[ Eleanor Jesse Neil was a fledgling art director when she met Francis Ford Coppola on the set of 1962’s Dementia 13, a low-budget horror picture that was one of the first features directed by the man. She was a couple of years older than the brash, ambitious, practically larger-than-life filmmaker who valued family nearly … Read more
[ To outsiders, Eleanor Coppola, who died Friday at age 87, presented as soft spoken and unassuming, yet as someone who always understood exactly what was going on. When I first met her she was playing the role of the perfect ’60s “hippie chick” who hung with young filmmakers, tolerated their ego trips but also … Read more
[ Few followers of cinema could dispute the influence of Francis Ford Coppola, the director of such cinematic masterworks as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. But when Eleanor Coppola, who sadly passed away yesterday, set her camera on the action behind the scenes of Apocalypse Now, she would lay the foundation for a film that … Read more
[ NEW DELHI: Sofia Coppola’s latest directorial film “Priscilla” will release on MUBI in India on March 1, the global film distributor and streamer announced on Wednesday. Also written and produced by Coppola, the biographical drama follows the life of actor-entrepreneur Priscilla Presley (Cailee Spaeny) and her relationship with singer Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi). It … Read more
[ Priscilla director Sofia Coppola says that, despite her plaudits and hit rate at the box office, she continues to fight for “a tiny fraction” of the money her male counterparts have to work with. Coppola, who has an Oscar to her name for Best Screenplay for her 2002 movie Lost in Translation, told BBC … Read more
[ Express News Service In her latest feature, Priscilla, Sofia Coppola takes on one of the most complex true love stories that history bore witness to, between a musical legend (Jacob Elordi as Elvis Presley) battling his inner demons and a young woman (Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley) discovering the overwhelming high of first love … Read more
[ Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Sofia Coppola’s biopic Priscilla. Based on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me co-authored by Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon, the script was adapted by Coppola who also directed. The story begins when teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis at a party and the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar … Read more
[ By PTI NEW DELHI: With Francis Ford Coppola as her father, Sofia Coppola says she grew up with the awareness of fame and the different facets of a life that looks like a fantasy from the outside, the struggles of ‘human reality’ a theme she has often tackled in her films, including in her latest … Read more
[ If you’re looking to catch up on 2023 films that you missed, you should know that Priscilla is releasing on digital this weekend, after seven weeks in theaters. Written and directed by Sofia Coppola, this critically acclaimed biopic is based on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley, aka the woman who … Read more
[ By PTI MUMBAI: Global film distributor MUBI and multiplex chain PVR INOX Pictures on Thursday announced that Sofia Coppola’s new film ‘Priscilla’ will be released in theatres on December 15. Also written and produced by Coppola, the upcoming biographical drama follows the life of actor-entrepreneur Priscilla Presley (Cailee Spaeny) and her relationship with singer Elvis … Read more
