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

yes, I just stick to how she's a rich woman interested in increasingly boring things.

This movie also gets thrown on the recent pile of lonely-aging-guy-thinking-about-things films (Crazy Heart, Solitary Man, etc.)

*slothily washes face in dimly lit bathroom, examining stubble in mirror*

is this movie better than juno

yes

not even sure it is better than juno you know O_o

should've made marie antoinette II

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So...The Virgin Suicides was just sort of a fluke, then? All of her other movies have been horrendous. She went to my school, fwiw

saw virg suds a bit ago and kind of didn't like it very much, or actually didn't think that it was that special or anything, wasn't a bad movie by any means tho

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!

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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"