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The 10 Best Films Of 1998

Jessica Kiang — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 17:30:09 +0000

For the past two weeks, we’ve been looking back at the ’90s, with our year-by-year rundown of the decade’s best movies. Right now, we’re hurtling toward the millennium and are up to 1998 (you can check out 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997 at your leisure), the year in which not one but two meteorites threatened to wipe out humanity but obliterated the box office instead (“Armageddon” and “Deep Impact” were the number 1 and number 6 highest-grossing films that year).

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Steven Soderbergh Taking On Theater Directing Gig For Cate Blanchett’s Sydney Theater Company?

Rodrigo Perez — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:47:00 +0000

How to disappear completely? When the going gets tough, do the tough do theater? Yesterday we noted an interview with the U.K. press where director Steven Soderbergh seemed defeated and exasperated with the climate in cinema (conservative, scared, lookin’ to make a buck) and threatened, once again, to retire from film early in three, four more years. Many of us speculated that this could be the director venting his frustrations and that he would probably take a year off before quitting out right.

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Rewind: “Out Of Sight” Soundtrack

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:53:00 +0000

In semi-celebration (or contextual excuse) of the frat-packers “Ocean’s Thirteen” goofoff/finale, we thought we’d look back on David Holmes’ first Stephen Soderbergh score for “Out Of Sight.”

In contrast to his busy and snappy cool cats ‘Ocean’s’ scores (a hip exotica concoction of sharp, well-dressed and whimsical beats tethered to deep funk cuts and groovy acid jazz), the ‘Sight’ score sports a slower, sexier groove; subtler and lush with chilled-out trip-hop flavors that were still de riguer at the time.

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