Making of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
The Virgin Suicides • 23m
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 James Woods; author Jeffrey Eugenides; Francis Ford Coppola; and others from the cast and crew.
Up Next in The Virgin Suicides
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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.
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Playground Love
Sofia Coppola commissioned Air to score THE VIRGIN SUICIDES. This video for “Playground Love,” one of the songs the band wrote for the film, was directed by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola.
