A Cluster of Ideas on "Contagion"
Ryland Walker KnightA discussion between two Notebook critics on Steven Soderbergh’s globetrotting epidemic thriller, Contagion.
Steven Soderbergh
-
-
Daily Briefing. Chris Fujiwara is Edinburgh's New Artistic Director
David HudsonAlso: Michael Sragow semi-retires, ohn Calley dies and Slate binges on Welles and Soderbergh.
-
Venice 2011. Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion"
David HudsonMost critics get a kick out of Soderbergh’s first all-star blow-out since Ocean’s Thirteen, but some have reservations.
-
Movie Poster of the Week: "The Ides of March" and other new posters
Adrian CurryAfter the feast of design from the 1920s and 30s over the past two weeks I thought it was time to return to the present and look at a few of the more interesting new and recent posters out there. First
-
Video of the day. Trailer for Steven Soderbergh's "Haywire"
Daniel KasmanThe American filmmaker’s new action movie.
-
"Shoah," Spalding Gray, "You Wont Miss Me," More
David Hudson"Returning to movie screens a full generation after its initial 1985 theatrical run, Claude Lanzmann's Shoah has in many ways become obscured by its reputation," writes Eric Hynes in the Voice. "From
-
History Lessons (Pt. 2): Notes on Steven Soderbergh's "Che"
Dave McDougallA TWO-PART SERIES ON STEVEN SODERBERGH'S CHE. *** CHE: PART TWO (GUERRILLA) Part Two of Che begins with images of Bolivian miners. These are not portraits of revolutionaries, but of the need for revolution
-
History Lessons (Pt. 1): Notes on Steven Soderbergh's "Che"
Dave McDougallA TWO-PART SERIES ON STEVEN SODERBERGH'S CHE. *** CHE: PART ONE (THE ARGENTINE) What is a political image? How does it work, and what are the elements that make it work? This is a difficult enough question
-
Life's Work: "And Everything is Going Fine" (Steven Soderbergh, US)
David CairnsSteven Soderbergh first worked with actor/monologue artist/diarist-poet Spalding Gray in 1996, filming the show Gray's Anatomy, which dealt with Gray's health troubles (a problem eye) and anxieties
-
2010 So Far, Part 2. Random Roundups
David HudsonMore of a supplement to Part 1 than a second half, this collection of roundups on films screening at Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlin and SXSW this year is simply the result of my looking back at those four
-
DVDs. Chantal Akerman, "Che," Altman and More
David Hudson"When the Criterion Collection released Chantal Akerman's 1975 masterwork, Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, on DVD last August, it made one of the most influential films of the
-
Middle East International Film Festival: "The Informant!" (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
Daniel KasmanLet's face it, for the past two years Steven Soderbergh has been making highly politicized cinema in a way no American director would dare to—calmly, methodically, and without baiting either press or