Steven Soderbergh has been his ever-prolific self of late, with his limited series “Full Circle” premiering on Max last week and dropping yet another series, “Command Z,” exclusively on his website over the weekend. And NYC moviegoers lucky enough to be in the loop caught “Command Z” at a secret screening at the Metrograph last weekend, too, with Soderbergh in attendance for a Q&A.

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America is not okay.

Maybe America has never been okay. Maybe certain members of our society are just now starting to realize this fact. In any case, the Band-Aid of civility has been ripped from our flesh, the fissures and wounds of our great American experiment now exposed for what they are: bruised ideals, a great many of which are built on fallacies.

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The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is not the only reason that protestors around the country are currently squaring off with police forces and the National Guard.

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Steven Soderbergh is “back” next week with “Logan Lucky,” and though everyone likes to play with the narrative that he was gone, that’s not really the case. While the director did step away from feature films for a bit, he was still working ridiculously hard, shooting and editing two seasons of the outstanding “The Knick” himself. He’s also got his HBO project “Mosaic” on the way, he’s producing next summer’s “Ocean’s 8,” and probably has a few more things in the works we don’t even know about yet.

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When Michael Cimino passed away this summer, the director behind “The Deer Hunter” and “Heaven’s Gate” hadn’t helmed a film since 1996’s “The Sunchaser.” However, apparently it was not for lack of trying.

Vincent Maraval, founder of French production company Wild Bunch, has revealed to Sofilm that he had been working with Cimino on a handful of projects over the years, none of which came to fruition, but all of which are pretty fascinating.

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Rope of Silicon, for example, did a commendable job transcribing Soderbergh quotes from the DVD, but these were all things he said in the press before (i.e., “I want to retire,” “Does cinema matter?” It seemed he was delivered a big emotional blow by his perceived failure of the film — how it was downloaded, neglected, etc.).

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Does that mean, “Knockout,” “Liberace,” “Cleo,” the 2nd Spalding Gray doc, maybe another lo-fi Magnet film, and one more maybe if we’re lucky?

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First up is the company’s long-awaited DVD and BluRay release of “Che”, which if anything, should please Jeffrey Wells. As Peter Becker promised, the release has been worth the wait as the 3-disc DVD or 2-disc BluRay is completely stacked with extras.

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Well Criterion announced their line-up for December (which amounted to October and November titles being pushed into December) and the end of the year so what gives?

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When you get such a raw deal and become a scapegoat, it’s probably best to stay quiet and let the media maelstrom pass and get over itself and Soderbergh basically did just that.

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Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist”
If “Bronson” shocked us, then “Antichrist” can only be described as a straight up assault. We’re still trying piece it all together. The film is split into four chapters, beginning with a phenomenal slow-motion prologue that details the tragic death of the son of our protagonists, (played by William Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg). The first chapter features fascinating dichotomous therapist-patient, husband-wife exchanges between Dafoe and Gainsbourg, but in Chapter 2, things take a turn and by the time the film explores the idea of ‘The Three Beggars,’ we were already totally out of it.

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Of course, there was the ugly and widely publicized cancellation of “Moneyball”, and now in the “In My Opinion” column in the latest issue of DGA Quarterly, Soderbergh has written a very candid, funny and scathing piece on HD channels that butcher widescreen films.

Non-aspect ratio nerds take note, this might be Greek. In particular, he speaks about films in 2.40:1 that are blown up or chopped to fit the 16:9 ratio of current television sets.

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His two-part epic “Che” is available on DVD and Blu-ray now in the U.K. so presumably this is the reason why he’s doing press across the pond.

But don’t look for answers about “Moneyball,” either the U.K. press is not asking or he’s simply not talking.

This conversation is strictly about “Che” and the man sounds defeated and rather depressed at the mixed response he got from the film and the adventurous way they presented the film with the road show of two parts.

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Rather esoteric initially, the clues in these newsletters have been getting more explicit in recent months (what else could a mechanical scarab be, besides Guillermo del Toro’s “Cronos”?), and this picture of a parrot with a Che T-shirt on and the caption, “This fall, Criterion welcomes you to the jungle,” seems to directly point to “Che” (see image below).

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We’ve championed “Che” a lot here mostly because it’s one of our favorite films of 2008 and lots of readers in smaller cities would always write in bemoaning the fact that they lived in megaplex nowheresville and would probably never get a chance to see it.

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David Carr started the “If I Ran The Academy” meme listing 1o things you would change in this year’s Oscars if you had magical powers and then Jeff Wells joined in. So the 10 things we would change if We Ran The Academy would go something like this:

1. “Che” would be a Best Picture nominee.
2. Kristin Scott Thomas would have secured herself a Best Actress nod for “I’ve Loved You So Long” and been the frontrunner.

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del Toro won the Best Actor award at the Spanish Goya Awards (their Oscars) yesterday in Madrid according to the BBC.

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Some picks have been listed individually. Mine, Mickey Pagels, and Nick Plowman of Fataculture, but now that the math is done, our group Playlist Top 10 goes like this.

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So yeah, conceivably, if you have the stamina, you two can see the whole ambitious enterprise in one sitting only with convenient pause bathroom breaks, a plethora of snacks and in your underwear if you so choose.

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We wonder if they’ll be a poster for “The Argentine.” All we know is we want one and we certainly want a “Che” DVD when it eventually comes out too. We hope that’s loaded with extras and any scenes that were cut from the film.

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Fear not, those of you living in smaller markets, the “Che” Roadshow release/ experiment that IFC has put on has done so well in NY and L.A., (it was even extended beyond the original one-week plan in mid December), that is is now moving to markets in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis, Seattle, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, DC starting on next Friday, January 16.

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At the same time, if we had to lay money down on the technical sub-categories right now, we’d probably lose our shirts.

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There’s been some criticism about your accent in the movie. You speak in a Caribbean Spanish accent while Che Guevara had an Argentine one. Was there a reason you made that choice?
Where’d you read that? It was mentioned in the Variety review, among other places.
What do they know?

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