The worst … present I ever received

The worst … present I ever received
Once, about 30 years ago, I realized I had neglected to buy a present for my mother, minutes before I was supposed to give it to her. I searched my apartment for something, anything, that she hadn’t seen.
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‘Somewhere’ writer-director Sofia Coppola: I wanted a really short, sparse script
Coppola’s stated intention with such filmmaking sounds reasonable enough: “To see how simple you could make a movie.” Coppola’s stated intention with such filmmaking sounds reasonable enough: “To see how simple you could make a movie.”
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Western front
LOS ANGELES — It wasn’t the celluloid ghost of John Wayne that inspired the Coen brothers to go off into the dusty ravines and bleak prairie land of New Mexico to make “True Grit,” their first Western. No, this was a project with a storybook beginning.
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