Sofia Coppola's Priscilla channels the universal formative experiences of young women in biopic of Elvis Presley's bride
11 months, 1 week ago

Sofia Coppola's Priscilla channels the universal formative experiences of young women in biopic of Elvis Presley's bride

ABC  

With a portfolio that includes The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, the Bling Ring and Marie Antoinette, writer and director Sofia Coppola is known for skilfully cinematising girlhood and growing up. Director Sofia Coppola says she wanted to be true to Priscilla Presley's perspective. Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie Presley died January 12, 2023 from natural causes at the age of 54, and Coppola says, "I just wish she had seen it." Women in filmmaking On her next move, Coppola says she'd rather focus on smaller scale movies to make "exactly just what I want to make". "I think 'Oh it was hard for me' and I've made so many films — imagine what it's like if they're starting, but hopefully the next generation is more demanding."

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Priscilla is the big screen takedown of Elvis that he’s had coming for decades
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Priscilla is the big screen takedown of Elvis that he’s had coming for decades

The Independent  

If you come at the king, you’d better not miss. Elvis isn’t the focus of the film, which instead fixes its perspective to the young Priscilla Beaulieu, whom the singer woos, gaslights, mistreats and eventually marries, having met her as a 14-year-old. It might be a stretch to say that Priscilla depicts Elvis as a predator – though the fact …

Priscilla review: Sofia Coppola drama will be very uncomfortable viewing for Elvis fans
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Priscilla review: Sofia Coppola drama will be very uncomfortable viewing for Elvis fans

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Priscilla, Sofia Coppola’s telling of the courtship …

Cailee Spaeny on playing Priscilla Presley: ‘Their marriage was strange and shocking’
1 year ago

Cailee Spaeny on playing Priscilla Presley: ‘Their marriage was strange and shocking’

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Then we blinked and it was all over.” Not once did …

Priscilla review: Sofia Coppola's film slowly and surely ties a bowtie noose around your neck
1 year ago

Priscilla review: Sofia Coppola's film slowly and surely ties a bowtie noose around your neck

Hindustan Times  

In an exclusive interview with this writer, Sofia Coppola said her movie on Priscilla Presley is designed as a ‘doll stuck in a doghouse.’ Priscilla consistently feels like that – the girlhood of a teenager restricted by the palatial mansion of a grown-up man at the peak of his career. Cailee Spaeny plays Priscilla Presley in Sofia Coppola's movie Fairy …

How ‘Priscilla’ uncovers the vulnerable woman beneath the hairspray
1 year ago

How ‘Priscilla’ uncovers the vulnerable woman beneath the hairspray

LA Times  

“She was very kind but hesitant,” Oscar-winning writer-director-producer Sofia Coppola says of Priscilla Presley, recalling the first time the two discussed Coppola turning Presley’s 1985 bestselling biography, “Elvis and Me,” into the film “Priscilla.” “She’s very private and wasn’t looking to put this out right now. “She just said, ‘Make sure that the love is there between us.’ Because it …

Why Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla divided Elvis’s family
1 year, 1 month ago

Why Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla divided Elvis’s family

BBC  

Why Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla divided Elvis’s family A24 Priscilla With the news that Lisa Marie Presley objected to Sofia Coppola's new film, Nicholas Barber takes a look at the relationship at the centre of the film. It wasn't Coppola's job to elevate Elvis, but to bring him down to Earth as a flawed, complicated human being "As his daughter, I …

Priscilla Presley 'was very concerned about' her biopic but says director Sofia Coppola was 'right on' because they 'really connected'
1 year, 1 month ago

Priscilla Presley 'was very concerned about' her biopic but says director Sofia Coppola was 'right on' because they 'really connected'

Daily Mail  

Priscilla Presley was initially 'very concerned about' filmmaker Sofia Coppola writing and directing her newly-released biopic Priscilla, but she quickly gained her trust. 'She has such a big heart': Priscilla Presley was initially 'very concerned about' filmmaker Sofia Coppola writing and directing her newly-released biopic Priscilla, but she quickly gained her trust The 78-year-old ex-wife of Elvis Presley said at …

The story of Priscilla and Elvis Presley's relationship is being told in a new Sofia Coppola film. Here's what we know about it
1 year, 1 month ago

The story of Priscilla and Elvis Presley's relationship is being told in a new Sofia Coppola film. Here's what we know about it

ABC  

Many films and documentaries about music icon Elvis Presley have been made, but now his ex-wife Priscilla is in the spotlight. Lisa Marie Presley reportedly didn't like the script Variety magazine reported it had obtained emails between Coppola and Elvis's late daughter Lisa Marie Presley sent in September 2022, four months before her death. In a review for US broadcaster …

Sofia Coppola imagines Priscilla's teen years, living at Graceland with Elvis
1 year, 1 month ago

Sofia Coppola imagines Priscilla's teen years, living at Graceland with Elvis

NPR  

Sofia Coppola imagines Priscilla's teen years, living at Graceland with Elvis Enlarge this image toggle caption A24 A24 Sofia Coppola wanted to tell a different kind of Elvis story in her new film, Priscilla. Though Coppola knew Priscilla was 10 years younger than her husband, she never really understood what that age gap meant until she read Priscilla Presley's 1985 …

Lisa Marie Presley didn’t like the script of Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla,’ and she told her so
1 year, 1 month ago

Lisa Marie Presley didn’t like the script of Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla,’ and she told her so

