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  Sofia Coppola talks to Ella Taylor | Interviews | Guardian Unlimited Film
Coppola's reticence makes it easy to see why playing Al Pacino's doomed daughter in The Godfather III - a haplessly gawky performance capped by what may be, unwittingly, one of the funniest death scenes in the history of melodrama - was such agony for her.
Coppola insists the $4m film, which has a loose, impressionistic feel to it with a collection of seemingly haphazard moments, is not based on a specific experience of her own.
Coppola hangs out with a crowd of compulsive improvisers who are every bit as innovative in their way as the Wunderkinder of the 70s of whom her father was arguably the king - but cooler, more ironic and enigmatic, influenced by the staccato rhythms and experimentalism of music video.
film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1061714,00.html   (1641 words)

  
  Sofia Coppola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coppola is the daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola, sister of Roman Coppola, niece of Talia Shire and a cousin of Nicolas Cage, Jason Schwartzman and Robert Schwartzman.
Coppola's career in film began early, as she appeared as an infant or a child extra in several of her father's films.
Coppola was married to director Spike Jonze from 1999 to 2003.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sofia_Coppola   (705 words)

  
 Sofia Coppola News
A s the princess of a filmmaking dynasty, Sofia Coppola grew up steeped-or perhaps I should say fermented-in the culture of movies, but the ones she writes and directs don't look or sound like anyone else's.
Sofia Coppola's queens-just-wanna-have-fun version of 'Marie Antoinette,' which stars Kirsten Dunst and features the Bow Wow Wow version of 'I...
The British came to the rescue of Sofia Coppola, the Oscar-winning director, after French critics and writers booed and hissed her revisionist Hollywood version of the early life of Marie Antoinette at the...
www.topix.net /who/sofia-coppola   (674 words)

  
 Sofia Coppola - Biography - Moviefone
Coppola continued to pop up in her father's films in the early '80s and even ventured outside of the clan for a spot in 1987's Anna.
Sofia was swiftly cast in the role of Mary Corleone, and rumors regarding her acting chops -- or lack thereof -- began to swirl before she even shot a scene.
Coppola took a bold and risky roll of the dice when she opted to relay the historical tale of Antoinette as a story of freewheeling youth (Variety terms it a film "about a girl who would just rather have fun"), laden with a contemporary alternative and post-punk soundtrack.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/sofia-coppola/85872/biography   (1300 words)

  
 AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Sofia Coppola   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
As Sofia Coppola matured and entered her teens and early twenties, however, it would be screenwriting and directing, and not acting, that would most pique her interests.
And though it is still relatively early in her career, Coppola has already stepped out of her father's considerable shadow, creating lauded films that highight a visual style and storytelling sensibility that are unique, ambitious and preternaturally wise.
Sofia Coppola was born on May 12, 1971, in New York City, during the production of her father's celebrated gangster epic The Godfather.
www.amctv.com /person/detail?CID=20646-1-EST   (360 words)

  
 Reel.com: Sofia Coppola Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Though she's part of a formidable filmmaking family that includes father Francis Ford Coppola, husband Spike Jonze, and cousin Nicolas Cage, the 27-year-old actress and designer didn't initially know that her adaptation would become a feature film — or that she would be at its helm.
Four years later, Coppola is making her directing debut with The Virgin Suicides, a catastrophic fairy tale about the Lisbon sisters, five girls growing up in suburban '70s America.
Coppola's famous father may be on board as a producer, but this is Sofia's pet project all the way, a dreamy and ominous vision of adolescence gone awry, starring Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Kathleen Turner and James Woods.
www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/coppola   (934 words)

  
 Sofia Coppola Information
Coppola is the daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola, sister of Roman Coppola, niece of Talia Shire and a cousin of Nicolas Cage, Jason Schwartzman and Robert Schwartzman.
Coppola was married to director Spike Jonze from 1999 to 2003.
Coppola's career in film began early, as she appeared as an infant or a child extra in several of her father's films.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Sofia_Coppola   (527 words)

  
 The Coppola clan's best director? - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
When Sofia Coppola's directorial debut, "The Virgin Suicides," wowed critics and audiences in 2000, there was an unspoken sense of surprise.
As the daughter of one legendary filmmaker, the wife of another very talented one, Spike Jonze, the sister of up-and-coming director Roman Coppola, and the cousin of actors Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman, Sofia Coppola has had to claim a place of her own.
As slight and soft-spoken as her father is burly and boisterous, Sofia Coppola is beginning to cast a shadow of her own.
www.salon.com /ent/movies/int/2003/09/23/sofia_coppola/index_np.html   (756 words)

