Burning For Something with Celine Song & Sofia Coppola
The A24 Podcast
A24
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Topics covered include: seeing your first movie at the neighborhood theater, the pressures of live performance, the animal that is the audience, parallels between directing and motherhood, abandoning the miracle, autobiographical filmmaking, feeling like broccoli, the Pacific Ocean as the villain in Past Lives, Harry Styles fan-fiction, writing on planes, revisiting The Artist’s Way, avoiding the sophomore slump, Francis Ford Coppola’s directing advice, a shared love of Barry Lyndon and Miyazaki, taking the audience to Mars, and what genre they would like to explore next (sci-fi, westerns, horror!)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey and welcome back to the A24 podcast. For our first conversation of the year, |
| 0:10.5 | we brought together two recent A24 filmmakers, Sophia Copala and |
| 0:14.4 | Selene Song, whose debut feature Past Lives is now an Oscar nominee for Best Picture |
| 0:18.8 | and Best Original Screenplay. We hope you enjoy the episode. Stay till the end for a round of questions from our AAA24 members. |
| 0:27.2 | We should do the intro, yeah? Hi, I'm Sophia Coppola and this is Slene Song and this is the A24 podcast. Well I'm happy to see you and talk about movies. Do you feel like like enough time has passed after your movie that you can think about it or is that are you still tired of talking about it's been a whole year. |
| 0:46.1 | Yeah. Right? It's been a whole year. Come out a Sundance. If it was Sundance was world premiere last year. Oh, really? |
| 0:53.0 | So I went back? |
| 0:54.0 | One year ago or two years ago? |
| 0:55.0 | One year ago? |
| 0:56.0 | Really? |
| 0:57.0 | Oh my God. |
| 0:58.0 | I remember seeing past lives at The Angelica when it was there and it was like the first time I'd |
| 1:04.9 | been in a theater with an audience and I just yeah I loved it and the whole other |
| 1:09.6 | room was packed and people were so into it and it just made me excited about movies. |
| 1:14.8 | The kind of movies that I love. |
| 1:15.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.8 | It was so personal and it's always when something that's like touching but not embarrassing. |
| 1:23.4 | Like you know that it's done. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah, just with restraint and taste and yeah, so I loved it. |
| 1:29.9 | But what, I'm just curious, I know you were a playwright before, and this is your first film. |
| 1:35.0 | Did you make short films before? |
| 1:36.8 | And this is the first one you ever did something with the camera? |
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