of Joseph Pulitzer's brilliant idea to establish the School of Journalism at Columbia University and award prizes.
In The Pulitzer At 100, Helen Mirren has a Long Day's Journey Into Night with Eugene O'Neill Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze...
Kirk Simon has assembled a grand cast (Helen Mirren, Natalie Portman, John Lithgow, Martin Scorsese, Yara Shahidi, and Liev Schreiber) plus authors, journalists, composers and photographers (including Paula Vogel, Toni Morrison, David Remnick, Wynton Marsalis, Tony Kushner, John Adams, Carl Bernstein, Nicholas Kristof, Jeffrey Eugenides, Thomas Friedman, Michael Cunningham, John Adams, Michael Chabon, Martin Baron, Junot Díaz, Ayad Akhtar, Robin Givhan, Sheri Fink, John Filo, Nick Ut, and Robert A. Caro) who have won Pulitzers, to create a vivid portrait of the importance of Joseph Pulitzer's brilliant idea to establish the School of Journalism at Columbia University and award prizes.
In The Pulitzer At 100, Helen Mirren has a Long Day's Journey Into Night with Eugene O'Neill Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze...
- 7/18/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Up until a few years ago, Sofia Coppola swore she would never do a remake. Then her production designer, Anne Ross, brought Don Siegel's 1971 pulp classic The Beguiled to her attention – and the director saw a film ripe for retelling. A group of Southern belles are holed up at an all-girls school during the Civil War; suddenly, the young women and their headmistress have their isolated existence disrupted by a wounded Union soldier. Nearly half a century ago, Clint Eastwood's Corporal John McBurney behaved as if he had arrived at a brothel,...
- 6/22/2017
- Rollingstone.com
This is the first part of a series exploring significant films from the careers of directors showing new work at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
“In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained. Oddly shaped emptiness mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn’t name. What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts. A clock ticking on the wall, a room dim at noon, the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”
— “The Virgin Suicides”
Sofia Coppola didn’t write the searching, wonderstruck narration that ends “The Virgin Suicides,” but it often feels as though her entire body of work has been devoted to clarifying that crucial passage from the Jeffrey Eugenides novel on which she based her directorial debut. Filling its gaps. Deepening its imagery. Solving its missing femininity.
“In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained. Oddly shaped emptiness mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn’t name. What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts. A clock ticking on the wall, a room dim at noon, the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”
— “The Virgin Suicides”
Sofia Coppola didn’t write the searching, wonderstruck narration that ends “The Virgin Suicides,” but it often feels as though her entire body of work has been devoted to clarifying that crucial passage from the Jeffrey Eugenides novel on which she based her directorial debut. Filling its gaps. Deepening its imagery. Solving its missing femininity.
- 5/12/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Girl Talk is a weekly look at women in film — past, present and future.
In the spring of 1999, Sofia Coppola’s feature directorial debut, a big screen version of Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel “The Virgin Suicides,” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. A delicate, deeply feeling and achingly human portrait of suburban ennui and teenage depression, the film was anchored by a performance by a then-17-year-old Kirsten Dunst. As Lux Lisbon, the prettiest and wildest and most broken of the five Lisbon sisters that the film so intimately chronicles, Dunst was tasked with straddling the gap between deep pain and flickering hope.
The film follows the Lisbons after their youngest sister, Cecilia, twice attempts suicide, completing the act on her second try, all during party thrown by her terrified parents in hopes of cheering her up enough to keep her alive. The Lisbons, by and large, are suffocated by their...
In the spring of 1999, Sofia Coppola’s feature directorial debut, a big screen version of Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel “The Virgin Suicides,” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. A delicate, deeply feeling and achingly human portrait of suburban ennui and teenage depression, the film was anchored by a performance by a then-17-year-old Kirsten Dunst. As Lux Lisbon, the prettiest and wildest and most broken of the five Lisbon sisters that the film so intimately chronicles, Dunst was tasked with straddling the gap between deep pain and flickering hope.
