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SAVE YOURSELF from “Lost in Translation”
Plenty of people will tell you to run to “Lost in Translation;” I, however, am not telling you to walk. I’m telling you to run in the other direction and SAVE YOURSELF! Now, by all means, if you want...
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Oscar Moment: “Somewhere”
The big winner at Venice was “Somewhere,” which won the coveted Golden Lion there. According to jury president Quentin Tarantino, the movie ” . But does that mean anything? The Golden Lion is hardly...
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REVIEW: Somewhere
I’m not a fan of Sofia Coppola’s films – including “Lost in Translation,” which plenty seem to admire without caring for the rest of her work. I find them vapid, vacuous, insipid … I could go through...
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F.I.L.M. of the Week (June 21, 2013)
As I’ve said, I don’t like Sofia Coppola movies. And I think I liked “The Virgin Suicides” not because of her but in spite of her. Perhaps because the films feels nothing like the rest of her work...
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REVIEW: The Bling Ring
“Too many bowls of that grain, no Lucky Charms / the maids come around too much, the parents ain’t around enough,” sings Frank Ocean over the closing credits of Sofia Coppola’s “The Bling Ring,” the...
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REVIEW: The Beguiled
I’m accustomed to having strong reactions to Sofia Coppola’s films, both positively (“The Virgin Suicides,” “The Bling Ring“) and negatively (“Lost in Translation,” “Somewhere“). So perhaps the most...
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