entertainment.timesonline.co.uk - 10/23/2009
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Sex and lies. Two pre-eminent subjects that boldly swirl around the inner world of the Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh and just occasionally burst to the surface. Like now, for instance, in the library room of a London hotel, the 46-year-old film-maker behind Erin Brockovich and the ...
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Soderbergh Threatens To Retire Again, Leave Hotels When They Don't Have Porn
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... "I just feel that this is a young person’s game, and I don’t want to be doing this when I’m 50. By then I’ll have made 20-something movies, and that’s a lot,” he told the London Times Online. So, does that mean he’ll be retiring in the next four years? “Oh, I think before that,” he says. Surely he can’t be serious. A workaholic and consummate movie-maker at the height of his powers, with Clooney, the cream of Hollywood, at his feet? ...
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... Stephen Soderbergh has been speaking to The Times while over here at the LFF. As well as sharing his dissatisfaction with the Che films and again threatening to quit directing within the next few short years, he relates an anecdote about changing hotels when he finds his room doesn’t offer porn. I had to wonder if this was a theme interview, riddled with lies in order to promote The Informant! ...
10/26 Oscarweb Round-up
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... meanwhile, gets some face time with the film’s director, Kenny Ortega. [USA Today]
• Five great “making of” movies. [Daily Telegraph]
• John Horn previews AFI Fest. [The Envelope]
• Dave Itzkoff chats up “Antichrist” star Willem Dafoe. [New York Times]
• Across the pond, Steven Soderbergh talks the thematic parallels between his two 2009 films. [The Times]
My Seventy Greatest Films Of The Decade
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... Che (Steven Soderbergh, 2008): Pace, Steven, this was not a mistake. Not at all. Some thoughts on it ...
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