The latest news and comment on director Sofia Coppola
July 2024
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The Bling Ring: Sofia Coppola’s prescient film of envy and excess
With a paparazzi flash and a Valencia-hued glare, it peeks into the world of the super rich, super privileged, super ugly. Call it the original brat summer
February 2024
‘Tease it to Jesus!’ – the beatific return of big hair
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Hi Octane: Sofia Coppola’s starry 90s series feels like a gen X fever dream
January 2024
Biopic woman: move over Napoleon, Ferrari and Oppenheimer … here come the wives
From Ridley Scott’s Napoleon to Michael Mann’s Ferrari, this has been a year of biopics about men, by men. But it’s the female powerhouses who deserve equal billing
December 2023
Wendy Ide's film of the week
Priscilla review – Sofia Coppola’s stylish, sensitive portrait of life with Elvis
Cailee Spaeny shines in the title role as Coppola delves into the knotty intricacies of Priscilla’s relationship with the rock’n’roll star
True suede shoes: is Priscilla or Elvis more accurate?
One had the beehive hairdo just right, but the other did a better job on the King’s hip-swing. We asked three Elvis experts to give their verdicts on Sofia Coppola’s dreamy biopic and Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 epic
‘It’s Elvis’s fantasy’: how fashion lies at the heart of Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla
Biopic of Presley’s former wife uses clothes and makeup to tell story of suffocating marriage and rebellion
November 2023
Sofia Coppola’s frustrating Priscilla fails its real-life subject
Adrian Horton
Lisa Marie Presley labelled Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla script ‘vengeful and contemptuous’ – reports
October 2023
‘For me it represents the death of the future’: Johny Pitts on Lost in Translation at 20
Sofia Coppola’s 2003 film made a huge impression on the young Johny Pitts. Two decades on, he revisits the movie and the people who made it to investigate its enduring appeal
September 2023
Her inside: Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze and the perils of fictionalising your ex
‘She was chatty, seemingly untroubled’: Jeffrey Eugenides on the babysitter who inspired The Virgin Suicides
Venice film festival 2023 week two roundup – Priscilla, Bernstein, refugees and hitmen
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Priscilla review – Sofia Coppola paints an absorbing, intimate portrait of Elvis’s wife
August 2023
Behind the scenes with Sofia Coppola: memories from a life in film
The director shares the inspirations and experiences that shaped films from Lost in Translation to her forthcoming biopic, Priscilla
July 2023
The Virgin Suicides review – Sofia Coppola’s debut rereleased with solemn trigger-warning
Venice film festival picks starry films despite actors’ strike
March 2023
The Q&A
Sofia Coppola: ‘My most embarrassing moment? Being on the cover of a magazine that said, “Did she ruin The Godfather?”’
The film-maker on wanting to be an editor, why she can’t tell lies and being in the jungle during filming of Apocalypse Now
May 2022
Chanel’s Monte Carlo cruise show pays homage to racing and casinos
Fashion company targets social media audience with playful details and slick Coppola video trailer
March 2022
Ranked
Kirsten Dunst’s 20 best performances – ranked!
To celebrate her Oscar nomination for The Power of the Dog, here are Dunst’s star turns, from game-for-adventure girls-next-door to enigmatic and melancholy brides and widows
