Tag: Lost in Translation
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What Netflix’s ‘Live to 100’ Gets Right (& Wrong) About Immortality
About 50 floors up, in Tokyo’s Park Hyatt’s New York Bar — the very bar where Scarlett Johansson’s and Bill Murray’s characters first meet in Lost in Translation — is where I found myself one August night. The Park Hyatt, one of the best hotels in the city, was out of my price range as…
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10 Worst Movies of 2003, Ranked
2003 was a good year to be a cinephile, demonstrated alone by the fact that the year’s biggest and best release was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. That third part of an iconic trilogy was a huge critical and box office success, and also happened to win 11 Oscars, including…
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Sofia Coppola: ‘I’m Not Going to Think About’ Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray’s Age Gap in ‘Lost in Translation’
Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation” is a film that greatly benefitted from being released before online discourse consumed pop culture. The arthouse classic, which offers a nuanced depiction of a fleeting connection between two lonely travelers (played by Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson), could have easily been consumed by debates about the ethics of age…
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Her inside: Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze and the perils of fictionalising your ex
The director was ‘scolded’ for creating a character based on her former husband – but reveals she hasn’t seen the film in which he supposedly modelled a character on herIt is the 20th anniversary of Lost in Translation. If you look online, you’ll notice that most of the commemoratory coverage has tended to revolve around…
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Sofia Coppola Got ‘Scolded’ at ‘Lost in Translation’ Premiere by Spike Jonze’s Friend Michel Gondry, Who ‘Apologized’; She’s Never Watched ‘Her’
Fresh off the world premiere of her last directorial effort, “Priscilla,” at the Venice Film Festival (where star Cailee Spaeny won best actress), Sofia Coppola joined Rolling Stone to reflect on the 20th anniversary of her beloved “Lost in Translation.”Coppola, whose script for “Lost in Translation” won the Oscar for original screenplay, partly used the…
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Sofia Coppola Hasn’t Seen Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’: ‘I Don’t Know If I Want to See Rooney Mara as Me’
Sofia Coppola has no desire to see “Her” written and directed by ex-husband Spike Jonze.For the 20th anniversary of “Lost in Translation” in a Rolling Stone interview, Coppola addressed Jonze’s 2013 film “Her” which is said to have been inspired by their 2003 divorce, the same year “Lost in Translation” was released. Both “Her” and…
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Behind the scenes with Sofia Coppola: memories from a life in film
The celebrated director looks back at her career, sharing the inspirations and experiences that shaped films from Lost in Translation to her forthcoming biopic, Priscilla. Words by Sofia Coppola, introduction by Kathryn BromwichThere is a particular aesthetic that runs through Sofia Coppola’s work, whether she is turning her gauzy, feminised lens on the southern gothic…
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‘Lost in Translation’: The True Story Behind Bill Murray’s Whiskey Ad
Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is one of the central characters in Lost in Translation, a man who was once a great actor and who perhaps still could have been if he didn’t trade his chance to perform in a play, for a million dollar commercial deal with Suntory Whiskey in Japan. Yes, Bob is plagued…
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Lost in Translation Ending Explained
Very rarely does an indie film convince large numbers of people to become online sleuths to figure out something that happens at the end of it. Sure, for science-fiction, horror, or other genre films, this kind of behavior is fairly commonplace, as those genres tend to attract obsessive and investigative types. But a low-key character…
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The Best Movies And TV Shows Coming To Netflix In August 2023
And somehow, it’s almost August. The summer is flying by, and that means fall will be here soon. And then winter. Ugh, I just got a chill. Well, let’s not dwell on the future! Let us embrace the present. Specifically, let us look at the new movies and TV shows coming to Netflix in August.…