Tag: Steven Soderbergh
30 Most Anticipated Films of 2010
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 … [Read the Rest]
London Film Festival `09: The Informant!
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 … [Read the Rest]
TIFF ‘09: The Informant!
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 … [Read the Rest]
TIFF ’09: The Informant!
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 … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #155 – TIFF ’09 Report: The Informant!
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 … [Read the Rest]
Michael Jackson doc/Venice Film Festival highlights/Michael Sheen added to Tron: Legacy/Yet another “Saw” Film/Apatow contracted to Universal
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 … [Read the Rest]
News: TIFF lineup announcement / No Stephen Chow as Kato / Toronto After Dark’s initial lineup announced
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. … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #133 – A Space Oddity
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 … [Read the Rest]
News: Clooney Leaving Warner Brothers / Soderbergh Abandons Moneyball / Details Emerge on American Remake of Let the Right One In / Adams to Star in The Fighter? / Jones to Follow Up Moon with Mute
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 … [Read the Rest]
Trailers: The Informant!
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 … [Read the Rest]
News: Porn Star Sasha Grey has Impeccable Taste in Film
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 … [Read the Rest]
Sound On Sight Radio #98 – Steven Soderbergh
Download show 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 … [Read the Rest]
