AWFJ Women On Film – Sofia Coppola Checkes into the Movie Hotel – Carrie Rickey Comments
Sofia Coppola, who won a screenwriting Oscar for “Lost in Translation,” her portrait of Americans adrift at Tokyo’s Park Hyatt, took top honors last week at the Venice Film Festival for “Somewhere,” her portrait of an estranged father and daughter who reunite at Hollywood’s storied Chateau Marmont. Coppola’s sense of the hotel as a scene of personal transformation is the opposite of that in William Wyler’s “Dodworth,” which suggests that people stay the same despite the change of scene. Read more>>