LEIGH IS LIVELY, COPPOLA IS A CROCK
Another Year is an affirmation of life, Somewhere is a lifeless drudge
Each of these films explore the human experience but take very different paths in getting there. Another Year, which examines twilight years in suburban London, is full of life and energy. Somewhere, which looks at Hollywood youth, feels arthritic.
The worst first: Somewhere, the latest, critically-acclaimed effort from Sofia Coppola shadows Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) at the infamous Chateau Marmont, Sunset Boulevard's version of jejune pretension: Greta Garbo, Hunter Thompson and Jim Morrison lived there; John Belushi died of an overdose …

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