Posted on February 15th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
I was digging under the cushions of my couch and I found some awards that went down over the weekend! Imagine that.
Art Director’s Guild
Period Film: Sherlock Holmes
Fantasy: Avatar
Contemporary: The Hurt Locker
American Cinema Editors
Drama: The Hurt Locker
Comedy: The Hangover
Documentary: The Cove
The Muriels:
Best Web-Based Criticism (Muriel voters ineligible): Glenn Kenny, Some Came Running
Best Body of Work 2009: [...]
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Posted on February 9th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
Production rumors and announcements are the bread and butter of many movie websites, but after awhile you start to realize that none of it really means anything until cameras are rolling. Still, there are a handful of filmmakers I like to keep tabs on and Martin Scorsese and Steven Soderbergh are two of them.
The Playlist [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
Longworth and Taubin take a look at Soderbergh’s Spaulding Gray documentary AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE.
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Posted on January 5th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
Foreign newspapers sometimes have a whimsical grasp of truthiness, but this report from the Sydney Morning Herald is pretty plausible if you know anything about Steven Soderbergh. The notoriously fast working director has been in Sydney mounting a play for Cate Blanchett’s theater company and apparently he’s taken the opportunity to shoot a largely improvised [...]
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Posted on January 4th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
Criterion’s DVD of Steven Soderbergh’s Che starring Benicio Del Toro won’t be available until January 19, but the film (not the extras) is already available for streaming on Netflix.
As has been previously noted, Olivier Assayas’ terrific Summer Hours has been available for a few weeks as well.
This isn’t news really, but if you didn’t catch [...]
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Posted on December 4th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Moneyball finds a director. I could barely care less.
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Posted on September 30th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
I’m not sure why I was a little surprised by the recent news that Steven Soderbergh was set to begin production on Knockout, an action film in the vein of La Femme Nikita starring mixed martial artist Gina Carano. Every announcement from Soderbergh is almost willfully unpredictable. The guy clearly likes to mix it up [...]
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Posted on September 7th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Here’s a quick glance at what’s being going on in Venice over the last couple of days.
The Informant! d:Steven Soderbergh
s:Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Melanie Lynskey.
One of the more anticipated films of the fall here at LiC, I was a bit surprised when it turned out Soderbergh was putting a comic spin on what sounded like [...]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Just about everyone has offered an opinion on the Moneyball mess it seems except for Steven Soderbergh. Until now.
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Posted on August 26th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Marvin Hamlisch spreads the cheese for the soundtrack to Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant starring Matt Damon. Can’t wait.
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