The film follows the Lisbons after their youngest sister, Cecilia, twice attempts suicide, completing the act on her second try, all during party thrown by her terrified parents in hopes of cheering her up enough to keep her alive. The Lisbons, by and large, are suffocated by their...
- 7/21/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Jingoist and Blind screenwriter John Buffalo Mailer Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Cremaster and Drawing Restraint 9 (with Björk) mastermind, Matthew Barney, adapted Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings to create River Of Fundament. Cornelia Parker staged The Maybe with Tilda Swinton at MoMA and now her Alfred Hitchcock Psycho inspired Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) is on The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden - the perfect setting for a John Buffalo Mailer on Norman Bates, Houdini, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes on Gay Talese's The Voyeur's Motel, Michael Mailer, Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore and Dylan McDermott conversation.
Ellen Burstyn, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Giamatti, James Toback, Elaine Stritch, Debbie Harry, James Lee Byars, Lawrence Weiner, Salman Rushdie, Luc Sante, Cinqué Lee, Jonas Mekas, Fran Lebowitz, Dick Cavett, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aimee Mullins and Sam Nivola are among the River Of Fundament dwellers. Buffalo Mailer, Milford Graves and Lakota Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle reincarnate as Norman I, Norman II...
Cremaster and Drawing Restraint 9 (with Björk) mastermind, Matthew Barney, adapted Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings to create River Of Fundament. Cornelia Parker staged The Maybe with Tilda Swinton at MoMA and now her Alfred Hitchcock Psycho inspired Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) is on The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden - the perfect setting for a John Buffalo Mailer on Norman Bates, Houdini, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes on Gay Talese's The Voyeur's Motel, Michael Mailer, Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore and Dylan McDermott conversation.
Ellen Burstyn, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Giamatti, James Toback, Elaine Stritch, Debbie Harry, James Lee Byars, Lawrence Weiner, Salman Rushdie, Luc Sante, Cinqué Lee, Jonas Mekas, Fran Lebowitz, Dick Cavett, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aimee Mullins and Sam Nivola are among the River Of Fundament dwellers. Buffalo Mailer, Milford Graves and Lakota Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle reincarnate as Norman I, Norman II...
- 6/15/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
At home with Festa del Cinema Artistic Director Antonio Monda Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
From playing a role in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, having recent Le Conversazioni with Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Sondheim, Zadie Smith, Patrick McGrath, Isabella Rossellini, Salman Rushdie, Julie Taymor, Jeffrey Eugenides, Marina Abramovic and Daniel Libeskind, to co-founding Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, with this year's highlights including Ivano de Matteo's The Dinner (I Nostri Ragazzi) and Lamberto Sanfelice's Chlorine (Cloro), starring Sara Serraiocco - Antonio Monda has done a great deal already. Now, he is appointed the Artistic Director of the Rome International Film Festival.
Isabella Rossellini with Antonio Monda in the Morgan Library & Museum Green Room Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
After Antonio had just returned from the Cannes Film Festival, we spoke about the challenges he looks forward to, how Gay Talese and Jonathan Franzen surprised him, a Renzo Piano connection,...
From playing a role in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, having recent Le Conversazioni with Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Sondheim, Zadie Smith, Patrick McGrath, Isabella Rossellini, Salman Rushdie, Julie Taymor, Jeffrey Eugenides, Marina Abramovic and Daniel Libeskind, to co-founding Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, with this year's highlights including Ivano de Matteo's The Dinner (I Nostri Ragazzi) and Lamberto Sanfelice's Chlorine (Cloro), starring Sara Serraiocco - Antonio Monda has done a great deal already. Now, he is appointed the Artistic Director of the Rome International Film Festival.
Isabella Rossellini with Antonio Monda in the Morgan Library & Museum Green Room Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
After Antonio had just returned from the Cannes Film Festival, we spoke about the challenges he looks forward to, how Gay Talese and Jonathan Franzen surprised him, a Renzo Piano connection,...
