The Bling Ring reaction: Cannes 2013
Sofia Coppola has made a career out of lensing lost souls blighted by ennui and emptiness, and her fifth film, The Bling Ring, spies the same subject from a different angle…
50 Best Indie Films
Lost In Translation (2003)
The Film: Jaded movie star Bob Harris (Bill Murray), stuck in Tokyo, strikes up an unlikely friendship with equally bored hipster Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson)
Indie Cred: Sofia Coppola’s swooning not-quite romance that defied occasional lapses in taste to become a modern love story. Also: brownie points for getting Kevin Shields off his arse to do the music.
If It Had Been A Blockbuster: We’d have heard Bob’s final words to Charlotte, and they’d be banal greeting card platitudes.
Best & Worst: Bill Murray
17) Best: Lost in Translation (2003)
Perfectly pairing the pathos with his trademark sarcastic humour, Murray’s performance in Lost in Translation saw him rewarded with an Oscar nomination. Still probably Sofia Coppola’s best movie, it’s a tale of loneliness and isolation that never becomes too downbeat.
Lost In Translation (2003)
Ghostbusters 3: Casting Call
1) Bill Murray as Peter Venkman
Why He’s Perfect: Perhaps more than any of the original cast, Bill Murray is the name most closely associated with Ghostbusters, which is why his periodic rejection of the idea of a third movie continually has fans wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth. World-weary, cynical, constantly chasing the ladies, Venkman is the ultimate ‘80s antihero, and probably Murray’s best-loved role. A Ghostbusters movie that doesn’t involve him in some capacity would be nigh-on unthinkable.
