Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Soderbergh’s Secret Ingredient March 27, 2025
Steven Soderbergh’s work ethic is so legendary that there’s a joke about it: “In the time it took me to say this, he made another movie.”Since his feature-filmmaking debut 36 years ago with sex, lies and videotape, Soderbergh has has worked on 33 mov...
On 'Black Bag' March 25, 2025
It’s rare for a director to release two films in the same year, rarer still two films in the same quarter—and perhaps unprecedented that both should be so satisfying. Opening in January, Steven Soderbergh’s Presence (which premiered at Sundance in 20...
Inside the Dream Factory February 03, 2025
“We’re here because I love this place,” says Steven Soderbergh, pulling up a stool at a snug whiskey bar among the guitar shops off London’s Charing Cross Road. “But we’re also here because I need a drink.”...
Steven Soderbergh Deconstructs Recent Experiments August 09, 2023
Rebel,Rebel, wunderkind, trendsetter, pioneer, one-man band — all labels applied to Steven Soderbergh more regularly than, say, “winner of the Academy Award for Best Director” or “youngest-ever Palme d’Or recipient.” Whatever the filmmaker’s independ...
The Promise and Peril of Movie Remakes April 10, 2023
A few weeks ago, news broke that Paramount was planning to embark on a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo with star Robert Downey Jr. You are forgiven if your reaction is one of deep skepticism. What can possibly be gained by remaking a film widely...
On 'Magic Mike’s Last Dance' February 21, 2023
Magic Mike fans know to expect goofy, prop-festooned displays of physical dexterity from the franchise, but the best scene in the latest and final installment pares that formula down to a few old-fashioned elements: a woman, a man, and a chair. While...
Steven Soderbergh Can’t Quit 'Magic Mike' February 09, 2023
Steven Soderbergh’s filmography is packed with stories of disaffected professionals who announce that they’re permanently out of whatever job they used to do yet reenter their fields instantly when offered a challenge too enticing to pass up. Soderbe...
Steven Soderbergh's 2022 Media Diet January 17, 2023
All caps, bold: MOVIE All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT* All caps: TV SERIES Italics: Book Quotation marks: “Play” Italics, quotation marks: “Short Story” 01/01 Lemon, Kwon Yeo-sun, Creative Types, Tom Bissell, WEST SIDE STORY (’21), TUCKER: THE MAN AN...
