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  Steven Soderbergh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and Oscar-winning director.
Soderbergh was born to parents with Swedish ancestry.
Steven Soderbergh is a fan of the rock band Guided by Voices and its frontman Robert Pollard.
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 Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1963.
Soderbergh uses his camera to describe that space, the location and state-of-mind, as squalid and exposed: LA's blue skies are compromised by the smog, the sunshine is too bright in most places, with not enough real cloud cover to provide the necessary filters.
Soderbergh, on the other hand, is interested in baring to the audience the structure of narrative drive and does this through disputing hierarchical claims to truthfulness using editing and overlapping narratives as means through which this can be achieved.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/soderbergh.html   (2929 words)

  
 CNN.com - Entertainment - Steven Soderbergh is busy, happy, planning next film - December 26, 2000
Soderbergh: To try and go into the (drug) story and pretend that there are sort of good guys and bad guys in the traditional sense would be a huge mistake.
Soderbergh: I was thinking of the people who are on both ends of this policy issue, and whose job it is to sort of render an opinion about what we should do about the drug war.
Soderbergh: The good thing of having more than one thing going on at one time is that you don't get tired of each one, and it keeps each one from being too precious.
archives.cnn.com /2000/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/26/steven.soderbergh   (970 words)

  
 Steven Soderbergh --[ EDITING ROOM ] SCENE 360
Gaining credibility through independent movies, Soderbergh shot films such as "Kafka" (which gave him a chance to work with great actors, including Jeremy Irons), "King of the Hill," "Underneath," and "Schizopolis," all which did not heat up the audiences.
Soderbergh has always stayed away from publicity, limiting his exposure only to that connected to promoting his films and preferring to live a less "star bright" Hollywood lifestyle.
Soderbergh is an actors' director who treats his performers as stars.
www.scene360.com /EDITINGroom_Soderbergh.html   (1237 words)

  
 Salon Arts & Entertainment | Emotion, truth and celluloid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
And Soderbergh's "The Limey," which opened last fall and ranks high on many a 10-best list, is an unexpectedly touching act of hard-boiled cinematic seduction.
Soderbergh puts this basic thriller setup into a time-hopping form that resembles an elaborate paper cutout -- the kind that comes all raveled up and reveals its true meaning when the last piece is uncovered.
Soderbergh's readers were the first in their arthouse or multiplex to hear the name of "Being John Malkovich" screenwriter Charlie Kaufman.
archive.salon.com /ent/col/srag/2000/01/06/soderbergh   (1345 words)

  
 Steven Soderbergh
Soderbergh then startled the international film community in 1989 when he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with sex, lies, and videotape at age 26.
Adding an element of psychodrama, Soderbergh also cast his ex-wife, actress Betsy Brantley, in scenes that wickedly parodied their disintegrated five-year marriage.
Soderbergh lives in Los Angeles and has a daughter from his first marriage.
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 NEWS | MAGAZINE | VOLUME 25-5 JANUARY 2001
For some cultures, 13 is the age at which a boy becomes a man. For Steven Soderbergh, 13 was the age at which he became a filmmaker.
Soderbergh's latest film, Traffic, is the ambitious weaving of three stories that show the outside, inside and underneath of the drug trade and is sure to instigate dialogues and debate.
Soderbergh, who recently took top honors at both the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and the National Board of Review for both Erin Brockovich and Traffic, revealed to DGA Magazine how he keeps track of all of this Traffic.
www.dga.org /news/v25_5/feat_soderbergh.php3   (2988 words)

  
 Steven Soderbergh - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With his chunky, horn-rimmed glasses swiped from Lisa Loeb, Steven Soderbergh looks just like what he is -- the Geek King of Hollywood.
Apparently nothing can stop the Soderbergh juggernaut -- shooting on his remake of the 1960 Rat Pack vehicle "Ocean's 11" is slated to begin next year with more A-list stars than a British tabloid, including Julia Roberts, Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon.
Soderbergh admits he was coasting for several years following his initial triumph, and "Getting Away With It" reveals a generous portion of his dissatisfaction at that time with filmmaking, his critics and himself.
dir.salon.com /people/conv/2000/12/20/soderbergh   (754 words)

