Steven Soderbergh

by Kaufman, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781578064298
• ISBN10: 1578064295
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

Steven Soderbergh's cinema-making star has blazed with sex, lies, and videotape, sputtered with The Underneath, and flared again with the acclaimed movie Traffic.Steven Soderbergh: Interviews charts the rise and fall and rise of the writer-director-producer's surprising career from 1989 to 2001. From his "flavor of the month" status with his debut film sex, lies, and videotape to his Academy Award -- winning feature Traffic, Soderbergh's road to success is fraught with ups and downs.On each and every film, the book details such experiences as his creative crisis surrounding his fourth film, The Underneath, and his rejuvenation with the ultra-low budget free-style Schizopolis, and the mainstream achievements that followed with Erin Brockovich and Traffic.Spanning twelve years, these conversations reveal Soderbergh (b. 1963) to be as self-effacing and lighthearted in his later more established years as he was when just starting out. He comes across as a man undaunted by the glitz and powerof Hollywood, remaining, above all, a truly independent filmmaker unafraid to get his hands dirty and pick up the camera himself.Not only do the interviews provide a glimpse into the filmmaker's aesthetics, but they also offer a history of the U.S. independent film movement in the late 1980s and 1990s -- the explosion of "independent films, " studios and film festivals, and the Hollywood co-optation of such talents, Soderbergh included. The collection also reveals the increasingly blurred boundaries between independent and mainstream and Soderbergh's commitment to revitalizing cinema from inside the system.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Chronology	xix
Filmography	xxiii
Hot Phenom: Hollywood Makes a Big Deal over Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape	3	(10)
Terri Minsky
Interview with Steven Soderbergh: sex, lies, and videotape	13	(11)
Michel Ciment
Hubert Niogret
Steven Soderbergh, King of Cannes: Truth or Consequences	24	(10)
Harlan Jacobson
Candid Camera: sex, lies, and videotape Director Faces Reality	34	(4)
Gene Siskel
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Steven Soderbergh Comes Clean	38	(7)
Katherine Dieckmann
An Exploration of the Work Kafka	45	(11)
Michel Ciment
Hubert Niogret
Interview with Steven Soderbergh: King of the Hill	56	(10)
Michel Ciment
Hubert Niogret
Steven Soderbergh Hopes That Three Is His Lucky Number	66	(4)
Kenneth M. Chanko
Interview with Steven Soderbergh: The Underneath	70	(11)
Michel Ciment
Hubert Niogret
Soderbergh's The Underneath Brings '90s Style to Film Noir	81	(7)
Kevin Lally
Crazy for You: Steven Soderbergh Cuts Loose with Schizopolis	88	(10)
Patricia Thomson
Suddenly Soderbergh: The Onetime Wunderkind Beats the Backlash	98	(4)
Paula S. Bernstein
Out of Sight	102	(6)
Ed Kelleher
Sight Seeing: Steven Soderbergh Loosens Up	108	(2)
Dennis Lim
Back in Sight: The Return of Steven Soderbergh	110	(4)
Paul Malcolm
The Flashback Kid	114	(6)
Sheila Johnston
Straight Man: Joking Around, or Not, with Limey Director Steven Soderbergh	120	(5)
Scott Kelton Jones
Emotion, Truth, and Celluloid	125	(10)
Michael Sragow
Soderbergh's Starpower	135	(4)
Scott
Barbara Siegel
Steven Soderbergh: From sex, lies, and videotape to Erin Brockovich--A Maverick Director's Route (with Detours) to Hollywood Clout	139	(9)
Anne Thompson
Having Your Way with Hollywood, or the Further Adventures of Steven Soderbergh	148	(9)
Dennis Lim
Man of the Year: Steven Soderbergh Traffics in Success	157	(9)
Anthony Kaufman
73rd Academy Awards	166	(3)
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Index	169