The Five Big Winners at Cannes

While the Oscars are cursed by slow predictability—all those long months leading up to that long TV show in which the people you expect to win do win—the Cannes award ceremony runs a single brisk hour and lives up to the famous

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Sofia Coppola: “Film is Our Family Business”

Ms. Coppola, Michael Douglas once said that for the first fifteen years of his career he felt like he was “damned to success” just because of his father. Is that a feeling that you understand following your father’s footsteps as a filmmaker? 

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The 10 Best Books of 2014

Perhaps no novel this year was more feverishly anticipated—or more frequently stolen from my desk—than Elena Ferrante’s Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Europa), the third installment of the enigmatic Italian author’s Neapolitan novels, which tell a single story with the

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