- 6/9/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Last spring, Karl Ove Knausgaard came to New York to promote Boyhood Island, the third volume of his six-part series of autobiographical novels, My Struggle. The line to see him interviewed by Zadie Smith at the bookstore McNally Jackson stretched around the block, and there appeared to be a Knausgaard look-alike outside (though he might have been a stray Euro-hippie). One night later, Knausgaard spoke with Jeffrey Eugenides at the New York Public Library. He talked about some of his main themes, the undifferentiated nature of experience (“It’s completely possible to sit at home and read Heidegger and then next moment you go and do the dishes — it’s the same world”) and what happens when the body dies (“For the heart, life is simple: It beats for as long as it can. Then it stops”). Reading from his books, he stood swaying a bit like a folksinger...
- 4/21/2015
- by Christian Lorentzen
- Vulture
By coincidence two Australian time-travelling films. had their world premieres at the weekend at the Sxsx festival in Austin, Texas, and both got effusive reviews.
Variety hailed the Spierig brothers. Predestination as an .an entrancingly strange time-travel saga that suggests a Philip K. Dick yarn by way of Jeffrey Eugenides. Middlesex or perhaps a feature-length mash-up of Looper and Cloud Atlas."
The Hollywood Reporter described first-time writer-director Hugh Sullivan.s The Infinite Man as a .semi-comic relationship film about a control-freak inventor trying time and time again to perfect an affair that may not have needed fixing before he started to tinker with it..
Pinnacle will release Predestination in the second half of the year. Starring Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook and Noah Taylor, it centres on a secret government time-traveling agency designed to prevent future killers and terrorists from committing their crimes.
The Infinite Man, which stars Josh McConville, Hannah Marshall,...
Variety hailed the Spierig brothers. Predestination as an .an entrancingly strange time-travel saga that suggests a Philip K. Dick yarn by way of Jeffrey Eugenides. Middlesex or perhaps a feature-length mash-up of Looper and Cloud Atlas."
The Hollywood Reporter described first-time writer-director Hugh Sullivan.s The Infinite Man as a .semi-comic relationship film about a control-freak inventor trying time and time again to perfect an affair that may not have needed fixing before he started to tinker with it..
Pinnacle will release Predestination in the second half of the year. Starring Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook and Noah Taylor, it centres on a secret government time-traveling agency designed to prevent future killers and terrorists from committing their crimes.
The Infinite Man, which stars Josh McConville, Hannah Marshall,...
- 3/9/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Julie Taymor, Antonio Monda, Jeffrey Eugenides in a backstage Le Conversazioni: Films of My Life discussion. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze The 2013 Le Conversazioni literary festival celebrating the relationship between art, architecture, literature and film concluded at the Morgan Library & Museum on Thursday, November 7 in New York. Artistic director of Le Conversazioni Antonio Monda discussed with Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides - whose novel was adapted into Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999) starring Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, and Kathleen Turner - films that influenced their lives and work. Clips from each of Taymor and Eugenides' chosen movies were shown, plus one from the moderator at the end.
The Films of My Life chosen by Eugenides were Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout (1971), Frank Perry's The Swimmer (1968), Alexander Payne's Sideways (2004), and Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).
Antonio Monda introduces Le Conversazioni Films of My Life Photo:...
The Films of My Life chosen by Eugenides were Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout (1971), Frank Perry's The Swimmer (1968), Alexander Payne's Sideways (2004), and Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).
Antonio Monda introduces Le Conversazioni Films of My Life Photo:...
- 11/18/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
There’s no such thing as a sure path to success in Hollywood, but the Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting is as close as you’re going to get. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the five 2013 finalists just over two weeks ago, and already the honorees are fielding calls from agents, managers and studios eager to work with them. At least one has already signed with an agent and a manager.
The program, now in its 28th year, allows aspiring screenwriters who have never earned more than $25,000 writing fiction for film or television to submit an...
The program, now in its 28th year, allows aspiring screenwriters who have never earned more than $25,000 writing fiction for film or television to submit an...
- 11/8/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
The novelist talks to Emma Brockes about friendship, rivalry and being a '30-year overnight success'
Fiction asks a lot of people, says Meg Wolitzer, "to tell them that you need to learn about these characters, to take time out in your day from being frightened for your livelihood and your children, to think about Susan and Bill, who don't exist. It's a nervy thing to ask." She asks it of herself every time she sits down to write – "What fiction ought to do" – and the answer had better be good. "The anxiety makes me a stronger writer."
