false 386012 2 Steven Soderbergh's cinema-making star has blazed with sex, lies, and videotape, sputtered with The Underneath, and flared again with the acclaimed movie Traffic. Steven Soderbergh: Interviews charts the rise and fall and rise of the writer-director-producer's surprising career from 1989 to 2001. From his "flavor of the month" status with his debut film sex, lies, and videotape to his Academy Award -- winning feature Traffic, Soderbergh's road to success is fraught with ups and downs. On each and every film, the book details such experiences as his creative crisis surrounding his fourth film, The Underneath, and his rejuvenation with the ultra-low budget free-style Schizopolis, and the mainstream achievements that followed with Erin Brockovich and Traffic. Spanning twelve years, these conversations reveal Soderbergh (b. 1963) to be as self-effacing and lighthearted in his later more established years as he was when just starting out. He comes across as a man undaunted by the glitz and powerof Hollywood, remaining, above all, a truly independent filmmaker unafraid to get his hands dirty and pick up the camera himself. Not only do the interviews provide a glimpse into the filmmaker's aesthetics, but they also offer a history of the U.S. independent film movement in the late 1980s and 1990s -- the explosion of "independent films, " studios and film festivals, and the Hollywood co-optation of such talents, Soderbergh included. The collection also reveals the increasingly blurred boundaries between independent and mainstream and Soderbergh's commitment to revitalizing cinema from inside the system. 375708 14 2 2002 Steven Soderbergh: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) total:7|5:2|4:3|3:2| 7 28 14 1 3 0 false false Tue Oct 30 07:18:43 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 07:35:51 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 19:07:02 -0700 2007 Schizopolis. He also directed Traffic and Eric Brokovich and the Oceans 11, 12 movies, which ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Aug 28 22:42:37 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 22:42:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 28 11:35:58 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 11:35:58 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jun 02 03:21:28 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 03:21:28 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 29 21:47:51 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 21:47:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Dec 22 21:47:28 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 21:47:31 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Dec 03 16:29:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 05:13:36 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 16:29:00 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Wed Jun 25 07:16:02 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 07:16:09 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Apr 30 21:09:43 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 21:09:45 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Mar 24 09:10:02 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 02:53:46 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 19:07:13 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 19:07:13 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sat Nov 03 04:53:06 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 04:53:06 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sun Sep 09 07:48:37 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 07:48:41 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Mar 19 18:48:08 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 19 18:48:08 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=386012