Film Directors With Their Shirts Off: The Next Generation
Sofia Coppola.
A second generation topless filmmaker, no less, since I featured Sofia’s dad and his lovely moobs some time ago.
This image comes from This Isn’t Happiness, a beautiful picture blog which is updated with spectacular frequency, ensuring you get a regular image-fix several times a day. The only downside is their tendency to feature rather a lot of pics of sexy ladies in states of undress, which I certainly don’t approve of.
In this case, the image was culled from The World’s Best Ever, another sterling image blog.
We could now have a heated debate about the merits or otherwise of Sofia Coppola’s filmmaking, but it doesn’t seem quite right to do so under a topless picture of the crooked-smiling auteur. Nor does it seem appropriate to simply remark “Nice rack.” And tying it in somehow to Kathryn Bigelow’s epoch-making Oscar win, or International Women’s Day, didn’t quite seem right either.
So let’s turn this into an APPEAL — Send me your topless director shots! Still looking for an Orson Welles, a Ken Russell and an Otto Preminger.
March 9, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Very Roman Polanski.
March 9, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Oh dear. That Sofia shot looks vaguely like one of those portraits I used to see in the New Yorker before I quit reading it. I think the formula is this: Get famous woman in varying state of undress. Have her strike masculine pose, with face sullen. Shoot photo. Profit! Nice work if you can get it.
If there’s one of Orson out there, I want it to be a late-period full-belly shot with Orson’s wicked smile on his bearded visage. Nothing less would do.
March 9, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Ken Russell is the one in the middle:
http://deeperintomovies.net/journal/image09/trappedashes08.jpg
March 9, 2010 at 4:59 pm
That’s for Ken’s last movie (to date) Burnt Ashes
March 9, 2010 at 8:57 pm
That’s a startling image, but then I would expect no less from the Great Ken. Thanks!
March 9, 2010 at 10:16 pm
cool..reminds me of a 60s kinda thing
March 9, 2010 at 11:02 pm
She’s got the female Joe Dallesandro look.
March 10, 2010 at 12:10 am
Moobs: man-boobs? A shirtless Orson would definitely have those.
March 10, 2010 at 12:16 am
Yes, “moobs” is a UK term but expect to see it catch on everywhere in this body-conscious word. But maybe “bingo wings” is too culture-specific to do likewise.
I did see topless Orson action, possibly in Higham’s bio. It was Orson in the sauna trying to sweat off some weight, snapped by some sneaking paparazzo. I don’t think I’d reprint such images here.
March 10, 2010 at 12:59 am
Andrew Myer’s brother Frank had (has? not at all sure if he’s still with us) boobs. They’re on view in Meyer’s film Flower Child, co-starring the ineffable Joy Bang.
March 10, 2010 at 9:15 am
Thanks for the shirtless Sofia (whose movies I like a lot, even the much maligned Marie Antoinette). Can we have one of Jason Reitman next?
But seriously… I interrupt this conversation to congratulate the two Daves — Dave C. for his film script and Dave E. for his Red Shoes notes (don’t get me started on restored The Red Shoes because my one chance to see it on the big screen has been blown). Thus, a cake. AND June Marlowe.
Shot at 2010-03-10
March 10, 2010 at 9:16 am
Well, that didn’t work. Let’s try that again.
[IMG]http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1708/davescake.jpg[/IMG]
March 10, 2010 at 9:17 am
That didn’t work either. Maybe this?
http://img11.imageshack.us/i/davescake.jpg/
March 10, 2010 at 9:18 am
Well, shoot. One last chance. If it doesn’t work, just go to the link.
Shot at 2010-03-10
March 10, 2010 at 9:19 am
[IMG]http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1708/davescake.jpg[/IMG]
March 10, 2010 at 9:20 am
Sorry. :( http://img11.imageshack.us/i/davescake.jpg/
I slink back to lurking. *slink* (A preview function would help!)
March 10, 2010 at 10:05 am
Number three works! And thanks! I’ll keep my eyes peeled for a peeled Jason Reitman.
March 10, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Number three works? All I see is a link, not a picture. Hope you liked it. There are 2,442 Clash of the Wolves screencaps (including more June Marlowe with cake pics) at my site. :)
Just kidding about Reitman. Really. Though I look forward to his next movie.
And you’re SOOO right about Burton’s Alice.
March 10, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Yes, it works as a link but the picture doesn’t show. I’m afraid I have no idea how you make pics show up in comments.
I’ll have a look at your site. That’s a lot of screen-caps! For everyone else, that site is: http://paulasmoviepage.shutterfly.com/
Just found some more Rinty movies in a collection which I hope to access soon.
March 10, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Here’s Preminger acting coy with his shirt off:
http://www.life.com/image/50372428
March 11, 2010 at 12:40 am
Fantastic! And so titillating. A shame I can’t copy and paste the pic, it seems to be protected somehow. What a jewel in my collection that would be!
March 11, 2010 at 9:31 am
David, I’ve just emailed it to you, so you can have a new jewel in your collection.
March 11, 2010 at 10:03 am
Wonderful!
March 11, 2010 at 8:11 pm
And for Sofia in action (directed by Spike Jonze):
March 11, 2010 at 9:56 pm
The video doesn’t play here, but if you double-click on it you’ll be taken to YouTube for the full glory.