Somewhere (sofia coppola)

[RegularKarate]

Yeah, I don't get all the love here.

Granted, I'll see this and it looks OKAY, but that's it.  It's so fucking generic indie looking.  Shots of troubled people looking out the windows of airplanes... people having fun with children set to hip music... where is anything new or super-interesting other than the very beginning with the plaster mask?

[Pas]

hey!!, i'm into academy award winning female screenwriters. AND i have a boot fetish. you're just feeding the monster there, pas.

Haha fair enough. But I know that secretly, you just want to get with her to pitch your street gangs script to her father. Ever since you seen the Outsiders, it's been your machiavelian plan.

[Fernando]

im surprise too by all the love this is getting, and I love sofcop but this just looks like it could be sofia's elizabethtown.

[Gold Trumpet]

It looks better than Lost in Translation. Judging by the few shots, maybe Sofia Coppola will try to be less of an auteur and more of a communicator for the themes in the story. Trailers are nothing to judge from, but when I saw the LiT trailer, I remember how hard the filmmaking was trying to lift a simple story and make it feel like something more. This seems a lot more relaxed so I am thinking the story could stand out a little more and in turn, I think I would like the film more.

[Pozer]

why has no one mentioned that this is the worst title of the century?

could have at least called it Sumwhere.

[pete]

never liked any of her movies or saw anything special about them, but ellie fanning is the shit.

[Pas]

but ellie fanning is the shit.

Haha marque that

[tpfkabi]

anyone here seen Life Without Zoe from New York Stories?

it also deals with the wealthy daughter, absentee dad theme.

[MacGuffin]

Media pays for Coppola's satire
Money comes for 'Somewhere'
Source: Variety

The legendary Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles plays a big part in Sofia Coppola's father-daughter drama "Somewhere," which world preems on the Lido today.

But Italy's lesser-known Telegatti TV prizes, held in Milan and produced by Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset, are also featured in her pic, which takes shots at tabloid life. And the Telegatti are certainly somewhat satirized.

This did not pose a problem when Coppola turned to Mediaset/Medusa for financing.

"We definitely have a playful look at the Telegatti," she said in an interview before the "Somewhere" screening in Venice.

"Then we went and asked that company for financing, and we were glad that they would help us make the film," she said. "We weren't trying to make a comment about Italian showbusiness; the idea was to show that everywhere, wherever you go, it's the same quirky entertainment world."

Just like Coppola's previous feature films -- including "Lost in Translation" - -- "Somewhere," which has an $8 million budget, was partly financed internationally.

"I've worked with Paul Rassam at Pathe and Japan's Tohokushinsha starting with 'The Virgin Suicides' in 1999 and through my relationship with them I've been able to have total creative control," Coppola said.

Focus Features is expected to release "Somewhere" Stateside in December.

As for the film's artistic inception, Coppola started thinking about "Somewhere" while she was living in France and "once in a while a friend would bring in an American tabloid, like 'U.S. Weekly' or something like that.

"I wanted to do a portrait of a kind of L.A. culture nowadays," she said.

"I've always loved movies that were set in L.A., so it started with that, and this character (Johnny, played by Stephen Dorff) staying at the Chateau Marmont.

"Then his daughter came into the story (Cleo, played by Elle Fanning) and with that I put in memories of trips with my dad, because I remember that at that age it was fun to walk into these kind of adult worlds that kids don't usually see."

Francis Ford Coppola, who is in California at the moment, will not be making the trek to the Lido for the preem.

"Somewhere" is also the first film for Sophia Coppola after becoming a mother.

"I wrote it after my daughter (Romy) was born so I was thinking about what impact that made on me, and how that affects you. That's definitely how the daughter came into the story."

[jerome]

Coppola wins Venice filmfest's Golden Lion for 'Somewhere'
Source: The Sidney Morning Herald

US director Sofia Coppola on Saturday won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for "Somewhere", a father-daughter drama set in the lonely world of Hollywood moviemaking.

"From that first enchanted screening it grew and grew in our hearts, in our minds, in our affections," said jury president Quentin Tarantino, Coppola's former boyfriend, as he announced the top prize, adding that the decision had been unanimous.

The Silver Lion for best director went to Alex de la Iglesia of Spain for his dark comedy "A Sad Trumpet Ballad", a love triangle in a zany circus setting which the director said was an attempt to "exorcise" the enduring pain of the Spanish Civil War.
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Jerzy Skolimowski's "Essential Killing" about an American Taliban who is captured in Afghanistan, "rendered" to Poland, then escapes into an endurance test in snowy mountains, won the special jury prize as well as a best actor award for Vincent Gallo.

Tarantino also announced a "Special Lion" for cult director Monte Hellman, who was in Venice with "Road to Nowhere", a complex romantic noir thriller.

The veteran US director, 78, was the executive director of Tarantino's debut film, the 1992 crime flick "Reservoir Dogs".

"This director is both a great cinematic artist and a minimalist poet," Tarantino said of Hellman. "His work was an inspiration to this jury and it is our honour to honour him."

The jury at the world's oldest film festival also included fellow directors Arnaud Desplechin of France, Guillermo Arriaga of Mexico and Italian Gabriele Salvatores.

"Somewhere", which reflects the peculiar desolation of the Hollywood lifestyle, is about A-list actor Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) and his daughter Cleo (12-year-old Elle Fanning), adrift in the lonely world of Hollywood moviemaking.

"I try to put myself in all the characters that I write," the 39-year-old Oscar winner for "Lost in Translation" told a news conference after accepting the award.

Among the people she thanked was her father Francis Ford Coppola, "for teaching me".

Iglesia, 44, said ahead of the screening of "A Sad Trumpet Ballad" that it was "an exorcism of anguish through humour, irony, comedy mixed with the noir genre so everything can have a proper burial."

The Spanish director, whose 1995 horror comedy "The Day of the Beast" won cult status in his homeland, added: "This is a love story, a crazy, ruthless, wild kind of love. The anxiety and the search for revenge lead to the destruction of the object of love."

On Saturday he said: "The trick is how best to mix the elements."

An award for best photography went to Mikhail Krichman in the film "Silent Souls" by Russia's Aleksei Fedorchenko, the tender story of a member of Russia's vanished Merya minority who drives thousands of miles to bury his wife in a sacred lake according to ancient pagan rituals.

The visual and lyrical feast for the senses paints a compelling portrait of a people long ago assimilated into Russia's Slavic mainstream who nevertheless retain their myths and traditions.

Ariane Labed of France won a best actress award for her role in the experimental film "Attenberg" by Athina Rachel Tsangari of Greece.

Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" garnered the Marcello Mastroianni prize for best young actress for the performance of Mila Kunis, 27, the duplicitous friend of an ambitious but psychologically tormented prima ballerina played by Natalie Portman.

Twenty-four films competed in the Mostra, which screened 79 full-length world premieres from 34 countries all together over 11 days.

[Stefen]

Huge win for women filmmakers. Really happy about this.

[matt35mm]

I didn't even think of that until you brought it up, you sexist.

[Stefen]

I'm not. My mothers a woman.

[children with angels]

To continue the conventionalised discourse further, I think we now require a litany of "Yo' mama" jokes...

[Pozer]

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