The Interestings, Wolitzer's ninth novel, is more ambitious than any she has written so far, tracking a group of friends from the moment they meet, at summer camp, up through the decades of their lives. It has done very well in the Us, so that at 54, Wolitzer has become, as a friend joked to her recently,...
Fiction asks a lot of people, says Meg Wolitzer, "to tell them that you need to learn about these characters, to take time out in your day from being frightened for your livelihood and your children, to think about Susan and Bill, who don't exist. It's a nervy thing to ask." She asks it of herself every time she sits down to write – "What fiction ought to do" – and the answer had better be good. "The anxiety makes me a stronger writer."
The Interestings, Wolitzer's ninth novel, is more ambitious than any she has written so far, tracking a group of friends from the moment they meet, at summer camp, up through the decades of their lives. It has done very well in the Us, so that at 54, Wolitzer has become, as a friend joked to her recently,...
- 8/10/2013
- by Emma Brockes
- The Guardian - Film News
As the daughter of an already acclaimed filmmaker, Sofia Coppola was faced with a fairly big challenge establishing her own identity as a director, when she first started making feature films back in 1999. Since then, she has not only successfully emerged from the shadow of her father, but also become a strong, female auteur with a great body of work. With her 2010 film Somewhere, she became the first American woman to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. As one of the few prominent female directors in Hollywood, her films are ripe with beautiful heroines, interesting, often pale colour palettes, cool clothes and even cooler soundtracks. Her films certainly share her well-known quiet demeanor, as her less-is-more approach to filmmaking subtly leaves distinct marks on audiences. Her filmmaking style is very distinct and focuses on mood and atmosphere instead of heavy plot and dialogue.
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- 6/22/2013
- by Guest Guest
- SoundOnSight
Los Angeles -- "Yentl" goes yenta in "The Guilt Trip," a creakily old-fashioned comedy that forgot to pack the laughs along with the nudging and kvetching. Possibly the first American film in decades in which characters drive cross-country courtesy of process shots out the back window, this mother-son yakfest blows a gasket and all four tires before it even hits the road. With Seth Rogen in very subdued mode, his fans will smell this one a mile away; it might be a movie only their mothers – or die-hard Barbra Streisand fans – could love.
When was the last time an overbearing Jewish mother giving her schlemiel of a son a hard time about not being married was a major component of a big Hollywood film? This sort of routine used to pop up all the time in American comedy but pretty much has vanished in the rearview mirror since the heyday of Ruth Gordon.
When was the last time an overbearing Jewish mother giving her schlemiel of a son a hard time about not being married was a major component of a big Hollywood film? This sort of routine used to pop up all the time in American comedy but pretty much has vanished in the rearview mirror since the heyday of Ruth Gordon.
- 12/18/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Selected from a record 7,197 scripts, it was announced today that five writers have been selected as winners of the 2012 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. Each writer will receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at a gala dinner in Beverly Hills on November 8.
This year’s winners are (listed alphabetically by author):
Nikole Beckwith, Brooklyn, NY, “Stockholm, Pennsylvania”
Sean Robert Daniels, Laezonia, Gauteng, South Africa, “Killers”
James Dilapo, New York, NY, “Devils at Play”
Allan Durand, Lafayette, La, “Willie Francis Must Die Again”
Michael Werwie, Los Angeles, CA, “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile”
This is the first time entries from Louisiana and South Africa have been selected as winners. Fellowships are awarded with the understanding that the recipients will each complete a feature-length screenplay during their fellowship year. The Academy acquires no rights to the works of Nicholl fellows and does not involve...
This year’s winners are (listed alphabetically by author):
Nikole Beckwith, Brooklyn, NY, “Stockholm, Pennsylvania”
Sean Robert Daniels, Laezonia, Gauteng, South Africa, “Killers”
James Dilapo, New York, NY, “Devils at Play”
Allan Durand, Lafayette, La, “Willie Francis Must Die Again”
Michael Werwie, Los Angeles, CA, “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile”
This is the first time entries from Louisiana and South Africa have been selected as winners. Fellowships are awarded with the understanding that the recipients will each complete a feature-length screenplay during their fellowship year. The Academy acquires no rights to the works of Nicholl fellows and does not involve...
