The Virgin Suicides - fetishising suicide for male fantasy?

Still Sofia's best movie.

One of the homecoming dates is Anakin Skywalker.

And James Woods is really good as the clueless, increasingly unhinged dad.

Agree it's her best. But then it's been diminishing returns from what I've seen (everything up to the Dorff one)

yep 100%, that's when i quit too.

The Criterion edition interviews are really good.

Definitely her best

That means you’ve missed both Bling Ring and The Beguiled! xps Both of which I liked.

Anyway I watched this for the first time last month and liked it too. I love the Dunst so much.

I only think of this film as a soundtrack

I liked the Bling Ring fine. I didn't see the Beguiled after all the PC whitewashing backlash but maybe it's still good, I should watch it before judging frankly.

I really like the Dorff movie (Somewhere).

Somewhere felt like such a whole lot of nothing to me that it scared me off Coppola long enough that I didn't even bother with The Bling Ring (I'll catch up with it eventually). I thought her version of The Beguiled was a lovely bore, probably due to the whitewashing--the Don Siegel film is no masterpiece, but it sure is thorny.

All of that said, her first three films remain as impressive a cinematic hat-trick as any that I can remember in my moviegoing lifetime.

As my sister said when I brought up the controversy of Coppola's Beguiled eliminating the enslaved characters from the original (which I haven't seen), "do you really want her trying to handle that?" Which I thought was fair. Certainly it's something of a failure to not be able to address race in your movie set in the danged Civil War South, but a better failure than trying and doing a bad job, in 2017.

Anyway I hope her next movie includes some of the weird stuff The Virgin Suicides has, like the vignetting, talking heads, anonymous cutaway characters, that bravura shit.

depends if Jeffrey Eugenides has another book?

Somewhere felt like such a whole lot of nothing to me

otm. I just couldn't find anything, anywhere in that movie

Eugenedies has like three or four other books, at least oneof them is amazing (middlesex) but she'd be the wrong director to adapt it