![]() ![]() Or readily embraced shooting movies on iPhones. Or who helped innovate the day-and-date theater/VOD split with Bubble. ![]() No surprise for his fans: This is the director who immediately followed the 12-month run of Traffic, Erin Brockovich, and Ocean’s Eleven with Full Frontal (I’ll give you a second to look it up) and Solaris (maybe his best film it got an F CinemaScore). Lest it seem Soderbergh’s resting easy, July also saw the surprise premiere of Command Z, a project that blurs the line between film and series and - despite also shooting in New York - breaks from most anything Full Circle resembles or even suggests. It blends readily identifiable actors (Timothy Olyphant, Claire Danes, Dennis Quaid, CCH Pounder) with a cast of up-and-comers its location work puts most other New York productions to shame and as a sprawling narrative it is more or less impossible to guess the who-what-when-where-why of its unfolding. The show feels equal parts Soderbergh and Solomon, the latter again imprinting his interest in secrets as crime’s great motivator - especially as those secrets uphold the public face of generational wealth - while the former’s directing-editing-cinematographer duties make it immediately identifiable after, say, one second. But for the wealthy targets, the incident spills decades’ worth of skeletons from the closet - and a conspiracy across two continents, two families, and multiple generations reaping what’s been sown. In Full Circle, a child is kidnapped off the streets of New York - just not the one the kidnappers were trying to kidnap. In 2017, the two ever-so-slightly broke apart the possibilities of narrative and distribution with Mosaic, an interactive, app-based, deliriously entertaining murder mystery (no longer online but since re-edited by Soderbergh into a strong HBO series) 2021 brought No Sudden Move, an Elmore Leonard-esque thriller far more surprising and experiment-friendly than its streaming debut might suggest and now they’re back with the complex, formally audacious miniseries Full Circle on Max. Rebel, wunderkind, trendsetter, pioneer, one-man band - all labels applied to Steven Soderbergh more regularly than, say, “winner of the Academy Award for Best Director” or “youngest-ever Palme d’Or recipient.” Whatever the filmmaker’s independent-leaning bona fides (and the list goes deeper than any one person can keep in their head simultaneously), Soderbergh’s current run is a fertile, three-medium collaboration with Men in Black and Bill & Ted screenwriter Ed Solomon. ![]()
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