im not in the habit of anticipating movies but i am anticipating sofia coppola's somewhere starring steven dorff, hotel rooms and dreamy retro pop music

"ugh. 'comfort food'"

loving the morbs.

xp scruffbag actor's life is thrown into turmoil when ex-wife dumps child on him

Which is sort of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhrz1-4hN4

Stephen Dorff's Britney video looked better than this.

hate the dorff.

Yeah, the trailer for this looks pretty terrible, but I believe in Sofia so willing to give it a chance (or wait cautiously for reviews)

why do people feel the need to make something out of the dorff? is there an actor shortage? give some unknown a chance to make me cringe.

based on the trailer, I assume she's fucking the head Stroke?

trying to form an opinion about this is difficult

lol at the dorff. he kinda looks like an old "old luke perry"

or young Dennis Wilson

Really don't understand how he gets cast in anything.

based on the trailer, I assume she's fucking the head Stroke?

― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Saturday, July 17, 2010 2:46 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

right because there's no way a woman would base her choice of soundtrack music on anything else

cap'n save a coppola

no just calling out 'funny' misogyny that's really too stupid to call out in the first place.

hated MA so much that I can't picture this being any good.

shes w the phoenix guy iirc

(who is also on the soundtrack)

Because it's misogyny, not that Coppola has never done anything in her life that didn't involve and revolve around her life and her family/friends.

yes well i for one am glad you're here to assume and speculate about it.

happy to oblige

just wish she would make a sci fi r something

she makes rich people sci fi.

try and make that work

p underwhelming reviews 4 this

ya

srsly weak premise for a film

YOURE a seriously weak premise for a film.

just wish she would make a sci fi r something

― plax (ico), Saturday, 17 July 2010 22:41 (1 month ago)

this could be interesting

YOU could be interesting!

lol

ha

lil hat tip for omar

it won the Golden Lion.

yeah, it looks lie a bucnh of cliches

it does. but done well, these are the types of cliches that get to me. and while i assume it's all emotionally manipulative, sophia coppala's no hack, and i think she'll handle this well.

based on the trailer alone, i want to see this.

I still can't get over casting Dorff.

^^^^ lol srsly

s.cop should probably just make trailers imo

1`i know the name steven dorff, but i can't recall what he's been in before this.

The first Blade movie and Britney's most wtf video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YzabSdk7ZA&ob=av2e

the only reason this movie won the venice film festival (if the underwhelming reviews are correct, and i believe they are) is Tarantino's previous friendship with Coppola.

see also: giving the Cannes prize to Micahel Moore for his less than mediocre film back then..

Tarantino accused of favouritism

so i wasnt the only one who thought about it..

this is pretty disappointing. she's making overtures towards slower cinema & uses music diegetically and much more interestingly, but it's pretty underwhelming, straightforward, one note. think a lot of the criticism will focus around her syndication of themes she already explored in LIT -- superficiality of celebrity and ludicrousness of other cultures when unsubtitled

it's okay, though.

im anticipating this sucking

― ultra nate dogg (history mayne), Wednesday, June 23, 2010 11:06 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark

i'm guessing Dorff will never surpass his performance as Candy Darling

dud dud dud dud dud dud dud dud

Never thought I'd look back with fondness on Marie Antoinette but there we are.

One ILX-baiting scene involves two strippers doing a tennis-themed number on hotel room tension poles to "1 Thing."

suddenly, getting a copy of this in the mail feels less special.

I hated Antoinette, a lot.

Dunst then Dorff, wtf.

First tough rule of for your consideration screeners: many of them are, once you set aside the buzz, crap.

nah virgin suicides is a great movie, but so is marie antoinette. i think i am right when i say that.

key: The Virgin Suicides' dialogue and plot is faithfully transcribed from Jeffrey Eugenides.

i never read the virgin suicides but neither of those but dialogue was def. not what made Middlesex a kickass book

I just rewatched VS and now I'm sure it's my fave S. Coppola by quite a bit. Only bit of dialogue that irked me at all was the too on-the-nose "you've never been a 13-year-old girl" right at the beginning. The last time I saw it I would have been around 14 or so, and I think I probably resented the way the movie nailed certain things about adolescent behavior.

I love Marie Antoinette.

"you've never been a 13-year-old girl"

i love that bit

vs is a rly nice film

"A bit too on the nose" describes a lot of what is wrong with her films.

nah virgin suicides is a great movie, but so is marie antoinette. i think i am right when i say that.

you are, 100% right

VS soundtrack is the best AIR album too. i still listen to it all the time.

