In light of Baz Luhrman’s 2022 expose of Elvis Presley, how would an adaptation of Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir, Elvis and Me (written with Sandra Harmon) look on the silver screen? If you’re to take the reaction from the crowds that saw Priscilla at Venice, New York, and Vancouver, Coppola's adaptation and stars Cailee Spaeny [...]
My lips pursed with glee as Sofia Coppola’s gorgeous “On the Rocks” spooled out. My glee wasn’t over the fact that the film laments relationships that are on the fritz, nor that we've forgotten how to communicate with one another. Nor did they raise over Laura’s (Rashida Jones) blind insistence that nothing was wrong with [...]
Two idioms repeatedly pop into mind when watching Sofia Coppola’s 2017 remake of “The Beguiled.” “A fox in the henhouse” and “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” neatly encapsulate the atmosphere within this tense drama set near the end of the Civil War. Colin Farrell plays John McBurney, an injured Yankee soldier [...]
