1. Somewhere (2010), written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Coppola is our greatest living director. The interiors (and exteriors) of the Chateau Marmont hotel in L.A. are beautiful here. So is watching a man (Stephen Dorff) in existential trouble. An actor trying to balance his career and his daughter and his alcoholism. Coppola’s long takes give the viewer the kind of autonomy I find in good poems.
2. (1972), written and directed by John Waters. How do you even describe
