Today’s film is the 1985 short Access All Areas. The film is a documentary directed by Steven Soderbergh, and was shot in conjunction with his documentary concert film Yes: 9012 Live, which marked Soderbergh’s directorial debut. Soderbergh has gone on to have a distinguished film career, winning the Academy Award for Best Director in 2001 for his film Traffic. His newest feature, Side Effects, which Soderbergh has announced will be the last theatrical release of his directing career, released in North American theatres this weekend.
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- 2/10/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Later this week, the alleged final theatrical release directed by Steven Soderbergh will open nationwide. Titled Side Effects, it’s a fine little thriller involving psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry. Maybe not the grandest finale for the filmmaker who gave us such big movies as the Oceans trilogy, Traffic, Che, Shizopolis and of course Sex, Lies and Videotape, but he didn’t enter the business with a bang either. Soderbergh’s first professional directing gig, at age 21, was helming a little-recognized concert film titled Yes: 9012Live, which presents a 1984 performance by the band Yes during their tour supporting the album 90125. (You can see a clip of them doing “Roundabout” from the film here.) Supplementary to that, he shot a short backstage documentary during the tour called Access All Areas. It’s a crude look at the reunited prog-rock group both aesthetically and content-wise. It’s quickly cut, offering only bits of moments rather than full-on scenes. And...
- 2/3/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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