  
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Coppola continued to pop up in her father's films in the early 1980s and even ventured outside of the clan for a spot in 1987's Anna.
Coppola was undaunted when she found that the rights to the book were already secured by Muse Productions, whose script was much more violent and overtly sexual than hers.
In the summer of 1999, Coppola indoctrinated yet another filmmaker into her already-distinguished clan of actors, composers, and auteurs when she married director Spike Jonze, whom she met on the set of a Sonic Youth music video at the beginning of the decade.
www.1celebritysearch.com /celebs/sofia_coppola.htm   (782 words)

  
 Sofia Coppola reportedly expecting - Boston.com
Sofia Coppola, left, and French singer Thomas Mars arrive for the screening of the film "Marie-Antoinette," at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Wednesday, May 24, 2006.
Coppola is the daughter of Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola.
Coppola was married to director Spike Jonze for four years; she filed for divorce in 2003.
www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2006/05/31/sofia_coppola_reportedly_expecting   (246 words)

  
 IGN: Interview: Sofia Coppola
Coppola: Yeah, I mean it's not a documentary or a history lesson, but I wanted to be impressionistic and be as close to what it might have felt like to be there at the time.
Coppola: To me it was important to keep the focus on the main characters, the acting and the emotions, and not just get carried away with all of the grandeur.
Coppola: Yeah, well, for me it was just enjoyable for me to watch it with the audience here because people laughed at the parts that I think are funny and the audience just seemed to go with it, where at Cannes it felt more tense and people weren't reacting in the scenes or were laughing.
movies.ign.com /articles/739/739308p1.html   (1449 words)

  
 Sofia Coppola: Hollywood Actress Biography
Sofia Carmina Coppola was born on May 14, 1971 and began her career in the movie industry before she had learned how to speak, thanks largely to her father, director Francis Ford Coppola.
Sofia was given an un-credited role in The Godfather (1972) which was directed by her father, as the Christened baby boy.
Sofia’s first efforts as a director proved to be fruitful for her.
www.yuddy.com /articles/actress/sofia-coppola.html   (486 words)

  
 CBC.ca Arts - Sofia Coppola has first baby, a girl
The baby was born Tuesday in Paris to Coppola and her boyfriend, Thomas Mars, singer for the French rock band Phoenix.
Coppola, 35, won a best screenplay Oscar for Lost in Translation and was director of The Virgin Suicides and recently, Marie Antoinette.
Coppola was married to director Spike Jonze for four years but the pair divorced in 2003.
www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/11/29/coppola-baby.html   (1074 words)

  
 Sofia Coppola | Review | The Observer
As her new movie, Marie Antoinette, is released, Sofia Coppola talks to Sean O'Hagan about the challenge of costume drama, the family dynasty -and her latest fan, Harold Pinter.
Sofia Coppola could easily be a character in one of her own films, a day-dreamy, slightly disconnected but immaculately stylish waif who seems all at sea in a world of extraordinary privilege.
The young Sofia Coppola was that very girl, and the world she inhabited in her formative years, though gilded, could have suffocated a lesser talent.
observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1889941,00.html   (2340 words)

  
 Q&A: Sofia Coppola
25, 2006 12:00 AM CANNES - Sofia Coppola is back in the Cannes limelight after debuting her first feature, "The Virgin Suicides," at the Directors' Fortnight in 1999.
With the worldwide accolades for 2003's "Lost in Translation," Coppola clearly has stepped out of the shadow of her famed filmmaker father, Francis Ford Coppola.
Director Sofia Coppola arrives for the screening of the film Volver, at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, France,.
www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0525coppola0525qa.html   (972 words)

  
 Lost and Found Sound: Sofia Coppola at Age 5
Sofia Coppola won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Lost in Translation," which she wrote and directed.
Coppola is being interviewed by her father, Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola, who asks his daughter to talk to her future adult self.
Sofia, who is up for two awards, is the first American woman ever nominated for a best-director Oscar, for her film Lost in Translation.
www.npr.org /programs/lnfsound/stories/040227.sofiacoppola.html   (169 words)

  
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Sofia Coppola’s impressive first film The Virgin Suicides was extremely well-received by both critics and audiences, meaning that great things were expected of her second film.
Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation" is about the grace and human connection that can happen in limbo, and the film's soundtrack similarly finds beauty in stasis.
Coppola is now one of only three women (and the first American) ever to have received a Best Director nomination, following Italian director Lina Wertmuller in 1977, and New Zealand director Jane Campion in 1994.
www.lycos.com /info/sofia-coppola--lost-in-translation.html   (507 words)

