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23rd October 2006 Scott Kinsey
From an article about Jazz multi-keyboardist Scott Kinsey: Making the hip even hipper, you can also hear Scott’s keyboards backing up the biggest movie stars of today in the soundtracks to the films “Ocean’s Eleven”, “Code 46”, “Stander”, “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”, “Brown Sugar”, “Analyze That!” and 2005’s hugely successful “Ocean’s Twelve”. Upcoming soundtracks include Bob Odenkirk's “You are going to Prison” and Steven Soderbergh's “The Good German”. Posted on 23rd October 2006
22nd October 2006 The Good German trailer
The trailer for The Good German has been added to the film's official website! Screen captures from the HD trailer have been added to the photo gallery.     Laura Bickford on Guerrilla From The Sunday Times: Beyond the search for Academy recognition, the challenge in playing real people, contemporary or historical, is tremendously exciting to actors and actresses. But the producer Laura Bickford points out that there are enormous differences between films about “artists like Virginia Woolf or Basquiat, and biopics about historical and political figures, like Patton or Gandhi”. Bickford has produced Fur, starring Nicole Kidman as the controversial American photographer Diane Arbus, which is in the Oscar running this year. She is also producing Guerrilla, the Che Guevara biopic starring Benicio Del Toro and directed by Steven Soderbergh, which she hopes will be a contender next year. “In Fur we wanted to say right up front that these are not events that really happened,” she says. “We are showing the emotional and creative journey Diane had at a certain point in her life, but we are showing what happened in a metaphorical way, to give people the sense of the experience of what her journey into her subconscious, into her creativity, might have been like for her. Che Guevara we’re approaching in the opposite way. It’s important we are as accurate as we can be about the elements of his life we are showing. So we have done a tremendous amount of research, listening to tapes, watching as much film as we can, interviewing the people who knew Che best.” Karen Sisco - Out of Sight From an article looking at feminist films: Leonard’s strongest female character to make it to the big screen is Karen Sisco, the federal marshal who gets caught up in a Florida prison break and has to track down the charismatic bank robber who temporarily held her hostage after she wandered into his escape path. Sure it’s a kidnapping, but in film and fiction that is sometimes known as “meeting cute.” Jennifer Lopez played Sisco in the film version of Out of Sight. It’s a fine film - in my view it was not only the best picture of 1998 but also director Steven Soderbergh’s best film to date; Lopez’s, too. Karen is smart and tough, yet what makes her such a great character is that she’s self-aware: she knows it’s a mistake to fall - OK, maybe she just stumbles - for a bank robber (played by George Clooney). And she tries to fix her mistake. I will not spoil the ending of the book or movie, but I do want to go on the record in saluting screenwriter Scott Frank for actually improving the book’s perfectly good ending. Posted on 22nd October 2006
18th October 2006 More on the Clean, Shaven DVD commentary
From DVD Talk: "Clean, Shaven" is one of those movies that cries out for explanation and analysis, and Criterion does a very good job of it. A running commentary has indie filmmaker extraordinaire Steven Soderbergh interviewing Lodge Kerrigan as they watch the movie. Talking shop has rarely been this enlightening, as Soderbergh homes in as only an another director can: Do you set aesthetic rules for camera, lighting and editing before shooting starts? (Having no money is a key deciding factor, Kerrigan replies.) Do you tell actors how to act a scene? How do you distinguish between creating confusion and ambiguity? Kerrigan, who had started out making short films, decided he should just go ahead and make a feature even though he had little funds. "I've always encouraged people to do that," says Soderbergh. "Get the train on the tracks and figure the rest out later." Kerrigan says it took two years to shoot "Clean, Shaven" and another year to edit it due to lack of money. As for his influences, Kerrigan says John Cassavetes' "A Woman Under the Influence" "is probably the greatest film made about mental instability," but also cites Ingmar Bergman's "Through a Glass Darkly" and Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" as thematic ancestors of his movie. The downside, if there is one, to this interview-style commentary is that the two men's discussion often slides away from the movie running in front of them and us, with many demanding moments just slipping by unremarked. The fingernail scene, however, gets their full attention. Soderbergh has a tough time rewatching it, but jokes about Greene's passivity, "When I pull my fingernails off, I usually scream. But that's me." (For those who plan to look away, the cuticularly creeped out moment comes at the 54-minute mark.) Posted on 18th October 2006