- 10/24/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Last night, Danai Gurira, the actress who plays Michonne on The Walking Dead, was one of the ten writers presented the Whiting Writers' Award. Apparently, in her case, the pen is as mighty as the sword. Also, this is no award to sneeze at. (Also, don't sneeze at awards — it's gross.) Past recipients include Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Jeffrey Eugenides, Justin Cronin ... and you get the idea. It appears that beyond being adept at removing jaws, Gurira is an accomplished playwright. She previously won an Obie Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for co-writing the play In the Continuum. Whiting winners are awarded $50,000. Hopefully she got it all in singles because, in a postapocalyptic world, at least she could use the cash to start a fire.
- 10/24/2012
- by Jesse David Fox
- Vulture
Elizabeth Olsen agrees that being turned down by a nice man for the right reasons is infinitely worse than having your heart thrown away by a casual cad.
"Oh yes," she squeals. "Horror of horrors... you just have to try to think it happened for a reason. I try to think like that about everything, all the jobs I don't get, everything.
"It even happened to me yesterday in Liberty's. They had this great shirt in every size but mine, so I just had to think it was so I could get another one. In the last 18 months, I've become a lot more trusting."
Elizabeth Olsen stars in Liberal Arts - a subject she's passionate about
The reason I'm asking is because of her starring role in Liberal Arts, an independent, deceptively light drama out on Friday (5 October), where Olsen plays Zibby, the smart but inevitably younger girl Jesse (Josh Radnor...
"Oh yes," she squeals. "Horror of horrors... you just have to try to think it happened for a reason. I try to think like that about everything, all the jobs I don't get, everything.
"It even happened to me yesterday in Liberty's. They had this great shirt in every size but mine, so I just had to think it was so I could get another one. In the last 18 months, I've become a lot more trusting."
Elizabeth Olsen stars in Liberal Arts - a subject she's passionate about
The reason I'm asking is because of her starring role in Liberal Arts, an independent, deceptively light drama out on Friday (5 October), where Olsen plays Zibby, the smart but inevitably younger girl Jesse (Josh Radnor...
- 10/2/2012
- by Caroline Frost
- Huffington Post
What is fairness? What makes a man, or a woman? What is "natural," and what do we owe to that nature, anyway?
As a pre-requisite to Olympic competition in the 1960s, female Olympians used to strut nude before a panel of doctors who inspected the athletes and their genitalia to verify that they were indeed women. At Hitler's 1936 Olympics in Berlin, two particularly masculine female American sprinting rivals, Helen Stephens and Stella "The Fella" Walsh accused one another of being men in disguise. After Stephens won gold in the 100 Meter dash, she underwent an inspection in which she stripped nude and had her external genitalia inspected. Upon inspection, she was certified as female.
Today, the methodology has changed, but degrading gender inspection is still a part of the every Olympic games, as various governing bodies force athletes to align within tidy gender identities.
Depending on how strictly the condition is defined,...
As a pre-requisite to Olympic competition in the 1960s, female Olympians used to strut nude before a panel of doctors who inspected the athletes and their genitalia to verify that they were indeed women. At Hitler's 1936 Olympics in Berlin, two particularly masculine female American sprinting rivals, Helen Stephens and Stella "The Fella" Walsh accused one another of being men in disguise. After Stephens won gold in the 100 Meter dash, she underwent an inspection in which she stripped nude and had her external genitalia inspected. Upon inspection, she was certified as female.
Today, the methodology has changed, but degrading gender inspection is still a part of the every Olympic games, as various governing bodies force athletes to align within tidy gender identities.
Depending on how strictly the condition is defined,...
