Marie Antoinette 2006
Amanda's pick, and the one she pushed for over the more expected 'Lost in Translation.' Sofia Coppola spent her Lost in Translation clout on a $40 million costume drama shot at the Palace of Versailles, with seven wardrobe trucks, Milena Canonero's Oscar-winning costumes, Lance Acord's camera, and a post-punk and new-romantic soundtrack (Bow Wow Wow, Gang of Four, The Strokes). She turned the most reviled woman in French history into a sympathetic teenager. Kirsten Dunst plays her; Jason Schwartzman is Louis XVI, with Rip Torn, Judy Davis, Marianne Faithfull as her mother, Rose Byrne, Steve Coogan, Danny Huston, and an early Jamie Dornan around her. It premiered at Cannes to some boos, won a single Oscar for costume design, and Amanda ranks it at the top of Coppola's work with 'The Virgin Suicides' and 'Lost in Translation.' Cited influences: Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon,' Terrence Malick, Miloš Forman, and Ken Russell's 'Lisztomania.'