Steven Soderbergh

[diamonds]

Soderbergh's got a new film premiering at Sundance in 2024: Presence, scripted by David Koepp.

A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone. Cast: Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, Julia Fox, Eddy Maday, West Mulholland.

...we’re told it’s something of a ghost story; it was shot this summer in secret under an indie SAG waiver (meaning, it was shot and edited in about six months), and while shot on the quick, it was not shot on the iPhone like Soderbergh’s last horror-ish project “Unsane” in 2018.

[jazzo]

There was also an Extension 765 update a couple of days ago with absolutely no mention of box sets. But, hey - order yourself a baseball cap!

[flyonthewall2983]

The Ocean’s trilogy is being put out on 4K this year, as individual titles as opposed to a box set.

[pzadvance]

There is also a box set coming

[flyonthewall2983]

Ooh nice

[therewillbeblus]

Revisiting Ocean's Twelve and Schizopolis in close succession made me realize that the former is basically the latter's vibe in disguise - a sublime virus supplanting the world of Blockbuster Movie Star Paradise of "Cool" with ironic farce. I've already written a love letter to the movie, but I never deciphered the specific connections between the two films - a silly oversight considering what Soderbergh is doing in revealing silly and exasperated and passionately inspired sides of himself in very unique ways for him, compared to the rest of his oeuvre by this point in his career

[The Narrator Returns]

Those two are definitely very closely linked in their senses of humor and glee at disregarding whatever expectations the audience might have for them (Soderbergh himself admitted on the O12 commentary that the Matsui scene appeals almost exclusively to those who like Schizopolis), not to mention the romantic melancholy running through their veins. I think of The Informant! as the capper to that trilogy, returning to Schizopolis's absurdist workplace comedy and fully annihilating the central movie star in an apocalypse of meaningless language.

[therewillbeblus]

I think of The Informant! as the capper to that trilogy, returning to Schizopolis's absurdist workplace comedy and fully annihilating the central movie star in an apocalypse of meaningless language.

I was thinking the same thing, though hardly surprising!