A lot of great things can be said about Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike. It’s honest and warm, it’s friendly in a very unfriendly background, it’s demeaning but also respectful, and it’s fun, although dealing with a handful of sad situations. It’s humorous but remains realistic, and it’s shocking in a Read More
Steven Soderbergh’s Kafka is a mysterious sort. It’s as though the director has attempted to embody various aspects of the writer’s essence in his film – rather than adapt one of his novels, or form a biopic which deals exclusively with what is known of his life. In this film, Franz Kafka himself, portrayed curiously (and purposefully so) by Jeremy Irons, is the central character, while the events that he finds himself dealing with have been influenced by the events in his novels – notably “The Castle”.
It was in 1989, at the age of 26 that Steven Soderbergh returned to the place of his childhood, Baton Rouge in Louisiana. After graduating from high school he had chosen not to attend Louisiana State University where he had been enrolled in and instead moved to Hollywood to try his Read More
News of an inspired Steven Soderbergh is always exciting and while I found myself tight in the grasp of hypochondria for over a week after sitting through last year’s Contagion, I was also powerfully struck by yet further proof of the director’s unmatched creativity and curiosity. He’d said, on being asked Read More
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