Weekly newspapers aren't just free gift wrap, they also contain articles and sexy back page ads. Here's what you'll find on streetcorners around town this week:

SFWeekly

The Weekly's big story takes a look at Sofia Coppola's journey to "Somewhere". Somewhere being the title of her upcoming film which is shot somewhere other than San Francisco. Actually large parts of it are being shot inside LA's infamous Chateau Marmont where, among other things, Sofia celebrated her 21st birthday (although she apparently didn't remember that fact).

Sofia's youthful indiscretions aside, Karina Longworth's piece describes the upcoming film as "defiantly austere, the most challenging Coppola has made to date." It's largely inspired by (and makes prominent use of) the Phoenix track "Love Like a Sunset" - which is handy because Thomas Mars, Phoenix's frontman, is responsible for both that particular track and Sofia's two young daughters.

Starring Stephen Dorff as a "depressed, withdrawn movie star", Somewhere sounds like it lands near Lost in Translation's style of semi-true fiction. (Dorff lived at the Chateau for two months when he was 19, and other parts of the film are largely based on Eleanor Coppola's memoirs.) The rest of the piece is probably a better fit for an LA audience or rabid Coppola fan, but there is this wonderful quote from Dorff about his process:

You know, dressing to play a woman, [like] in I Shot Andy Warhol, it's a piece of cake for me. I look in the mirror, I look like a girl, I just find a voice, walk around in some heels and do it.

That strategy is apparently not working for him with Coppola's bare, verité style. (Probably not in Blade either, because of how he was a vampire.)