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Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Director Steven Soderbergh's play "Tot Mom" will open Dec. 18 at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia. New proof that the saga of Caylee and Casey Anthony is a worldwide phenomenon: The crime story is becoming a play Down Under.
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Film Junk (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
It's been a long time coming, but Steven Soderbergh's two-part biopic about Argentine-Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara will finally get the full DVD and Blu-ray release that it deserves this coming January. Apparently they had hoped to have it ready for December, but Soderbergh needed extra time to reconstruct deleted scenes and prepare some of the supplementary material. In the words of Criterion president...
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High-Def Digest: Blu-ray Disc News (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Both parts of Steven Soderbergh's critically acclaimed film will hit Blu-ray in January. The Criterion Collection has announced 'Che' starring Benicio Del Toro is coming to Blu-ray on January 19. The 2-disc...
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RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Anyone that reads this site even on a semi-regular basis probably knows I absolutely love Federico Fellini's 8½ and that is one of the major reasons I am so looking forward to Rob Marshall's musical adaptation Nine. So, to learn Criterion is bringing the Fellini classic to Blu-ray with a brand new 52-minute documentary on [...]
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Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Criterion Collection president Peter Becker has explained the slight Che delay (i.e., coming out in January '10 rather than two months hence). The Che Bluray/DVD "is coming, and as you can imagine there's a wealth of great content getting developed," Becker says. "We wanted to be ready for December, but Steven Soderbergh needed time to reconstruct some deleted scenes, and we were also...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Benicio del Toro is asking Puerto Rico to halt a planned monkey-breeding facility, arguing the primates would suffer "extreme animal abuse."
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Sultan Knish (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Nearly a month ago many prominent figures in Hollywood and the international world of film signed the Toronto Declaration pushing for the boycott of a film festival that dared to showcase Israeli films. At the end of this month, many prominent figures in Hollywood and the world of film signed a petition calling for the immediate release of the rapist of a 13 year old girl, who also happens to be a...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
In Steven Soderbergh's new offbeat film The Informant!, a rather incongruously sappy and dramatic piece of music plays during the opening credits while images of tape recorders, notebooks and assorted surveillance equipment appear on screen. The jaunty tune seems to promise romance, mystery and intrigue and brings to mind the vintage film scores of composer Marvin Hamlisch...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
The most talked about movie is not the number one movie of the weekend. The number one movie is (shocker...) a well-reviewed 3D animated family...
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Feeling Listless (Free subscription) | 20/09/2009
Film A.O. Scott tries to confer auteur status on Steven Soderbergh ... "There is a tension within “Solaris,” for example, between the austerity and abstraction of the European art-cinema tradition where its roots lie and the Hollywood genres of romantic melodrama and spaceship adventure toward which it is drawn. And there is an even deeper split within “Che” — between...
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Strange News From The Plankton (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
After missing it during an annoyingly short run at the cinema, we finally caught the second part of Steven Soderbergh 's biographical film Che , about the eponymous Argentinian revolutionary . It provides an solid counterpart to "Part 1" (which we saw a couple of months ago ), and its contrasting story paints a diptych of revolutionary case studies, the first a tale of success, the second...