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If you’re Steven Soderbergh, coming off box-office success and an Oscar win, what do you do next? Make a low-budget, shot-on-video quickie that almost nobody will love, of course! Join us for the skinny on “Full Frontal” (2002).

Mike’s one-sentence summary:

The lives of an eclectic cast of characters collide over the course of a single day, confronting difficult truths about themselves, others, and the opposite, all while making a movie written by the characters in the movie . . . or, at least that’s what I think happens.

This is our longest episode yet, but we think it’s one of our best ones! (And at least it’s not longer than the movie we’re discussing.)

So far this season, we’ve discussed Steven Soderbergh’s first eleven movies in the order of their release. Today we’re pressing pause and to something different—we’re going to talk about the movies Steven Soderbergh DIDN’T make!

Just Mike and Keir, a couple of bros, discussing Steven Soderbergh’s bro-fest, “Ocean’s Eleven.” The star-studded caper just happens to be his eleventh movie, too—what a Soderbergh move to make the stars align like that! It makes us both want to gaze dreamily at the Bellagio fountain…

Keir’s one-sentence summary:

After his release from prison, professional thief Danny Ocean assembles a crew of ten other pros to steal $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos—even though for him it’s not really about the money, but emasculating the casino owner his ex-wife, Tess, has fallen for.

Join us next week on the Filmographers Podcast, when we’ll discuss what Soderbergh did with all the loot from “Ocean’s Eleven.” (Spoiler: he wrote a manifesto and made an art film.)

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Stephen Soderbergh is having the best year of his career. “Erin Brockovich,” released in March, has been raking in the cash and is predicted to do well in awards season. But he’s about to upstage himself with ANOTHER film at the end of December: the sprawling war-on-drugs drama “Traffic.”
 
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CreditsKeir Graff & Michael Moreci, hostsKevin Lau, producerGompson, theme musicCosmo Graff, graphic design

Steven Soderbergh is on an artistic and critical winning streak, and now, as the new millennium begins, he’s about to finally find box-office success again . . . and maybe win an Oscar, too. (If only he can beat that pesky Steven Soderbergh for Best Director.)
 
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In 1999, as many of his peers take Hollywood by storm, Steven Soderbergh returns to his low-budget indie roots with “The Limey.” Will he maintain his career momentum or succumb to the malaise that defined most of his 1990s efforts? The answer is . . . complicated. 
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CreditsKeir Graff & Michael Moreci, hostsKevin Lau, producerGompson, theme musicCosmo Graff, graphic design