With the beautiful collector’s book Sofia Coppola Archives (published by Mack Books), the American director offers us rare and generous access to her archives and memories of almost twenty-five years of cinema.
With Priscilla, her eighth feature film, just presented at the Venice Film Festival, Sofia Coppola opens up her personal archives to Mack Books, a publisher specialising in collector’s books. In the voluminous Sofia Coppola Archives (488 pages, €65), readers will discover hundreds of Sofia Coppola’s working documents and film memorabilia. Edited and annotated by the filmmaker herself, this art book explores, film by film, the world of the director of “Virgin Suicides” and “Lost in Translation”. We will discover flash photos of a shoot that looks like a night out with girlfriends, a few pages from a book highlighted by the director, letter and e-mail exchanges with Jeffrey Eugenides, scraps of screenplay, improbable photos from the Marie-Antoinette shoot (the Queen and King on motorcycles in the streets of Paris), various inspirations, album covers (Bow Wow Wow and, of course, Air), notes on luxury hotel letterheads, maps of Tokyo, magazine covers, costume tests, scraps of fabric, set ideas, the Vanity Fair article The Suspects Wore Louboutin, which inspired The Bling Ring, and the film’s clapperboard decorated with the Louis Vuitton monogram, several vintage editions of Thomas P. Cullinan’s “Les Proies”, cut-outs from the film’s cover. Cullinan, stage cut-outs, greeting cards, sketches, an idea for a title, a haircut or the Presley couple’s car. Or a touching letter from Coppola Sr. enclosing a good review (in capital letters) of “On The Rocks” in a San Francisco daily. In short, this is a must-have for all fans of Sofia Coppola’s cinema, giving the impression of having access to a secret box containing both the moodbooks and the memories of the most iconic of American independent filmmakers.
Archivede Sofia Coppola
Éditions Mack, septembre 2023
65,00 €
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