IN 1988 The New York Review of Books dispatched Joan Didion to report on the presidential election, an assignment that resulted in a classic essay on the modern way of campaigning titled ''Insider Baseball.'' Over the years that phrase -- usually in a snappier, syntactically dubious variation, without the R -- has become both a cliché and a...
I ADMIT I was wary when I was approached, late in 2008, about working on a movie with the director Steven Soderbergh about a flulike pandemic. It seemed that every few years a filmmaker imagined a world in which a virus transformed humans into flesh-eating zombies, or scientists discovered and delivered the cure for a lethal infectious disease in...
''Contagion,''Steven Soderbergh's smart, spooky thriller about a thicket of contemporary plagues -- a killer virus, rampaging fear, an unscrupulous blogger -- is as ruthlessly effective as the malady at its cool, cool center. Set in the world-is-flat now, the movie tracks a mystery pathogen after it catches a ride on a flight from Hong Kong to...
Steven Soderbergh (født d. 14. januar 1963) er en amerikansk filminstruktør.
Allerede med sin første film, Sex, løgn og video vandt han Den Gyldne Palme for bedste film på filmfestivalen i Cannes. På det tidspunkt var han den yngste vinder af denne pris. Hans næste film blev dog ikke nær så succesrig som debuten. Det var faktisk først i 1998 med filmen Out of Sight at han igen fik succes. År 2000 vil dog blive husket som hans bedste år hidtil, da han fik en Oscar for bedste instruktør for Traffic og samtidigt var nomineret for Erin Brockovich. Siden da har han lavet film som Ocean's Eleven, Solaris og Ocean's Twelve. Samtidigt har han produceret en lang række film gennem det produktionsselskab han ejer sammen med George Clooney. Det drejer sig om film som f.eks. Far from Heaven, Insomnia og Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Fold ud