Posts Tagged ‘Sofia Coppola’
Film Review – On the Rocks
The premise of On the Rocks (2020) contains all the ingredients of classic screwball comedy. A woman develops a nagging feeling that her husband is having an affair. Egged on by her Lothario father, she begins to track her husband’s whereabouts in anticipation of catching…
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Film Review – The Beguiled
The frame, darkened around the edges, gives way to natural light towards the center. Nature and life creeps into view. Light stays in the center while darkness bleeds out, taking away almost any resemblance of an edge to framing of the shot. This becomes an…
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An Appreciation – Lost in Translation
The beauty of life is that it is not made up of plots. We don’t go through our daily routines in three act structures where our actions slowly build up to a climactic peak. Most times, we move within our own bubbles not knowing where…
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DVD Rundown 9-17-2013 – Video Podcast #276
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for September 17th, 2013. In this episode they discuss World War Z, The Bling Ring, Bates Motel and Slacker.
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SIFF Film Review – The Bling Ring
It turns out that if you raise your kids in Los Angeles with little-to-no supervision, home school them based on the principles of The Secret, get divorced, or move around a lot, your children are at risk for becoming entitled, drug-using, sociopathic thieves. Or not.…
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Getting to Know The Bling Ring
One of the many exciting events that occurred during SIFF 2013 was the closing night screening of Sofia Coppola’s latest film, The Bling Ring. As part of the promotion for the movie, I had a chance to meet two of its stars, Katie Chang and…
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Episode 211 – Bill Murray
In honor of the release of Hyde Park on Hudson, Spencer and Greg discuss Bill Murray.
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Bird Watching – In Defense of “Marie Antoinette”
It saddens me that the prevalent thought is that Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006) was a disappointing follow-up to her career-making Lost in Translation (2003). In box office terms, yes, it very much underperformed. And it didn’t storm the awards season as Translation did. But…
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