Sofia Coppola

Valley Ho! Three New Restaurants in the SFV Show Some Weaknesses, a Few Surprising Strengths

Lots of Movies This Week Blur the Line Between Fiction and Reality

Judging from current releases, the hallmark of screen success isn't landing a starring role in Man of Steel; it's getting a movie filmed in your house. Shot in 12 days at the filmmaker's Malibu home, Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing took in a healthy per-screen gross over the weekend. Likewise s ... More >>

The Bling Ring Review: Sofia Coppola's Film Has Little to Say About Its Celebrity-Obsessed Thieves

The Bling Ring Guide to L.A.: A Google Map

See also: *The Bling Ring Book Chronicles the Calabasas Teens Who Stole From Celebrities *Cannes: Not Even the Gifted Emma Watson Can Raise The Bling Ring Sofia Coppola's new film The Bling Ring, opening in L.A. this Friday, June 14, tells the story of five teen bandits who stole approximately $3 m ... More >>

Fast & Furious & Elegant: Justin Lin and the Vulgar Auteurs

The Bling Ring Book Chronicles the Calabasas Teens Who Stole From Celebrities

"It seemed like something somebody would make up," author Nancy Jo Sales says on the phone from her New York home. "If you had pitched this as a movie, nobody would've bought it. It would've been too unbelievable." But the story of a bunch of young suburbanites who burglarized a string of celebrity ... More >>

Cannes: Not Even the Gifted Emma Watson Can Raise The Bling Ring

But I haven't given up on Sofia Coppola.

Suntory Rising: The Rise of Japanese Whiskey

In Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola's 2003 cinematic homage to anomie, Bill Murray's character, Bob Harris, travels to Japan and submits to a kind of humiliation by whiskey as the spokesman for Suntory spirits. He endures various slights by pompous art directors, his eyes streaked with mascara and ... More >>

Charlie Sheen Is Winning with Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

Sheen's new film, made with childhood friend Roman Coppola, was his first acting gig after his notorious meltdown

Top 10 Films of 2012

More than ever, boiling this concluding year down to the 10 "best" movies feels both arbitrary and reductive. Ideally, I'd have 25 unnumbered slots. I'd cite another five, formally varied nonfiction films: Tchoupitoulas, Detropia, The Ambassador, Only the Young and How to Survive a Plague. And were ... More >>

L.A. Nightlife in the '90s- Remembering Jabberjaw's Historic Rockin' and L.A. Raves Through The Looking Glass

Courtesy Michelle Carr.Sofia Coppola at Jabberjaw. ​Cheesy Dance hits from the '90s may be all the rage in the clubs right now, but getting nostalgic about L.A. nightlife and how it helped shape the music of the decade, yields two different types of flashbacks (as a gal who dug both rock and d ... More >>

Music to Pick Up/Download

Top 10 Hottest Music Videos Featuring Supermodels (In Honor of Evan Voytas Somehow Getting Kate Moss for His Latest)

Top 10 Music Videos Featuring Models (Featuring Evan Voytas' Kate Moss Cameo)

Somewhere Movie Review

Sofia Coppola takes Stephen Dorff to the dark side of the Chateau Marmont

The Top 10 Films of 2010

Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola and sex with garbage

Sofia Coppola: Lost at the Chateau Marmont

From party girl to Oscar winner, a journey to the stripped-down Somewhere

THE NUTCRACKER

Top 10 Foodie Words We Hate: Starting With Foodie, Part 2

Flickr/WordRidden​ A few months ago we went off on the Top 10 Foodie Words We Hate, a post that generated a lot of feedback, for which we are grateful. It also, as you might expect, generated a lot of other words that are happily vilified by many of us who spend far more time, sadly, writing ... More >>

Phoenix captures LA sound for new Sofia Coppola movie

​International hipster supercouple Sofia Coppola (daughter of Francis Ford, ex-wife of Spike Jonze, Oscar winner for Lost in Translation) and Thomas Mars (lead singer of Phoenix, ie that French band you sort of care about who are not Daft Punk or Air) are in the process of making both a baby a ... More >>

Malcolm McLaren is Dead

​Malcolm McClaren, the art/punk swindler/genius who managed the Sex Pistols, died this morning in New York. He had cancer, and was 64. Throughout a spotty but rather fascinating forty year career in pop culture, McClaren had hands in fashion, all forms of music, and film. He famously lost hi ... More >>

Phoenix Frontman Scores Sweetie Sofia Coppola's New 'Ferraris and Los Angeles' Flick

The Freewheelin' Thomas & Sofia​Phoenix's frontman Thomas Mars is domestic-partnered to OG hipster director Sofia Coppola. Sofia is about to release a new movie, Somewhere, where she most certainly downscaled the period-piece ambitions of Marie Antoinette. Mars, riding high on a wave of critic ... More >>

Prevent Bagel Related Injuries: Make Your Own Kitchen Guillotine

www.guillotine.dk/a real guillotine​Who knew bagels were so dangerous? The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Bagel Related Injuries (that's BRI to you) are extremely common, so common that inventors are busy, as we speak, trying to invent a new bagel slicer. Last year, according t ... More >>

Brunch at The Bazaar: A New Chef de Cuisine, Liquid Nitrogen Clouds, José Andrés and Power Tools

Brunch at The Bazaar has always been fun, a playful procession of wacky dishes and foaming drinks in a setting that looks rather like a cross between Monty Python and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Last week, José Andrés himself was in his fun-house, which considerably upped the rah-rah factor. ... More >>

Tarantino Picks His 20 Favorite Flicks of the Past 17 Years

(Some serious gourmet shit)

Video: Quentin Tarantino's 20 Favorite Flicks of the Past 17 Years

Battle RoyaleWhen Ella Taylor asked me to rename my top five films of all time, I tattled off the obvious titles. She then asked, "Any since the last 17 years?""In my top five?" I asked incredulously. "Well, okay, top 10," she relented."Well, let me think about that."And upon later reflection, I rea ... More >>

Rock Picks: Electric Daisy Carnival, Explosion in the Sky, Rodriguez

Also, DAT Politics, Mika Miko, Etta James and others

Surveillance: Highway to Hell

Jennifer Lynch returns triumphant, bringing Julia Ormond along for the ride

Rami Kashou

In or out

Project Runway’s Season 4

Fabulousness all around: a fan’s notes

Off With Her Manolo Blahniks!

Sofia Coppola’s fashionably slight Marie Antoinette

Lights Out, Spud Dick

Waisted

The corset and the art of Exquisite Restraint

Let Them Eat Film

Tales of wars and misguided youth dominate Cannes 2006

Pop-Star Dreams

Triumph of the Ill

“Beautiful Losers” in Newport Beach

Resistance Is Futile

The Chemical Brothers push the button and you surrender

Water Water Everywhere

Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic, Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve

Page Turner

Hollywood screenwriters get ready for talks

Big Oscar Cover-up!

Less controversy, more fabric

Jason Roe, DVD Don

Persistence of Vision

Amid so many flickering shadows, the scenes that stuck in our heads

Best in Film: Scott Foundas

Best in Film: Ella Taylor

Letters

Pale Fire

The quiet determination of Sofia Coppola

Second Wind

A new generation of filmmakers translates Bill Murray

More Than This

The road unexpectedly taken in Lost in Translation

Lost, Indeed

A note on the perils of pastiche film scoring

Scarlet Fever

Johansson smolders on the edge of stardom

Girls, Interrupted

Debuts from Sofia Coppola and Gina Prince-Bythewood