Priscilla Presley’s iconic updo is hitting the screens in a fresh trailer for Sofia Coppola’s upcoming flick “Priscilla”.
15.09.2023 - 16:11 / variety.com
Jaden Thompson Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sofia Coppola and her longtime collaborator and costume designer Stacey Battat will receive the second annual Variety Creative Collaborators award at the Middleburg Film Festival in October. The award will honor their achievements together on films such as “The Bling Ring,” “The Beguiled,” “On the Rocks” and the upcoming A24 release “Priscilla.” Middleburg Film Festival executive director Susan Koch said, “We’re delighted that these two immensely talented women — director Sofia Coppola and her longtime costume designer, Stacey Battat — will be receiving Variety’s Creative Collaborators Award and presenting ‘Priscilla’ at this year’s festival.
Together, they have crafted an unforgettable on-screen experience.” The conversation with Coppola and Battat will be held on Oct. 20 and moderated by Variety senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay.
The talk will serve as both a career retrospective highlighting their previous work and a preview of their partnership on “Priscilla.” “What an honor to celebrate the collaboration between these two incredible women at the Middleburg Film Festival. Sofia Coppola’s films are filled with characters who express themselves through costume,” Tangcay said.
“From the pastel gowns of ‘The Beguiled’ to the sought-after dazzling looks of ‘The Bling Ring,’ Coppola trusted costume designer Stacey Battat to bring her vision to life through clothing. I’m so excited to cover their friendship and relationship over the years of working together, they are creative collaborators.” Tangcay added, “And we get to discuss their latest, ‘Priscilla.’ It really is going to be a gift to celebrate and present them with this award.” The festival’s slate this year
.Priscilla Presley’s iconic updo is hitting the screens in a fresh trailer for Sofia Coppola’s upcoming flick “Priscilla”.
There has never been a more obsessed-over American pop icon than Elvis Presley, right? So what does Sofia Coppola do as a kind of palate cleanser to the pop extravaganza of Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis”? Give space, time, and breathing room to tell the story of his overlooked and overshadowed wife, Priscilla Beaulieu, aka Priscilla Presley. READ MORE: ‘Priscilla’ Review: Sofia Coppola’s Understated Biopic Lets Us Draw Our Own Conclusions [Venice] With films like “Marie Antoinette” and “Lost In Translation,” Coppola has already excelled at telling girlhood stories of teenage alienation, and her latest film, “Priscilla,” which debuted at the Venice Film Festival earlier this fall and now makes its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival, looks as if it will do the same.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Sofia Coppola told the Wall Street Journal that her “Priscilla” budget was so “strained” at times that she thought of raffling off a pickleball game with her star Jacob Elordi in order to raise funds for additional shooting days. “Euphoria” alum Elordi plays Elvis Presley in the film opposite Cailee Spaeny in the title role. Spaeny won best actress honors at the Venice Film Festival for her performance.
Kirsten Dunst had a little hand in casting Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla.
The 61stNew York Film Festival opens Friday on a high note, with advance sales of passes and tickets at kickoff up 50% from last year, which was a record-breaking fest. It’s also a day of heavy rains and flooding in New York City.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter As New York Film Festival’s artistic director, Dennis Lim has become adept at multitasking. “Sometimes, I have to introduce one film and then run across the street to moderate a Q&A for different film,” he says. “If I have an hour or two free, I will sneak into a cinema and watch something as a way to hide out.” This year, he’ll be bouncing around Manhattan’s Upper West Side to host some of the buzziest movies from Cannes and Venice, like Todd Haynes’ soapy romantic drama “May December,” Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro” and Sofia Coppola’s “Elvis and “Me” adaptation “Priscilla.” NYFF will also showcase the world premiere of Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s genre-defying series “The Curse” and the Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal-led sci-fi story “Foe.” Ahead of the 61st edition, which takes place from Sept.
“A lot of very impressive people have led this festival and what connects them is a love for movies and culture and what that can achieve,” Kristy Matheson told Deadline of her new job as Director of the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival.
Sofia Coppola drew from her own experiences in telling the story of Priscilla Presley.
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Sofia Coppola was joined by so many of her celebrity friends to celebrate the launch of her first book, “Sofia Coppola Archive: 1999-2023.”
Her, the sci-fi romantic drama written and directed by her ex-husband Spike Jonze.Coppola discussed Jonze’s 2013 film during an interview with Rolling Stone, where she noted the comparisons with her 2003 film Lost In Translation. Both films are said to have been partly inspired by the couple’s divorce in 2003.Speaking about Her, Coppola said: “I never saw it! From the trailer, it looks the same too.
Film anniversaries are a great way to make someone feel old. Has it really been 20 years since Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation?” Apparently so.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director 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 dissolution of her marriage to fellow director Spike Jonze as inspiration for the film, which follows a college graduate (Scarlett Johansson) who accompanies her celebrity photographer boyfriend (Giovanni Ribisi) on a trip to Tokyo. While he’s out flirting with a Hollywood actress (Anna Farris), she befriends a faded movie star (Bill Murray) who’s in town to shoot a commercial. Since the film premiered in 2023, viewers have associated Johansson’s character with Coppola and Ribisi’s with Jonze.
Film anniversaries are a great way to make someone feel old. Has it really been 20 years since Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation?” Apparently so.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Paris-based leading distribution company ARP Selection has bought a pair of U.S. indie gems from the fall festival circuit, Shane Atkinson’s feature debut “LaRoy” and Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla.” “LaRoy,” a neo-noir Western comedy with Coen brothers influences, just won three major prizes at the Deauville Film Festival, including the Grand Prize, Audience Award and Critics Prize; while “Priscilla” world premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won best actress for Cailee Spaeny.
Sofia Coppola’s new film about Priscilla Presley is earning rave reviews.
The tears flowed for Priscilla Presley following the world premiere of Sofia Coppola’s biopic, “Priscilla”, in Venice on Monday.
Total admissions to theatres at this year’s Venice Film Festival have hit 114,851, up 18% on last year, according to figures published by the Biennale this week, as the film event passes the midway point.
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla got a rousing response at its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Monday evening. The pic, a biopic of Priscilla Presley, who was in attendance for the move based on the memoir she co-authored, scored a 7-minute, 45-second ovation.
Priscilla Presley was all shook up at the Venice Film Festival premiere of “Priscilla.” The subject of Sofia Coppola’s drama wiped away tears from her face on Monday night in Italy as the audience on the Lido exploded in a 7-minute standing ovation for the A24 indie film. Coppola and Presley attended the premiere alongside Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi, who star as Priscilla and Elvis. The actors were granted a SAG-AFTRA waiver to promote the film amid the strike.