La Femme Nikita Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/la-femme-nikita/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:02:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png La Femme Nikita Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/la-femme-nikita/ 32 32 Steven Soderbergh Likens His ‘Knockout’ Action Movie To ‘Point Blank’ & ‘Bond’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/steven-soderbergh-likens-his-knockou-20090930/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/steven-soderbergh-likens-his-knockou-20090930/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:20:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6041 Steven Soderbergh looooves John Boorman’s “Point Blank,” the 1967 existential thriller that’s a bit like if Alain Resnais made an action movie and stars Lee Marvin. It’s not like he hides its grand influence over him either, and he’s admitted several times that the temporal shifting in “The Limey,” is greatly indebted to the picture. He’s referenced it endlessly and went so far as to do the commentary track on the DVD with Boorman (it’s really essential listening).

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]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/steven-soderbergh-likens-his-knockou-20090930/feed/ 3 Steven Soderbergh Hires Female Fighting Champion For ‘La Femme Nikita’ Meets ‘Bourne’ Film Project, Called ‘Knockout’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/steven-soderbergh-hires-female-fighting-20090906/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/steven-soderbergh-hires-female-fighting-20090906/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:13:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6308 You apparently cannot keep a good director down. Despite the “Moneyball” drama earlier this year — of which the filmmaker shrugged and moved on in a response yesterday — Steven Soderbergh remains undeterred.

Not only that, he seems to have a penchant for females who are untested in their acting abilities and bringing out something in them that others clearly haven’t noticed. Earlier this year he directed “The Girlfriend Experience” with non-actor and porn actress Sasha Grey and now he’s lined-up his post-“Moneyball” project with yet another non-professional.

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