- 7/17/2012
- by Bison Messink
- Celebsology
From World & Film
Hollywood seems to be getting serious in its on-again, off-again romance with the nineteenth-century novel. Things started heating up late last year when director Joe Wright (“Atonement”) fast-tracked his high-gloss production of “Anna Karenina.” Then came “Submarine” director Richard Ayoade’s very promising cinematic rendering of Dostoyevsky’s "The Double," starring Mia Wasikowska, who’s suddenly become the redux romantic heroine of choice with her finely calibrated performance in last year’s gothic iteration of “Jane Eyre” and her upcoming title role in the upcoming adaptation of Flaubert’s "Madame Bovary", which added Ezra Miller, the creepy kid from “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” to its talented cast earlier this week.
Now it seems that romantic novels may have upgraded to “trending” status — a distinction that places the last century’s literary giants in dubious company alongside the likes of “The Avengers” and John Travolta’s...
Hollywood seems to be getting serious in its on-again, off-again romance with the nineteenth-century novel. Things started heating up late last year when director Joe Wright (“Atonement”) fast-tracked his high-gloss production of “Anna Karenina.” Then came “Submarine” director Richard Ayoade’s very promising cinematic rendering of Dostoyevsky’s "The Double," starring Mia Wasikowska, who’s suddenly become the redux romantic heroine of choice with her finely calibrated performance in last year’s gothic iteration of “Jane Eyre” and her upcoming title role in the upcoming adaptation of Flaubert’s "Madame Bovary", which added Ezra Miller, the creepy kid from “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” to its talented cast earlier this week.
Now it seems that romantic novels may have upgraded to “trending” status — a distinction that places the last century’s literary giants in dubious company alongside the likes of “The Avengers” and John Travolta’s...
- 5/18/2012
- Huffington Post
As part of our continuing 24-hour coverage of what Superbad director Greg Mottola is doing, Greg Mottola has followed yesterday's revelation that he's considering adapting Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot with today's announcement that he's mounting an altogether different study of neurosis. Mottola is negotiating to direct an "improv-based" film starring Larry David, which the comedian who recently played a nun in The Three Stooges is quickly developing as recompense for that with his Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm collaborators Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, and David Mandel—all of whom are working on this instead of ...
- 5/17/2012
- avclub.com
Greg Mottola‘s schedule is quickly filling up. Earlier this week, the Superbad helmer signed on to adapt the Jeffrey Eugenides novel The Marriage Plot for producer Scott Rudin. Now he’s entered talks to helm something completely different: an untitled comedy for Fox Searchlight, with Curb Your Enthusiasm creator/star and Seinfeld co-creator Larry David in negotiations to star. More [...]...
- 5/17/2012
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Larry David is ready to wash the taste of 2009's Whatever Works out of your mouth: He'll return to the big screen in a not-yet-titled comedy directed by Greg Mottola (who's having a big week, nearing an adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot) and written by Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, and David Mandel, whom David teamed with on Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm both. Plot details are nonexistent, but it'll be "improv-based." Curb: The Movie?...
- 5/17/2012
- by Zach Dionne
- Vulture
If you were as taken by “Superbad” helmer Greg Mottola’s coming of age comedy “Adventureland” as we were, you’ve probably been pretty eager to see what else he has in store. While he did helm the slight but entertaining road trip alien comedy “Paul,” he was also tapped to helm the pilot for Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom," and only yesterday signed up for the promising task of adapting Jeffrey Eugenides’ “The Marriage Plot” for the big screen. Well, now he has another project brewing that will surely have comedy fans champing at the bit.
THR has word that Mottola is in negotiations with Fox Searchlight to helm a currently untitled comedy with “Curb Your Enthusiasm” comedian Larry David in the lead. Best known for creating and starring in the aforementioned HBO series, along with co-creating the seminal NBC sitcom “Seinfeld,” David is now set to work with...
THR has word that Mottola is in negotiations with Fox Searchlight to helm a currently untitled comedy with “Curb Your Enthusiasm” comedian Larry David in the lead. Best known for creating and starring in the aforementioned HBO series, along with co-creating the seminal NBC sitcom “Seinfeld,” David is now set to work with...
- 5/17/2012
- by Benjamin Wright
- The Playlist
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