Despite having Brad Pitt attached, the New York Times reports that Sony has scuttled Steven Soderbergh's big screen adaptation of the baseball book Moneyball (2003), two weeks before shooting was to begin. He's the key passage: "Representatives of Sony . . . described a process in which the heady thrill of a film rushing toward production was ( Read more... )

Salon's independent film critic, Andrew O'Hehir, has published a transcript and podcast of his interview with Steven Soderbergh about Soderbergh's new film THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE (2009). I wrote about Soderbergh and his career in my review of OCEAN'S THIRTEEN (2007). In THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE, Soderbergh follows his approach from the film ( Read more... )

This is an art film, and that's not a bad thing, necessarily ( Read more... )

This is a really great film ( Read more... )

This is an opportunity to write about both an interesting director, and an interesting film ( Read more... )