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In this author interview, I speak with Suzanne Ferriss whose first book about Sofia Coppola The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity was published in February 2021 and she edited The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola, which was published in early 2023. She joins me today to talk about her latest book, Lost in Translation from BFI Film Classics about Coppola’s film that celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

Listen to hear about Suzanne’s approach to writing about Coppola’s work, the wealth of films she recommends, and thoughts on who might be a good fit to cast in Lost in Translation if it were made today.
 
Books mentioned in this episode include:

• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola edited by Suzanne Ferriss
• Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure by Anna Backman Rogers
• Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of Girlhood by Fiona Handyside
• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman

Films mentioned in this episode include:

• Virgin Suicides directed by Sofia Coppola
• An Affair to Remember directed by Leo McCarey
• Manny & Lo directed by Lisa Krueger
• Girl with a Pearl Earring directed by Peter Webber
• Asteroid City directed by Wes Anderson
• Groundhog Day directed by Harold Ramis
• Rushmore directed by Wes Anderson
• On the Rocks directed by Sofia Coppola
• Past Lives directed by Celine Song
• Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Parasite directed by Bong Joon-ho
• Somewhere directed by Sofia Coppola
• The Thin Man directed by W. S. Van Dyke
• Party Girl directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer
• Silver Linings Playbook directed by David O. Russell
• Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Grand Budapest Hotel directed by Wes Anderson
• The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick

John Kacere on Wikipedia, inspiration for the opening shot of Lost in Translation.

Video for Shawn Mendes's sons "Lost in Japan", inspired by Lost in Translation.