  
 Film Comment: Hired Gun - Steven Soderbergh - Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Soderbergh had stalled as an independent filmmaker and had yet to establish himself as Hollywood's smartest, most unassuming in-demand director for hire.
Soderbergh hit the ground running in 1989 with sex, lies, and videotape, which met with delirious acclaim at both Sundance and Cannes, and effectively marked the kickoff of the Nineties independent film boom.
Soderbergh had suddenly decided to stop making sense, and even if some of its comic conceits seem strained, there's a giddy feeling of breakdown and liberation in Schizopolis.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1069/is_1_37/ai_69752516   (382 words)

  
 Steven Soderbergh:
Steven Soderbergh was born Jan. 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Ga. and was raised in Baton Rouge, La. He was the second child of six.
Steven played baseball for many years and was one of the best ball players that you could find in Baton Rouge.
When Steven first saw the movie Jaws that was all it took for him to know what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.
www.freewebs.com /stevensoderbergh   (643 words)

  
 Solaris: Soderbergh's ravishing lament for lost love. By David Edelstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Reportedly, Soderbergh's first cut prompted the same sort of responses in test audiences, and the director was pressured to cut half an hour—to trim longueurs and an explicit sex scene and to add a bit more solace to the finale.
Soderbergh has once more photographed a film under the name "Peter Andrews." After this summer's Full Frontal, which looked defiantly rotten, I thought that the best thing that could happen to him as a director would be for "Peter Andrews" to fall off a bridge.
Soderbergh's staging and framing played against Clooney's physical size and appeal: sometimes unmanning him by equating him in stature with his wife, sometimes using the lens to squeeze him dry.
www.slate.com /?id=2074623   (2063 words)

  
 Steven Soderbergh Online     |     StevenSoderbergh.net
Steven Soderbergh is doing a an High-Def film with the next issue of the DVD quarterly magazine Wholphin, due out in mid-May. No news on the title of the short.
Dollard, Oscar-winning Steven Soderbergh's longtime agent, is in an Iraqi hospital recovering from a roadside bomb attack that temporarily sidelined his project to produce a documentary series on life with the marines in Iraq.
Soderbergh has been quoted in recent interviews saying he want to focus on directing and Clooney, too, has said he wanted to turn his sites back to acting and directing and away from producing.
www.stevensoderbergh.net   (8707 words)

  
 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Steven Soderbergh: Man of promise
The acclaim lavished on American director Steven Soderbergh for Traffic and Erin Brockovich marks a welcome return for the maker of Sex, Lies and Videotape.
Soderbergh was born in Georgia on 14 January 1963 but grew up in Baton Rouge Louisiana, where his father was the dean of Louisiana State University's College of Education.
As a high school pupil, Soderbergh enrolled in the university's film animation class where he began making short 16mm films with second-hand equipment.
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 TIME.com: Soderbergh's Choice -- Page 1
Life as Steven Soderbergh then knew it came to end when he was 12 years old.
By the time he was in high school, Soderbergh was taking classes in the film department of Louisiana State University (where his father taught education).
"Steven jumps from one venue to another better than anybody." When the Hollywood Foreign Press Association handed down its Golden Globe nominations for 2000, Soderbergh's amazing versatility was rewarded with two directing nods--one for Traffic and one for Erin Brockovich.
www.time.com /time/sampler/article/0,8599,93315,00.html   (1109 words)

