Roman Coppola: Last News

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMariah Carey is set to headline a Christmas special at Apple.“Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special” will combine music, dancing and animation. It will be driven by a a story about bringing the world together.

Nominated for seven Academy Awards, filmmaker Wes Anderson won his first Oscar this past weekend, the Best Live Action Short Film for his 33-minute short, “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch. But during the Oscar ceremony, Anderson was nowhere to be found and couldn’t accept in person.

“To be honest, the idea of freedom scares me:” Produced and presented by filmmaker Roman Coppola (“Mozart in the Jungle,” “A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III,” and a regular Wes Anderson co-writer), eight different filmmakers come together to collectively direct “The Seven Faces of Jane,” in which the titular protagonist (played by Gillian Jacobs, who also directs) undergoes a series of life-altering changes, as she drives away from her “mundane life into an exciting odyssey on the road.” The idea is essentially a cinematic exquisite corpse, the game invented by French surrealists, where one person writes a fragment of a sentence, the next person reads some of it, and tries to add onto it from there; essentially an experimental game of passing the baton with art.

If there’s one defining trait about Steven Soderbergh, beyond making terrific films, it’s his relentless curiosity and willingness to experiment. An innovator and early adopter of nearly any new technology that has been available to him —he was one of the first major filmmaker to embrace digital filmmaking, and has continued forging ahead with app-focused narratives like “Mosaic,” and backing iPhone-only projects for Quibi—Soderbergh has always shown himself to be a forward-thinker willing to play in any sandbox.