  
 Sofia Coppola Photos - Sofia Coppola News - Sofia Coppola Information
Sofia's older brother Gio was killed in an boating accident when she was 15.
Sofia: (on the birth of her daughter) I’m so excited to have a girl.
Sofia: I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.
www.tv.com /sofia-coppola/person/176305/summary.html   (330 words)

  
 Sofia Coppola Pictures, Sofia Coppola Photo Gallery and Biography - Celebrity Pictures by WireImage.com
Daughter of the great Francis Ford Coppola and the first American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar, Sofia Coppola has emerged as one of the most popular of a new generation of brand-name writer-directors.
Coppola was born on May 14, 1971 in New York City into one of the most prominent showbiz families in history.
In addition to her legendary father, Sofia is a niece of Talia Shire and a cousin of Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman, who stars in her latest filmMarie-Antoinette”.
www.wireimage.com /Celebrities/Sofia-Coppola   (892 words)

  
 SPLICEDwire | Sofia Coppola feature (2000)
Having spent large chunks of her life around her father's movie sets, Sofia Coppola dove into "The Virgin Suicides" -- her first feature film as a writer and director -- with an uncommonly encompassing vision.
After "a million" unsatisfactory auditions, Coppola's mind kept drifting back to the unaffected and wholesomely magnetic Kirsten Dunst ("Dick," "Drop Dead Gorgeous"), whose intrinsic understanding of her sweetness and budding sexuality is exactly what Lux was all about.
Coppola also landed James Woods and Kathleen Turner to give lovingly autocratic and subtly sympathetic performances as the girls' parents, and cast aging stallion Michael Paré to play an adult version of Trip Fontaine, the GTO-driving neighborhood rebel dreamboat who has never been able to shake his dreams of Lux.
www.splicedonline.com /00features/scoppola.html   (821 words)

  
 A can, and a plan, for this sparkling wine - Food Inc. - MSNBC.com
Sofia blanc de blancs, made by Niebaum-Coppola Winery, will be packaged in individual-serving cans, with their own straws, and sold in four-packs.  The hope is to appeal to younger drinkers, especially clubgoers.
Coppola wanted to sell a split of Sofia, but couldn't find anyone to package it in small bottles with corks of the same quality as their full-sized offering, which has been bottled since at least 1999.
Unlike the drier French offerings, Coppola's wine is blended from the drier pinot blanc and sauvignon blanc grapes as well as 8 percent muscat, which gives it subtle, sweet overtones that may sit more comfortably on the palates of its target audience.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5114468   (729 words)

  
 CNN.com - Daughter of movie legend finds own way - Feb. 26, 2004
In person, Sofia Coppola is as polite, pensive and unpolished as the lonely American played by Scarlett Johansson in "Lost in Translation," who strikes up a reluctantly platonic romance with an older fellow stranger -- the aging, dejected actor played by Murray.
While Coppola acknowledged that real people and events are the genesis for some of her story ideas, she said most of what's onscreen is from her imagination.
Sofia says she was inspired by her famous father, director Francis Ford Coppola.
www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/26/sprj.aa04.sofia.coppola.ap/index.html   (1034 words)

  
 Film review: Marie Antoinette, by Sofia Coppola - Our Adventrous Song   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Sofia Coppola’s playful, punky biopic of Marie Antoinette isn’t what we’ve come to expect from history, even Hollywood history.
Coppola does this kind of thing better than anybody, and is arguably the only director who could pull it off.
She’s also perhaps the only one who could use a soundtrack of eighties alternative rock (by the logic that it’s what she was listening to when she was a teenager) and for it not to seem crass or wildly inappropriate.
blog.sonandfoe.com /film-review-marie-antoinette-by-sofia-coppola   (624 words)

  
 Sofia Coppola Pictures, Biography, Filmography, Awards, Wallpapers
Next, Coppola took a supporting role as the younger sister of Kathleen Turner's title character in the 1986 comedy "Peggy Sue Got Married".
And though it is still relatively early in her career, Coppola has already stepped out of her father's considerable shadow, creating lauded films that highight a visual style and storytelling sensibility that are unique, ambitious and preternaturally wise.
Coppola began to broaden her range of behind the scenes work, beginning with the 28-minute short "Bed, Bath and Beyond" (shot on video), which she edited and co-directed along with Ione Skye and Andrew Durham.
www.starglimpse.com /celebs/pages/sofia_coppola/sofia_coppola.shtml   (433 words)

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