She may have had it easy getting her foot in the door, but it’s hard to deny Sofia Coppola began her directing career in an unenviable position.When she made her first film “The Virgin Suicides” in 1999, Coppola was known for two things: being the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, one of the most esteemed directors in American film, and her notoriously wooden performance at age 18 in “The Godfather Part III.” Coppola was a last-minute replacement for the film after original star Winona Ryder dropped out, and later said she had little interest in acting, but getting branded the kid who ruined the final “Godfather” movie (or at least didn’t make it any better) isn’t a great reputation to have when you’re starting out.So it’s all the more impressive how thoroughly Coppola has transcended that youthful blip and managed to overcome the shadow of…
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