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STEVEN SODERBERGH

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 20, 2019
Localization 101: How to release a Steven Soderbergh film in Japan
Hollywood sends its products all over the world but global audiences can have widely different experiences of the same Hollywood movie. In Italy, dubbing foreign films is standard; in Japan, subtitling is, though dubbing has become more common, especially for films targeted at younger audiences.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Feb 22, 2018
Steven Soderbergh's thriller 'Unsane' shot on iPhone premieres in Berlin
Director Steven Soderbergh said on Wednesday he so enjoyed making his psychological thriller "Unsane" on an iPhone, he would find it hard to go back to conventional filmmaking.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 16, 2017
Steven Soderbergh looks to get 'Lucky' with a new distribution model for films
He's been away for such a short time, you may not have noticed Steven Soderbergh had even stopped making movies. In 2013, the director — who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his 1989 debut, "Sex, Lies, and Videotape," when he was just 26 years old — announced his retirement from filmmaking, citing frustrations with the way Hollywood movies were produced and distributed.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 11, 2017
Cliff Martinez: composing through the chaos
So much movie music sounds like just that: movie music. It's rare these days to come across a score with character that really makes you sit up and listen.
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Jan 11, 2017
'The Knick': Still gnarlier than 'The Walking Dead'
A number of auteurs have dabbled in TV series, such as David Fincher with "House of Cards" and Martin Scorsese with "Vinyl"; but with "The Knick," Steven Soderbergh becomes the first to hands-on direct every episode of a show from beginning to end. The result is a two-season arc of absolutely gripping television, now available on Hulu.jp.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 21, 2016
The bad year that pervaded the screens
The past year has been a cursed one. It began with the death of David Bowie and proceeded to get worse on every level: political hysteria, impending ecological doom, the creeping encroach of net-connected tech into every corner of our lives, and a blurring of the lines between fantasy and reality now known as "post-truth." It was not a great year for cinema — as the gazillion-dollar franchises increasingly shoved everything else to the margins — but the best films seemed both timely and truthful, speaking directly to the chaos of 2016.

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