It’s a new year and a new decade. Here’s looking forward to a prosperous decade of cinema. Will it known for a slew of sequels and comic book adaptations and funny cat videos like the 00’s were? Or will it be known for groundbreaking and socially relevant cinema like the 70s? There’s a glimmer of [...]
The Informant!
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
You can’t keep a good executive down. After ENRON, after Lehman Brothers and the continuing fury at executive bonuses it was quite a change to see the corporate executive class as brimming with ineffective buffoons rather than coldly calculated capitalist psychopaths, in The Informant! Matt Damon stars as the amiable Mark [...]
The Informant!
Directed by Stephen Soderbergh
In 1995, Mark Whitacre shocked the world when he became the highest-ranked executive to turn whistleblower in US history. For three years, Whitacre worked with the FBI, covertly taping conversations with his employers and competitors to gather evidence of an international price fixing scheme in the agribusiness sector, amounting to hundreds [...]
The Informant!
Directed by Stephen Soderbergh
In 1995, Mark Whitacre shocked the world when he became the highest-ranked executive to turn whistleblower in US history. For three years, Whitacre worked with the FBI, covertly taping conversations with his employers and competitors to gather evidence of an international price fixing scheme in the agribusiness sector, amounting to hundreds [...]
In our second look at the work of director Steven Soderbergh, Sound on Sight takes on three of the celebrated director’s crime-related films – though they’re crimes of different stripes. His latest, The Informant!, takes on white-collar crime, and stars Matt Damon as a corporate whistleblower who may not be as innocent as he seems. [...]
MJ Documentary?
The King of Pop continues to be incredibly lucrative, even in death. The latest posthumous venture concerns the “…rights to the approximately 80 hours of high-definition, full dress rehearsal footage captured by AEG Entertainment, the company behind Jackson’s concert series.” It’s the rehearsal footage for the “This Is It” series of 50 live shows [...]
TIFF Lineup Announcements
The 2009 Toronto International Film Fest has begun to unveil its lineup, and it’s a doozy so far. From Cannes, we have Jane Campion’s Bright Star, Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother, Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank and Johnnnie To’s Vengeance. Premieres include: opening night film Creation, which stars Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany as Emma and [...]
The man formerly known as Zowie Bowie, Duncan Jones, has graced us with his first feature film, an ode to atmospheric ’70s sci-fi called Moon, starring Sam Rockwell as an isolated miner living on the titular rock. To celebrate, we’ll be looking at another recent sci-fi throwback, Steven Soderbergh’s take on Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris, [...]
George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s production company Smokehouse Entertainment have left their longtime friends at Warner Brothers and have signed a two year contract with Sony. It kind of feels like strange timing after Sony just screwed over longtime collaborator Steven Soderbergh and his baseball docu-drama Moneyball.
It kind of feels like the end of [...]
It’s been over a month since Steven Soderbergh’s last release The Girlfriend Experience. So it’s about time we got a look at his latest film The Informant starring Matt Damon. Expecting a Michael Clayton style drama I was pleasantly surprised the film is being billed as a black comedy. The Trailer has a couple real [...]
The adult film actress and star of Steven Soderbourgh’s The Girlfriend Experience has proven herself a true cinephile. On The Rotten Tomatoes show she listed her five favorite films: Herzog’s Stroszek, Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl, Godard’s Pierrot le fou (apparently great escapist entertainment), Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence, and Carpenter’s Escape from New York. [...]
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Up to this point, the career of Steven Soderbergh has unfolded like every independent director’s wet dream. His early films, such as 1989’s sex, lies and videotape, were the sort of intimate, deeply personal stories that stun film critics at Sundance but tend to find less success when playing alongside Rocky sequels. Nevertheless, [...]
