Jeffrey Eugenides on THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
The Virgin Suicides • 15m
“The Virgin Suicides” was Jeffrey Eugenides’s debut novel, and Sofia Coppola adapted it to the screen for her debut feature film. In the following interview, produced in 2018, Eugenides talks about his inspiration for the book, being on set during the film’s production, and what Coppola brought to the story of the Lisbon sisters.
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Making of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
While Sofia Coppola directed her first feature, her mother, the artist and filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, was there to document the experience. Presented here, that making-of video features interviews with both Sofia and Eleanor; actors Kirsten Dunst, Scott Glenn, Josh Hartnett, Kathleen Turner, and ...
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Strange Magic
In the following program, produced in 2018, writer and Rookie editor in chief Tavi Gevinson explores THE VIRGIN SUICIDES through the lens of adolescence, suicide, and memory. It features Gevinson’s own writing and imagery from a fanzine she made about Sofia Coppola’s movie in 2012.
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Lick the Star
Directed by Sofia Coppola • 1998 • United States
Sofia Coppola made the following 16 mm short film in 1998, the same year she began production on THE VIRGIN SUICIDES.
