Sofia Coppola has an anti-violence rule for watching movies — with one notable exception. The director mentioned throughout a current masterclass on the Biarritz Nouvelles Vagues Competition that she tries to avoid “violent” movies, although she remains to be a fan of Martin Scorsese‘s options.
“I like Scorsese, so there are moments for it,” Coppola mentioned, including that “violent themes may be fascinating or insinuating.” Nevertheless, as an entire, Coppola herself “[doesn’t] actually like violent movies.”
She added, “There’s a lot gun violence in my nation. It’s actually arduous to see [those] films. Previous cowboys are cool, however simply the best way [violence] is overdone now could be upsetting. … However actually gory, not a lot for me.”
Scorsese has little doubt has been a private staple in Coppola’s life: Scorsese introduced her father, fellow auteur Francis Ford Coppola, with the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025, and the duo have lengthy praised one another’s work. Francis Ford Coppola took to Instagram in 2023 to name his “longtime pal” Scorsese the “world’s best dwelling filmmaker” whereas selling Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
“He is a superb individual and the world’s best dwelling filmmaker. His new movie delivers on each degree,” Francis Ford Coppola wrote on the time.
Scorsese beforehand known as “The Godfather Half II” his favourite Francis Ford Coppola movie in an opinion piece for Esquire, writing that the household drama is “constructed like a symphony and directed by a grasp as an ideal conductor directs his orchestra, it reaches its highest factors of lyricism.” Coppola additionally deemed “Raging Bull” his favourite Scorsese film in the identical Esquire piece.
Whereas Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola are each titans of filmmaking, particularly serving to to start out the trendy Golden Age of Hollywood, Sofia Coppola ushered within the twenty first century of ladies auteurs. Sofia Coppola made her function directorial debut in 2000 with “The Virgin Suicides,” and throughout her profession, she mentioned that she has seen a “large shift” in gender parity Hollywood for the higher.
Sofia Coppola additionally famous on the Biarritz Nouvelles Vagues Competition that she hopes to witness extra feminine administrators discover their method to the large display screen. “After I was beginning, there have been so few of us,” she mentioned. “It’s actually thrilling to see so many extra ladies administrators, so many younger ladies administrators.”
