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Fresh off the news that Steven Soderbergh's Che has been picked up by IFC Films, now there's word that the director's developing a film based on the last years of singer Liberace. Michael Douglas will star as the flamboyant singer, while Matt Damon is in talks for the role of Liberace's supposed companion of five years. Of course, being so prolific, Mr. Soderbergh still has a few films lined up before he can even get to this, so expect to see Liberace sparkling into theaters sometime in 2010.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/after-che-soderbergh-do-liberace#comments Arts & Culture Movies Liberace Michael Douglas Steven Soderbergh Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:20:45 -0400 Christopher Rosen 75078 at http://www.observer.com Che Gets Snubbed By Biggies, Goes To IFC http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/che-gets-snubbed-biggies-goes-ifc

It seems almost criminally insane that a new Steven Soderbergh movie(s), starring Bencio Del Toro in an awards baiting performance as Che Guevara, wouldn't get picked up by a major studio, but that's just what happened. After a tepid showing at Cannes, and a brief flirtation with Magnolia Films, both parts of Che, the The Argentine and Guerilla, have been scooped up by IFC Films. The studio hasn't stated whether it will release the two films together (with an intermission) or as separate entities, but they have confirmed that Che, in some form, will be appear on screen in NY and LA for an awards qualifying run in December. After that, the film will be hitting select screens around the country and also, your television set, via "IFC in Theaters" video on demand service in January.

Maybe the major studios (and by extension, their boutique wings) were sacred off by the prospect of having to market a potentially four-hour long film with subtitles? Or maybe Mr. Soderbergh's epic is actually pretty lousy? If you believe the reports from Cannes, the movie was met with only slightly less bile than Medellin.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/che-gets-snubbed-biggies-goes-ifc#comments Arts & Culture Movies Benicio Del Toro Steven Soderbergh Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:33:03 -0400 Christopher Rosen 75012 at http://www.observer.com Soderbergh’s Soggy Casino Caper Could Use a Few More Dames http://www.observer.com/2007/soderbergh-s-soggy-casino-caper-could-use-few-more-dames

Clooney is skinny and Pitt is pulchritudinous! But they bring too much man-love to the unnecessary Ocean’s three-quel.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/soderbergh-s-soggy-casino-caper-could-use-few-more-dames#comments Arts & Culture Al Pacino Brad Pitt George Clooney Matt Damon Steven Soderbergh Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:08:11 -0400 Andrew Sarris 55267 at http://www.observer.com The Little Guy Makes It Big! A Critic’s Recycled Storyline http://www.observer.com/node/38857 In 1989, Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival gave us the premiere of a seductive low-budge  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/38857#comments Arts & Culture David O. Russell Hollywood James Mottram Steven Soderbergh Sun, 21 May 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Jake Brooks 38857 at http://www.observer.com Three Directors Look for Eros-The Search, Seductively Obscure http://www.observer.com/node/50736 More auteurist than erotic, Eros consists of three short films directed by Wong Kar Wai, Steven Sode  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/50736#comments Arts & Culture Michelangelo Antonioni Sean Penn Steven Soderbergh Wong Kar-wai Sun, 01 May 2005 20:00:00 -0400 Andrew Sarris 50736 at http://www.observer.com Satisfying Mr. Soderbergh: Warner's Executive Search http://www.observer.com/node/47589 On the Warner Bros.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/47589#comments Real Estate Albert Warner Miramax Film Corp. Steven Soderbergh Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Sun, 25 May 2003 20:00:00 -0400 Rebecca Traister 47589 at http://www.observer.com The Hours Will Win Awards By More Than a Schnozz http://www.observer.com/node/46846 Stephen Daldry's The Hours , from the screenplay by David Hare, based on the novel by Michael Cunnin  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/46846#comments Arts & Culture Andrei Tarkovsky Michael Cunningham Steven Soderbergh Virginia Woolf Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:00:00 -0500 Andrew Sarris 46846 at http://www.observer.com Mooning Clooney Can't Save Solaris http://www.observer.com/node/46808 As bad movies go, a dismal catastrophe called Solaris can't go away fast enough to suit me.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/46808#comments Arts & Culture Charlie Kaufman George Clooney Steven Soderbergh Susan Orlean Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:00:00 -0500 Rex Reed 46808 at http://www.observer.com The New Ship of Fools http://www.observer.com/node/46313 Hollywood is the new Ship of Fools, and with a boring, amateurish, incomprehensible and stupefyingly  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/46313#comments Arts & Culture Adolf Hitler Hollywood Julia Roberts Steven Soderbergh Sun, 04 Aug 2002 20:00:00 -0400 Rex Reed 46313 at http://www.observer.com Soderbergh's Hollywood-Through Clouded Windows http://www.observer.com/node/46314 Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal , from a screenplay by Coleman Hough, makes me suspect sadly that t  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/46314#comments Arts & Culture Coleman Hough Hollywood Steven Soderbergh Wu Ying Sun, 04 Aug 2002 20:00:00 -0400 Andrew Sarris 46314 at http://www.observer.com