So do I, it is a great album/soundtrack.

very much anticipating this movie

wait is it true that you hear all of gwen stefani's "cool" in this? because that's awesome

It's not particularly awesome. It's a long scene featuring Elle Fanning doing an ice skating routine, intercut with her father going from bored-on-his-blackberry to coolly-epiphanic-about-his-daughter's-heretofore-unappreciated-talent. It's a couple of long takes. I guess I didn't notice it being creepy, as mentioned above, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Not sure what she was going for with the soundtrack on this one either.

I remember reading some appropriately ponderous quote from the Phoenix guy saying they wanted the soundtrack to sound "like a Ferrari driving through L.A. at night time" or something like that.

Just heard a clip of an interview with her where she says something like "I liked the image of him going to this track in the middle of nowhere with his ferrari because it was a good way to visually set up his life -- going around in circles," and it's like JESUS as if it wasn't heavy-handed enough in the film you have to spell it out for us.

Drama introduces tension and then does something interesting with it -- that's the fun part. And that's also the part missing from this movie.

I liked it. Not The Virgin Suicides, not Lost in Translation, but good. And among my music-lovin' favourites, I feel better about Coppola right now than I do about either of the two Andersons, and I also liked Somewhere better than Greenberg (Baumbach's the fourth I place in that group). I'm all of a sudden in the market for a Black Flag T-shirt.

Reminded me of Brown Bunny sometimes, other times La Dolce Vita. As good as I expected, after hearing all those tired old complaints about nothing happening --not that I couldn't have been wrong. I don't think anyone could decide to hold that shot of Steve plaster-head for so long without knowing full well that it'd make a lot of people gnash their teeth and call it arty (whatever that means).

this was actually p good!

icey likes twin poledancers movie upset

Dorff was way too flat and empty even for a character who was supposed to be flat and empty, and didn't come off as a strikingly good-looking leading man type who could be a star as big as he was supposed to be while completely lacking substance

idk i liked this element that theres absolutely nothing special abt him

I remember reading some appropriately ponderous quote from the Phoenix guy saying they wanted the soundtrack to sound "like a Ferrari driving through L.A. at night time" or something like that.

― She Got the Shakes, Friday, January 7, 2011 11:16 AM (3 weeks ago)

uh arent soundtracks supposed to be ~evocative~ seems like in this context there is nothing ponderous about this at all

i liked this....could watch dozens of movies w/ people driving around california/nevada in a turquoise&pink washed out business class chillwave colourset, somnolent drifting with occasional disquieting moments

brown bunny was probably my favourite us indie of the last decade

dorff was alright, fanning boringly precocious etc, lolled when reminded of those ppl saying how lost in translation was 'so much more poignant' because unconsummated

the previous centuries were full of elegant cultural products depicting desiccated/artifical courtly life...shibuku/velazquez/mozart etc....it doesn't necessarily seem reprehensible that one hwood boutique director turns the camera on themselves

So was the soundtrack to this ever actually released?

this was hardly as bad as reviews and word of mouth made it seems. yeah she seems to like to make movies about bored rich people. but it looked good and elle fanning was great. it was hardly 'without a story' as Id read; if anything it was too deliberate and predictable. but I thought it was fine. not great, but you know, it was ok.

the scene with the rubber mold on his head was the best

The biggest thing that bothered me about this movie is that I could never figure out what level of a movie star he is. Feted in Italy for his movies with Meryl Streep, Sharon Stone, and Al Pacino -- but I don't get the impression that he's like Brad Pitt-famous or anything.

I guess I didn't notice it being creepy, as mentioned above, but it wouldn't surprise me.

The skating routine wouldn't be creepy except for the fact that it comes not long after two other long scenes in which dude passively, distractedly gazes upon slender long-legged young women in short skirts moving about in a stylized, choreographed fashion.

The only good part of this was the replication of Italian tv, and the tagline for his movie, "HOW FAR WOULD YOU DO?" Other than that, dud.

i liked this....could watch dozens of movies w/ people driving around california/nevada in a turquoise&pink washed out business class chillwave colourset, somnolent drifting with occasional disquieting moments

3 Women?

The only good part of this was the replication of Italian tv

S Coppola really thinks foreigners are weird eh?

this thread is a great compendium of terrible ilx film criticism but the best part has to be all the people who have never met an 11-year old and think that the elle fanning character is "precocious"