Director Sofia Coppola and actor Bill Murray discuss the challenges of working in Tokyo, Japan.

A. O. Scott reviews Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette," starring Kirsten Dunst. (Produced by Gabriel Elias Johnson)

Director Sofia Coppola and novelist Francine Prose give insight into the Louis Vuitton don's flawless combination of artistic creativity and sheer style.

Sofia Coppola directs this biopic about Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France who became a symbol of the wanton extravagance of the 18th century. Eventually, she was beheaded by her own subjects. Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman star.

Sofia Coppola directs this biopic about Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France who became a symbol of the wanton extravagance of the 18th century. Eventually, she was beheaded by her own subjects. Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman star.

Sofia Coppola directs this biopic about Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France who became a symbol of the wanton extravagance of the 18th century. Eventually, she was beheaded by her own subjects. Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman star.

Sofia Coppola directs this biopic about Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France who became a symbol of the wanton extravagance of the 18th century. Eventually, she was beheaded by her own subjects. Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman star.

Actor Steven Antin wrote the screenplay, and U.S.C. film professor Jefery Levy directed this self-absorbed trifle about a self-absorbed screenwriter and his nutty family and friends. Antin plays Monkey Zetterland, an innocuous young man who is trying to work on his screenplay -- something having to do with the defunct Los Angeles streetcar system -- while a collection of relatives, friends, and neighbors continually interrupt him. His family is a collection of personified neurosis: there is Honor (Katherine Helmond) a soap-opera actress with hemorrhoids who is afraid of being fired; Grace (Patricia Arquette), his lesbian sister who is crestfallen to find that her lover Cindy (Sofia Coppola) is pregnant; brother Brent (Tate Donovan), an anal hairdresser with his elbow constantly bent over a cell phone; and Mike (Bo Hopkins), his Dad, who shows up for Thanksgiving dinner with his pet parrot. But his neighbors are no better: Imogene (Sandra Bernhard) screams to him, I love you, Monkey Zetterland!; Daphne (Debi M

After making a striking directorial debut with her screen adaptation of {-The Virgin Suicides}, Sofia Coppola offers a story of love and friendship blooming under unlikely circumstances in this comedy drama. Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is a well-known American actor whose career has gone into a tailspin; needing work, he takes a very large fee to appear in a commercial for Japanese whiskey to be shot in Tokyo. Feeling no small degree of culture shock in Japan, Bob spends most of his non-working hours at his hotel, where he meets Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) at the bar. Twentysomething Charlotte is married to John (Giovanni Ribisi), a successful photographer who is in Tokyo on an assignment, leaving her to while away her time while he works. Beyond their shared bemusement and confusion with the sights and sounds of contemporary Tokyo, Bob and Charlotte share a similar dissatisfaction with their lives; the spark has gone out of Bob's marriage, and he's become disillusioned with his career. Meanwhile, Charlotte i