Sofia Coppola’s Adventures in Moviegoing
11 Episodes
As the director of some of the most singular and stylish films of the last two decades—including LOST IN TRANSLATION, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES and THE BEGUILED—Sofia Coppola is perhaps unsurprisingly drawn to movies that feature strong auteur visions, a keen attention to atmosphere and mood, and a touch of cool. She sits down with Criterion president Peter Becker to discuss memorable viewing experiences—from falling in love with Jean-Luc Godard’s BREATHLESS at the age of twelve to discovering Rainer Werner Fassbinder deep cut FEAR OF FEAR during a recent retrospective—as well as the mesmerizing cinematic rhythms of Chantal Akerman, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Wong Kar-wai.
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16:12Episode 1Sofia Coppola in Conversation
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Sofia Coppola discusses growing up in a household of legendary cinephiles, the works that opened her eyes to the possibilities of moviemaking, and the films she wants to share with her own children.
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02:32Episode 2Sofia Coppola on LA NOTTE
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La notte
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Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1961 • Italy
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica VittiThis psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni’s follow-up to the epochal L’AVVENTURA. Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau star as a n...
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02:29Episode 4Sofia Coppola on JEANNE DIELMAN
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
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Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1975 • Belgium
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Jan DecorteA singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow, whose chores ...
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02:07Episode 6Sofia Coppola on FEAR OF FEAR
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1:28:28Episode 7Fear of Fear
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Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1975 • West Germany
Starring Margit Cartensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte MiraA woman in a stable-but-passionless marriage suddenly begins to lose her mind when she becomes pregnant with her second child.
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02:09Episode 8Sofia Coppola on STRANGER THAN PARADISE
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1:29:26Episode 9Stranger Than Paradise
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Directed by Jim Jarmusch • 1984 • United States, Germany
Starring John Lurie, Richard Edson, Eszter BalintWith this breakout film, Jim Jarmusch established himself as one of the most exciting voices in the burgeoning independent-film scene, a road-movie poet with an affinity for Americana at it...
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02:13Episode 10Sofia Coppola on IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
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1:39:06Episode 11In the Mood for Love
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Directed by Wong Kar Wai • 2000 • Hong Kong
Starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yukHong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery abo...
