Given her reputation as one of the most successful American female directors of her generation, it’s easy to overlook the fact that it wasn’t all plain sailing for Sofia Coppola early on in her career. Following minor supporting roles in her father’s ’80s films The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club and Peggy Sue Got Married, a still teenaged Coppola was widely ridiculed for her performance in 1990’s The Godfather: Part III. So she went away and quietly reinvented herself as a writer/director, returning eight years later with Lick the Star, which debuted on the Independent Film Channel. The 14-minute black-and-white short introduced audiences to various motifs which would come to define Coppola’s later work, from wistful voiceover narration to a rebellious female protagonist to an angsty rock soundtrack.