LA Times  

Lisa Marie Presley, left, wrote several heated emails to Sofia Coppola, shown with Priscilla Presley, right, regarding the script of “Priscilla.” Critics are raving about Sofia Coppola’s latest film, “Priscilla,” based on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir, which documented her relationship with Elvis Presley. Lisa Marie’s emails, said to have been sent in September 2022, focused especially on how her parents’ …

Sofia Coppola turns her lens on an American icon: Priscilla Presley
1 year, 1 month ago

Sofia Coppola turns her lens on an American icon: Priscilla Presley

Associated Press  

In her 25 years of making films, Sofia Coppola has always found the poetry behind the headlines, the banality in the glamour, the soul in the superficial. In Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me,” Coppola saw something that was glamourous and wild, something that would provide an opportunity for beautiful filmmaking in a setting she had yet to explore …

Review: ‘Priscilla,’ Sofia Coppola’s best movie in years, shimmers with beauty and heartbreak
1 year, 1 month ago

Review: ‘Priscilla,’ Sofia Coppola’s best movie in years, shimmers with beauty and heartbreak

LA Times  

One of the first songs you hear in “Priscilla,” Sofia Coppola’s wistful dream of a movie about Priscilla Presley, is a cover of Frankie Avalon’s “Venus,” pouring from a snack bar jukebox in 1959. Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny in the movie “Elvis.” It’s hard not to get swept up alongside Priscilla, too, even as Coppola’s clear-eyed gaze keeps pulling …

Movie Review: Teen dreams and adult nightmares in Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’
1 year, 1 month ago

Movie Review: Teen dreams and adult nightmares in Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’

Associated Press  

Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s and early ’60s. Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” starring Cailee Spaeny, captures all the dreaminess, the absurdity and, finally, the nightmare of falling in love with Elvis. The swoony early scenes of Coppola’s film find a solitary Priscilla …

Priscilla Presley Defends 10-Year Age Gap With Elvis
1 year, 3 months ago

Priscilla Presley Defends 10-Year Age Gap With Elvis

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING With a new film about her life on the way, Priscilla Presley is clearing up some longstanding misconceptions about her relationship with her ex-husband, the late rock ’n’ roll legend Elvis Presley. Priscilla Presley appeared at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival Monday for the world premiere of “Priscilla,” directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Cailee Spaeny …

Venice Film Festival | Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’ gets 7-minute standing ovation
1 year, 3 months ago

Venice Film Festival | Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’ gets 7-minute standing ovation

The Hindu  

Sofia Coppola’s much-anticipated film, Priscilla, which delves into the life of Elvis Presley’s wife, got a seven-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival on Monday as Priscilla Presley, who attended the premiere, was visibly moved by the film and hugged Cailee Spaeny, the actor who plays her in the film. “When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a …

Priscilla first reviews: Sofia Coppola's film gets 7 min standing ovation at Venice Fest, glowing reviews
1 year, 3 months ago

Priscilla first reviews: Sofia Coppola's film gets 7 min standing ovation at Venice Fest, glowing reviews

Hindustan Times  

Sofia Coppola's Priscilla premiered at the 80th Venice Film Festival on Monday to a warm response. About Priscilla Sofia Coppola's film stars Cailee Spaeny as the teenage Priscilla Beaulieu and chronicles her whirlwind relationship with Elvis, whom she met as a 14-year-old. Rolling Stone also gave a glowing review of the film and said, "People may fault Coppola for dipping …

The Priscilla Effect: Sofia Coppola’s Film Gets 7-Minute Standing Ovation
1 year, 3 months ago

The Priscilla Effect: Sofia Coppola’s Film Gets 7-Minute Standing Ovation

News 18  

Priscilla, the biographical drama adapted from Priscilla Presley’s memoir, Elvis and Me, sheds a spotlight on her life journey. A visibly shaken Priscilla Presley wiped away tears during the 7-minute #Venezia80 standing ovation for Sofia Coppola’s #Priscilla. pic.twitter.com/tv1eJZQMFm— Ramin Setoodeh September 4, 2023 Ahead of the premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, the Priscilla team gathered for a press …

A 'haunting' biopic from Sofia Coppola
1 year, 3 months ago

A 'haunting' biopic from Sofia Coppola

BBC  

Priscilla review: Sofia Coppola has directed a 'sympathetic tribute' to Elvis's wife Philippe Le Sourd/A24 Sofia Coppola's "understated, non-judgemental portrait" of Elvis's wife Priscilla Presley is "quietly affecting", writes Nicholas Barber from the Venice Film Festival. Adapted from Priscilla Presley's memoir, Elvis and Me, it's written and directed by Sofia Coppola, a specialist in capturing the ennui of wealthy people …

Priscilla Presley “excited about interpretation” of her book by Sofia Coppola
1 year, 6 months ago

Priscilla Presley “excited about interpretation” of her book by Sofia Coppola

The Hindu  

Priscilla Presley has endorsed Sofia Coppola’s forthcoming film Priscilla, which is a biographical drama film based on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, reported People. On Thursday, the ex-wife of the late Elvis Presley shared the film’s poster on Instagram, saying, “I am excited about the interpretation of my book by the masterful Sofia Coppola. ”I’m sitting there watching this …

‘Priscilla’ trailer: Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny feature in Sofia Coppola’s Elvis Presley film
1 year, 6 months ago

‘Priscilla’ trailer: Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny feature in Sofia Coppola’s Elvis Presley film

The Hindu  

After hits like Marie Antoinette and The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola is taking the audience back in time yet again to narrate the story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley through the eyes of the latter. Featuring Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Beaulieu Presley and Jacob Elordi as Elvis, the film is based on Priscilla’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, Pricilla is …

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