Celebrating Women in Film
From Ava DuVernay to Chloe Zhao
Come celebrate women filmmakers from June 11 to July 11 with Lewton Bus!
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Tag Archives: Sofia Coppola
Things We’re Digging This Week – Week of 5/29/17
Wonderful women and a charming sitcom are what we're digging this week. Also pups.
Each week the Lewton Bus gang will get together and write up a brief account of something we’re digging hard on this week. What are you digging?
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Children of Chaos: Sofia Coppola’s Women
Sofia Coppola’s protagonists are free particles in search of orbits. Sometimes they discover new families, sometimes they live and die alone.
Note: I use the term “Coppola’s girls” and “Coppola’s women” somewhat interchangeably simply because her characters range in age from pubescent to young adult. Let’s start by shedding the shallow idea that Sofia Coppola’s cinema is a bored dissection of upper-class ennui. A popular refrain is that she shares with Wes Anderson a fascination with the restlessness of
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