Twenty years seems like a long time, until you’re a person of a certain age and that length of time feels like it passes in the blink of an eye. This is the case with the David Fincher film, “Panic Room,” which was released 20 years ago this week. It surely doesn’t feel like two decades have passed since Fincher, along with his cast of Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, and Dwight Yoakam, released the blockbuster thriller.

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It’s rarely discussed these days, or perhaps remembered, but David Fincher’s “Panic Room” was one of his most fraught productions—to this day it probably goes down as Fincher’s most difficult shoot and probably one he does not remember very fondly.

Many may not remember, but Nicole Kidman was originally cast in the lead role, but she left the project two weeks into filming due to a knee injury.

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Steven Soderbergh fans, you know what time it is. Another new year brings us another new comprehensive “Seen, Read” list of films, TV series, books, plays, and other media consumed by the acclaimed filmmaker. And for the astute among us, it allows for speculation galore as we get a peek into the viewing habits of one of the best filmmakers working today. So, with that out of the way, what the hell did Steven Soderbergh watch in 2021. 

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When Steven Soderbergh first announced his next film, “Kimi,” with Zoe Kravitz for HBO Max — the one that’ll arrive after “No Sudden Move,” which is being released today, not much about it was known. It was dubbed a mystery thriller, written by veteran screenwriter David Koepp, and about an “agoraphobic tech worker that stumbles on some evidence of a violent crime over the course of a routine work project.” Intriguing but still slightly vague.

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When you work as an actor on a David Fincher-run set, you are likely going to learn a lot. And for Ben Affleck, who not only stars in Fincher’s “Gone Girl” but has also been a successful director in his own right, he’s definitely learned some lessons from his former director. However, in a new interview with Variety, where Affleck and Fincher discuss the industry, it’s interesting to see how something Fincher learned from the set of “Panic Room” is a lesson that Affleck still remembers to this day.

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The tradition of isolation in cinema, either psychological, physical, or both, is rich and also, a rather modern phenomenon (you don’t see a lot of 1930s movies about people contemplating their existence in a tomb). But isolation in the age of pandemics and social distancing has taken on a new resonance and probably created a new kind of trauma that we’ll be considering the effects of for years.

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Isolation cinema takes on new layers, meaning, and dimensions in the COVID-19 age too.

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It is likely that by December, the year will have seen the release of six Kristen Stewart movies: Tim Blake Nelson‘s “Anesthesia,” Kelly Reichardt‘s “Certain Women,” Olivier Assayas‘ “Personal Shopper,” Ang Lee’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” Drake Doremus‘ “Equals” and Woody Allen‘s “Café Society,” of which those last two open this weekend.

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Claustrophobes Need Not Apply: 16 Single Location Movies

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