Oscar Watch: Costume Designer Stacey Battat on Creating the Cloistered Couture of The Beguiled
Costume designer Stacey Battat last worked with Sofia Coppola on The Bling Ring, which featured a gang of fame-obsessed teenagers in Los Angeles who use social media to track celebrities whereabouts, then rob their homes when they’re gone. For her latest collaboration with Coppola, Battat had to travel back in time some 150 years to ...
Cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd on Creating The Beguiled‘s Elegant Terror
Earlier this year, Sofia Coppola premiered her version of The Beguiled, an atmospheric Southern drama based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Thomas P. Cullinan. Set in a remote Virginia girls’ school during the Civil War, the story depicts the ill-starred arrival of a wounded Union solder, John McBurney (Colin Farrell), whose ...
The Beguiled Art Director Sets the Scene for Beauty and Terror
The dilapidated Civil War era girls’ school you see in the intriguing Sofia Coppola remake of The Beguiled is actually a pristinely manicured historic plantation in New Orleans. On seeing the film, you won’t even recognize that the house was also used in Beyonce’s Lemonade. Art Director Jennifer Dehghan and her team are responsible for ...
John Waters Interviews Sofia Coppola at the Provincetown Film Festival
Sofia Coppola is Hollywood royalty, an Oscar winner for Lost in Translation, and she has a highly-anticipated new film, The Beguiled, ready to hit theaters. But the soft-spoken director is known for being reticent in interviews. So it’s no wonder that the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) paired Coppola with renowned raconteur John Waters for ...
Sofia Copolla is Back with Civil War era Drama The Beguiled
Writer/director Sofia Coppola doesn’t retread the same ground from film to film. The young auteur has tackled 1suburban ennui in The Virgin Suicides, loneliness and marital strife in Lost in Translation, the doomed life of an 18th century Austrian duchess who becomes the Queen of France in Marie Antoinette and the criminal shenanigans of fame-obsessed ...