  
 Out of Sight : an online tribute to steven soderbergh
Oscar Nominations are in and Steven Soderbergh has picked up not one, but two (count 'em) Best Director Nominations.
The 58th Golden Globe Awards is now over and Steven Soderbergh appears to have split his votes, as Ang Lee won Best Director for CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (this is OK by me, if Soderbergh was going to lose at least it was to Ang Lee).
Naturally, I started looking for some Steven Soderbergh webpages, and to my complete shock, I only found one, and it was the page I created a year-and-a-half ago.
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 HBO: K Street: Cast & Crew
Steven Soderbergh not only works behind the camera as a director, but behind the scenes as a producer for a variety of projects.
Jacobs and Soderbergh wrote the script, which is based on the screenplay by Fabian Bielinsky.
Soderbergh's other credits as producer include Greg Mottola's "The Daytrippers" and Gary Ross' "Pleasantville." He was executive producer on Scott McGhee's "Suture," and Godfrey Reggio's "Naqoyqatsi," the final installment of the non- narrative films that make up the Qatsi Trilogy, beginning with "Koyaanisqatsi" and "Powaqqatsi".
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 Barnes & Noble.com - Erin Brockovich -- Steven Soderbergh - DVD - Wide Screen
A long-awaited commercial smash from acclaimed art-house director Steven Soderbergh and a personal triumph for star Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich energizes audiences with its unique combination of humor, pathos, and suspense.
Soderbergh (The Limey) directs in an appealingly straightforward manner, allowing his leggy star to dominate this contemporary David-and-Goliath story with her most vital performance to date.
Erin Brockovich was directed by Steven Soderbergh; Julia Roberts earned a $20 million payday for her work on the film, the highest salary paid to a female film star up to that time.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=25192078323&pwb=1   (1396 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Steven Soderbergh: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series): Books: Anthony Kaufman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Steven Soderbergh: Interviews features conversations with the director that originally appeared in publications like Rolling Stone and the Village Voice, spanning from 1989 to 2000.
Soderbergh's career from his first feature film through his Oscar win for "Traffic." Most of the interviews are brief, and the book an easy read; however, most readers will find it unsatisfying and even tedious.
Soderbergh's own books--his published screenplay-with-journal for "sex, lies, and videotape" or his "Getting Away with It, Or: The Further Adventures of the Luckiest Bastard You Ever Saw," a series of conversations with filmmaker Richard Lester interwoven with more of Mr.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1578064295?v=glance   (824 words)

  
 Steven Soderbergh | The A.V. Club
In 1989, director Steven Soderbergh's first feature, sex, lies and videotape, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, then became a surprise commercial hit.
In 1996, Soderbergh released his film of a Spalding Gray monologue, Gray's Anatomy, and followed it the next year with Schizopolis, a highly experimental, wickedly funny satire starring the director and his ex-wife.
Soderbergh took his experimental side mainstream with 1998's Out Of Sight, an Elmore Leonard adaptation that fractured time to great effect, bringing out the profundity always just beneath the surface of the best pulp.
www.avclub.com /content/node/22932   (2413 words)

  
 'Bubble' Vision
The murder mystery by Steven Soderbergh is an experiment both aesthetically -- the movie was shot here, on high-definition digital video, using amateur actors and only the bare bones of a script -- and as a business venture.
Soderbergh, who since bursting on the scene in 1989 with the film "sex, lies, and videotape" and in 2001 winning an Oscar for "Traffic" has become one of the most prolific and well-regarded filmmakers in Hollywood, speaks in his signature measured, common-sense cadence.
As the first prominent Hollywood director to cede such control, Soderbergh is clearly casting his lot with the digital-technology industry, whose decentralized, models of information gathering and delivery have revolutionized nearly every business they've touched.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/20/AR2006012000423.html   (848 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: Save up to 30% on bestselling DVDs. Free shipping within Canada available on orders over $39   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Steven Soderbergh's magnum opus on the drug war, Traffic offers yet another one of the director's efforts to take conventionally engrossing, Hollywood-formula material and imbue it with a sense of authenticity, unpredictability, and vitality, much as he did with his wildly successful Erin Brockovich...
Steven Soderbergh's follow-up to his sexy thriller Out of Sight is an equally stylish but far more austere crime drama, a work of memory that mixes flashbacks, flashforwards, and ruminations on the present into an invigorating cinematic quilt.
The second series created by executive producers George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh for HBO, Unscripted follows the exploits of three unknown actors attempting to make it big in tinsel town.
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 Steven Soderbergh @ Filmbug
In 2000, Soderbergh and George Clooney formed Section Eight, a film production company based at Warner Bros. After their inaugural production, Ocean's Eleven they executive produced Far From Heaven, written and directed by Todd Haynes.
In April, 2004 Soderbergh began production on Ocean's Twelve, which reunites the entire cast of the 2001 hit plus Catherine Zeta-Jones and internationally acclaimed actor Vincent Cassel.
Soderbergh's other credits as producer include Greg Mottola's The Daytrippers and Gary Ross' Pleasantville.
www.filmbug.com /db/986   (296 words)

  
 Steven Soderbergh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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