Episode 28: Sofia Coppola

Blockbuster Film School

There have been lines of genetic art. Actors mostly, because it’s not that hard. Eat that actors! But how many masterful directors have had master director kids. Pretty much just one. Sophia Coppola stood in the shadow of not just her dad but maybe the most Hollywood royalty of the families and made some of the most unique and wild pieces of film art ever made. Also, she opens a movie on Scarlet Johannson’s butt. And it works. Alex and Nick talk about one of the great Gen X film autuers this week. Buckle up, film school it’s about to get “rob crappy celebrities and high school epic suicide” weird.