Crimewave summer continues with Sofia Coppola’s film about celebrity thieves! We discuss the movie in the context of Coppola’s filmography, her artistic motivations and the creative aspirations of the criminals the movie is about, criminal deniability, and, of course, Leslie Mann! It’s all fun and games until someone gets a reality tv show. You canContinue reading “THE BLING RING (2013)”
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THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999)
It’s just us for our one hundredth episode talking Sophia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides! We hit all the good stuff: suburban malaise, fear, control, parenting, childhood, Trip Fontaine’s hair, memory, privacy, the joys of human connection, first loves, and Kathleen Turner! Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a 13-year-old girl. Cecilia
BONUS EPISODE: ON THE ROCKS (2020)
The cows watched Sofia Coppola’s latest and came to very different conclusions, which necessitated an emergency episode to sort it all out. Join us for a maybe autobiographical discussion of the complexities of modern parenting, gendered divisions of cognitive labor, and not losing yourself when asked to shoulder the emotional labor of your friends andContinue reading “BONUS EPISODE: ON THE ROCKS (2020)”
Cows in the Field 