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In saved ephemera, SOFIA COPPOLA leads a luxurious tour behind the scenes of her films

"IT'S HARD TO think of yourself as someone that's important enough to save your junk," Oscar-winning writer and director Sofia Coppola tells Vanity Fair. But Coppola's boxes of "junk"—on-set snaps of famous faces from Bill Murray to Paris Hilton; revised scripts; letters; and even a marked-up VF article by Nancy Jo Sales, from which Coppola adapted her 2013 The Bling Ring— are another person's nearly 500-page treasure trove. "I'm not very organized," she admits. "So there's some kind of order to having it all in one place."

Compiled like a scrapbook, which she hopes might be a useful guide for young filmmakers, Sofia Coppola Archive: 1999-2023 (MACK), spans her nearly 25-year-long feature filmography. It begins with a peek behind the scenes of her dreamy 1999 directorial debut, The Virgin Suicides, and closes with an exclusive look at her upcoming film Priscilla, based on Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon's 1985 book, Elvis and Me— including a note from Priscilla herself and photos taken by Jacob Elordi, the film's Elvis. "My office is filled with reference books, so I'm excited to have my own," says Coppola, "if [the boxes] all burn, at least they exist somewhere."

DANIELA TIJERINA