Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in <i>The Godfather</i> as an infant it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera helming her own adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's celebrated novel <i>The Virgin Suicides</i>. Following her debut Coppola was the third woman ever to be nominated for Best Director and became an Academy Award winner for Best Original Screenplay for her sophomore feature <i>Lost in Translation</i>. She has also been awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and Best Director at Cannes. <p/> In addition to her filmmaking Coppola is recognized as an influential tastemaker. She sequenced the so-called Tokyo dream pop of the <i>Lost in Translation</i> soundtrack like an album a success in its own right. Her third film <i>Marie Antoinette</i> further showcased Coppola's ear for the unexpected needle drop soundtracking the controversial queen's life with a series of New Romantic bangers popular during the director's adolescence. <p/> The conversations compiled within <i>Sofia Coppola: Interviews</i> mark the filmmaker's progression from dismissed dilettante to acclaimed auteur of among the most visually arresting melancholy and wryly funny films of the twenty-first century. Coppola discusses her approach to collaboration Bill Murray as muse and how <i>Purple Rain</i> blew her twelve-year-old mind. There are interviews from major publications but Coppola speaks with musician Kim Gordon for indie magazine <i>Bust</i> and Tavi Gevinson then-adolescent founder of online teen magazine <i>Rookie</i> as well. The volume also features a new and previously unpublished interview conducted with volume editor Amy N. Monaghan. To read these interviews is to witness Sofia Coppola coming into her own as a world-renowned artist.