Welcome to Steven Soderbergh’s Salon des Refusés, a weekly drop of creative detritus from the closet/hard drive of the artist soon to be known as Steven Soderbergh.
- Psychos: a mashup by Soderbergh of Hitchcock’s original ‘Psycho’ and Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot remake from 1998
- A few words about Josef von Sternberg, who is worthy of attention for a number of reasons
- The Forty-Year Rule: ‘Chinatown’
- Movies, TV series, books and plays seen, read in 2013
- Alan McCabe: “I never set up a shot in the anamorphic format without thinking of Alan McCabe, and neither should you”
Steven Soderbergh is one of the most articulate and fascinating thinkers on film out there. The following is required listening, here’s to the king of the DVD guest commentary.
- Soderbergh and Tony Gilroy discuss one of their favorite films, ‘The Third Man.’ directed by Carol Reed. This track was recorded exclusively for the Criterion Collection in 2007.
- “For the Warner DVD edition of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ the studio had Steven Soderbergh conduct an interview with director Mike Nichols and the result is one of the wittiest and most sophisticated commentary tracks ever. For the running time of the film, a listener is given the feeling of being in a private screening room with two Hollywood titans as they talk about a very important picture.”
- Soderbergh performs a sarcastic mock interview with himself throughout the duration of the ‘Schizopolis.‘ This is, perhaps, the funniest audio commentary ever recorded.
- The Limey filmmaker commentary track: Soderbergh and screenwriter Lem Dobbs (a 53,000 word masterpiece of an interview with the screenwriter Lem Dobbs) discuss their film ‘The Limey.’ While discussing the film, Dobbs bluntly criticizes Soderbergh for perceived “flaws” in the film and Soderbergh is put on the defensive for much of the commentary. Note: The chronology of this commentary track was intentionally jumbled by the studio to resemble the non-chronological ordering of the films narrative. It was intended to be this way. Bits of dialogue from Soderbergh and Dobbs conversation is replayed multiple times throughout the track as well. Again, this was how the track was meant to be.
- John Boorman and Soderbergh provide a fascinating commentary track included on the DVD of Point Blank. [thanks to Vashi Nedomansky]
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