Word: soderbergh
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...hard in the beginning to get filmmakers interested in this," says Ryan Werner, marketing head of IFC Films. "But as we've started working with filmmakers like Joe and with Steven Soderbergh, for Che, we've found that more artists are starting to realize the audience this approach can reach - the ability to be in front of this many eyeballs at the flip of a switch...
...more filmmakers consider unorthodox release strategies - Wayne Wang premiered The Princess of Nebraska last year on YouTube, and Soderbergh agreed to a simultaneous video-on-demand release for his Cannes selection Che - Swanberg says it's the media's acceptance of these nontheatrical debuts that has the potential to alter the economics of the independent film industry. "It's so palpable for me to remember that frustration I felt growing up in the suburbs of Chicago," he says. "I remember reading Film Comment and reading about these movies I really couldn't see because they never came to the theaters...
...perks of White House living is getting to see current movies in the comfort of your own stately mansion. Which brings up the question, What will the new First Family select for its first screening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Steven Soderbergh's five-hour epic Che? Doubtful. My money is on Hotel for Dogs, a resolutely chirpy, exceedingly safe family film aimed squarely and shamelessly at Malia and Sasha Obama's puppy-loving demographic. (See pictures of presidential First Dogs...
...this is an earnest of Soderbergh's doggedly naturalistic, antidramatic approach here, which is admirable but enervating. The conflicts are almost entirely between Che and his men, between the platoon and their forest environment. Spending up to a year in the jungles of either Cuba or Bolivia, the soldiers seem trapped in some tropical Blair Witch Project, stripped of the scary bits. And forgive me for asking, but with all these young men separated from their girlfriends for such a long time, why (with one rapacious exception) do they never express any interest in women? The movie lets you infer...
...Ebert wrote this in 1969, in a review of the flop Hollywood bio-pic Che!, with the not-very-Latin Omar Sharif as Guevara. Yet most of Ebert's denunciations apply to Soderbergh's movie, which dispenses with the exclamation point - and with almost all of the compelling, sometimes contradictory drama in Che Guevara's life...