Ep. # 82 - The Sofia Coppola Lonely Celebrity Trio: Lost in Translation, Somewhere, Priscilla

On this 82nd episode of Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to discuss the finer points of being a misunderstood celebrity sequestered in first-rate hostelries  as we discuss three of director Sofia Coppola’s notable tales of privileged isolation: 2003’s Lost in Translation starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johannsson, Anna Faris, Fumihiro Hayashi and Giovanni Ribisi along with 2010’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Chris Pontius, Ellie Kemper, Michelle Monaghan, and in an uncredited cameo, Alden Ehrenreich topped off with 2023’s Priscilla starring Callie Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Tim Post, Ari Cohe and Mrs. Patrick Wilson herself, Dagmara Dominczyk.

I’m joined this week by my favorite panelists who, like Priscilla Presley, can relate to  feelings of being confined in a stultifying dungeon of endless pontification with an insecure and egotistical blowhard, my kid-sister and lit major Roseanne Caputi as well as The King of Reno, actor, photographer and guitarist, Colonel Gordon Alex Robertson! 

Okay, before we don the blue suede shoes and lock ourselves in our rooms, the synopses:

 In Lost in Translation over-the-hill action movie star Bob Harris, in Tokyo to do a photoshoot for a brand of Japanese whiskey, befriends fellow hotel resident Charlotte, a young American woman whose new husband, a photographer, is in town to do a fashion shoot and is never around. 

Somewhere tells the story of Johnny Marco, a hard-partying Hollywood action star on the rise, spinning his wheels and recuperating from an injury at Hollywood’s famous Chateau Marmont is unexpectantly charged by his ex-wife to spend more time with his daughter Cleo. 

And in a show first: I’m going to have Roseanne fact check the Google Log line for a film: 

Priscilla- When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock 'n' roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness and a vulnerable best friend.

What would an ace English Teacher and lit major do to correct that synopsis? 

Find out! 

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