17th October 2006 New Soderbergh DVD commentary
Lodge Kerrigan's 1994 film called Clean, Shaven is released on Criterion Collection DVD today, and amongst the Special Features on the DVD is an "Audio commentary featuring Steven Soderbergh interviewing Kerrigan". A synopsis and details about the DVD are available on the Criterion Collection website. The Good German website The Good German website is now live at TheGoodGerman.com! The site currently just has a poster for the movie though. Posted on 17th October 2006
16th October 2006 Site update: Articles & interviews
All the articles and interviews have been re-added to the site. They're all listed alphabetically on the index page, and also divided up into the years that they were published. Steven Soderbergh producing untitled documentary about Roman Polanski A New York Times article mentions that Steven is an executive producer of an upcoming documentary about Roman Polanski. The documentary is being made by Marina Zenovich, who also directed the Soderbergh-produced documentary Who Is Bernard Tapie? in 2001: The new film, unfinished and untitled, is being produced by Jeffrey Levy-Hinte (“Thirteen”) and Lila Yacoub (“The Anniversary Party”), and has Steven Soderbergh as an executive producer. It was recently acquired for distribution in Britain by the BBC, and when it eventually appears here in theaters or on the festival circuit, it will likely renew the debate over whether Mr. Polanski still has a price to pay if he returns to the United States. Ms. Zenovich, a 43-year-old former actress who once had a small part in “The Player,” said it is impossible to reach conclusions about Mr. Polanski without drawing Judge Rittenband into the equation. “I’ve never set out to diminish the seriousness of what Polanski did, but it comes down to crime and punishment,” she explained. “How much do you have to pay for the crime? What I’ve always set out to prove is, despite what Polanski did, which was awful, he was treated unfairly by the judge. That’s the bottom line.” Convinced that even reasonably well informed people do not completely understand the Polanski case, Ms. Zenovich pursued a doggedly reportorial course, undeterred by Mr. Polanski’s refusal to participate. (A spokesperson for Mr. Polanski confirmed that he has no involvement with the documentary.) She conducted on-camera interviews with nearly 100 people, including Samantha Geimer, the girl, now in her 40’s, with whom Mr. Polanski had sex and who has publicly forgiven him. Other interview subjects included figures connected with the director’s film career, among them Mia Farrow, Nastassja Kinski, Robert Evans and Robert Towne. The full article about the documentary can be read here. Soderbergh mention From an article called '10 reasons you shouldn't go to film school': 1. Your favorite filmmaker didn't go to film school - Some of the directors working today who didn't attend are Steven Soderbergh, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, Spike Jonze... of course it depends on who your favorite filmmaker is, and plenty of famous directors are film school alumni, among them some of the most decorated. The trio of Spielberg Lucas, Scorcese, and Coppola all went to film school--but that was a different era Soderbergh mention #2 From an article about Sarah Polley: She went further suggesting that as an actor she'd like to argue that directors should know more about the craft of acting so that they can talk more easily with the cast about their performances, but she remains "ambiguous" on the subject. "The truth is... it's not theatre." Michael Winterbottom and Steven Soderbergh, she pointed out, are laconic in their directorial style, often giving one word instructions ("faster", "louder", "slower"), but they still make good movies. Soderbergh mention #3 From a review of the film Flags of Our Fathers: I am not a big fan of Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford or Paul Walker. I just think there are so many more talented young actors in Hollywood these days, like Shia LaBeouf. But in Clint we trust, and I’m pretty sure he’ll get what he wants out of them (remember how well Soderbergh transformed Clooney from his crappy ER acting into movie star with ‘Out of Sight’? I think Clint might be able to pull off the same thing). Posted on 16th October 2006
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