Kodi Smit-McPhee is nominated for an Oscar for his work in The Power of the Dog, so it’s safe to say he’ll be in hot demand for upcoming movies.
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Zack Sharf Steven Soderbergh’s directorial career has included Oscar-winning dramas (“Traffic,” “Eric Brockovich”), science-fiction mind-benders (“Solaris”), heist comedies (“Ocean’s Eleven”), historical epics (“Che”) and more, but he has never crossed over into making a Hollywood superhero tentpole. Don’t expect him too, either.Speaking to The Daily Beast ahead of the streaming release of his new thriller “Kimi,” Soderbergh said he’s not approached to direct superhero franchises nor does he envision writing one.
The filmmaker said it’d be almost impossible for him to work in the superhero space since the characters are completely sexless.“I’m not a snob; it’s not that I feel it’s some lower tier in any way. It really becomes about what universe you occupy as a storyteller,” Soderbergh said.
“I’m just too earthbound to really release myself to a universe in which Newtonian physics don’t exist [laughs]. I just have a lack of imagination in that regard, which is why the one foray I had into pure science-fiction [2002’s ‘Solaris’] was essentially a character drama that happened to be set on a spaceship.” “Also, for a lot of these, for me to understand the world and how to write or supervise the writing of the story and the characters — apart from the fact that I can bend time and defy gravity and shoot beams out of my fingers — there’s no fucking,” Soderbergh continued.
Kodi Smit-McPhee is nominated for an Oscar for his work in The Power of the Dog, so it’s safe to say he’ll be in hot demand for upcoming movies.
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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly and Steven Soderbergh just gotta keep on making films, which he does with his 33rd feature narrative title, Kimi, in which the central character’s intense agoraphobia very neatly overlaps with the all-enveloping presence of Covid. It’s a piece that feels like it was quickly made in the heat of the moment and creatively benefits from that edge. The film is also bolstered by the unsettling disruptions of norms, the feeling that the continuation of everyday existence is extremely tenuous. It’s a tight, taut little thriller—the third film Soderbergh has made under Covid conditions–that defines our times as the moment when communication via electric devices has superseded personal one-on-one contact. In this regard, the film clearly represents the time and place it was made.
Zack Sharf Josh Brolin has a bone to pick with the Academy after it nominated “Dune” for 10 Oscars but shut out filmmaker Denis Villeneuve from the director category. “Dune” landed in the best picture race and earned nominations in every individual crafts category, which made Villeneuve’s omission one of the biggest nomination snubs of the year.
borks. And if that sounds like a really terrible idea, if only because it’s more of an invasion of privacy than usual (which is already a lot), “KIMI” agrees with you.
When you call out for KIMI, both the sound and the substance of the voice are comforting. It’s a soft, female sound, providing an affirmation: “I’m here.” KIMI is a virtual assistant, like Siri and Alexa, but with the key difference of “people,” according to the CEO of the company that makes it.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticFor a couple of decades now, Steven Soderbergh’s “little” movies — the lo-fi dramas, often quirky thrillers, that he makes as palette cleansers in between his higher profile projects — have been a pleasurably idiosyncratic, off-on-his-own-cloud thing. Some of them are good (like “Bubble” and “Side Effects”), some are meh (like “Haywire”), and one is great (“The Girlfriend Experience”); none of them make much of an impact in the marketplace.
recently said of Koepp, “There’s a reason he’s the most successful screenwriter in history”). And that’s what we’ve got in “Kimi,” a paranoid techno-thriller debuting Thursday on HBO Max.
The Daily Beast. “Nobody’s f—ing! Like, I don’t know how to tell people how to behave in a world in which that is not a thing.”On Tuesday, “Suicide Squad” director Gunn politely fired back.
Last year, when Marvel Studios released “Eternals,” there was a lot of discussion about the one love scene in the film. Even though it was hardly a love scene and just featured two characters wiggling on top of each other for a few seconds, this is a remarkable achievement because prior to that, there has literally never been overt sexual activity in any of the Marvel Studios films.
Ocean’s Eleven filmmaker was asked in a recent interview with The Daily Beast whether he’s often approached to direct the likes of superhero films and explained why “I just don’t know where to start.”Discussing his difference in taste, Soderbergh clarified “it’s not that I feel it’s some lower tier in any way” and that “I just have a lack of imagination in that regard”.He went on: “For a lot of these, for me to understand the world and how to write or supervise the writing of the story and the characters—apart from the fact that I can bend time and defy gravity and shoot beams out of my fingers—there’s no fucking. Nobody’s fucking!“Like, I don’t know how to tell people how to behave in a world in which that is not a thing.”On respecting audiences’ tastes, he added: “If people want to go experience that universe, that’s fine.
The Daily Beast if he gets asked to make superhero movies, Soderbergh replied “not really” but clarified he has nothing against those types of films. “I’m not a snob; it’s not that I feel it’s some lower tier in any way,” Soderbergh explained.
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