Steven Soderbergh

Talking Pictures

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4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This episode of Talking Pictures is special for host Ben Mankiewicz, whose favorite film of all time is Out of Sight, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Ben sits down with Soderbergh (Ocean’s 11, Full Circle, Erin Brockovich) to talk ‘70s films, George Clooney, and how one maintains a 35-year career as a film director. Soderbergh also offers a little relationship advice and answers the Super 8, during which he reveals how many movies he watched in high school. Trust us, it’s a lot. FILMS MENTIONED: Sex, Lies, and Videotape Ocean's Eleven Ocean’s Twelve Ocean’s Thirteen Magic Mike Magic Mike’s Last Dance* Out of Sight Schizopolis* Gray’s Anatomy* The Last Detail Seconds The Parallax View Wanda* Carnal Knowledge The Landlord Being There Mad Max Witches of Eastwick Kafka King of the Hill The Underneath Erin Brockovich Michael Clayton Contagion Yankee Doodle Dandy Casablanca* Mildred Pierce* Four Daughters Angels with Dirty Faces The Knick* Jaws Planet of the Apes Three Days of the Condor EO Au Hasard Balthazar Hiroshima, Mon Amour Happy as Lazaro The Maltese Falcon Stormy Weather The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Behind the Candelabra* *Available on Max as of 1/23 (Availability of titles subject to change) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you get directors together for more than a few minutes, they start talking about their nightmare scenarios.
0:07.7	And the nightmare scenario is just being irrelevant.
0:16.4	In this first season of Talking Pictures, you'll hear me talk to a lot of directors,
0:20.7	but none of them will have made as many movies as Stephen Soderberg. In this first season of Talking Pictures, you'll hear me talk to a lot of directors,
0:25.0	but none of them will have made as many movies as Stephen Soderberg.
0:32.2	He has directed 35 films since his debut feature, Sex Lives and Videotape, in 1989.
0:36.6	That film won the Palm D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Soderberg was only 26 at the time.
0:40.6	He is still the youngest director to win that award.
0:45.9	Just this month, Soderberg has a new film premiering at Sundance.
0:50.0	It's a psychological thriller called Presence.
0:53.1	It was announced in December, shortly after we talked.
0:56.7	I can't wait to see it, largely because it's a Steven Soderberg movie.
1:02.0	As you'll hear in our conversation, many of his films are among my favorites.
1:06.9	I'm hardly alone.
1:08.7	Soderberg has directed blockbuster franchises like the Oceans films with
1:13.1	George Clooney, as well as the Magic Mike series that stars Channing Tatum. He's worked with the
1:18.9	biggest names in Hollywood, Merrill Street, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon. Back in 2000,
1:26.2	he was nominated for a Best Director Oscar twice in the same year,
1:30.8	so he was competing against himself for Traffic and Aaron Brockovich. All of this is to say
1:37.5	he manages to be both prolific and artistic. When he's not making movies, he's watching them. So he's the perfect guy to
1:46.6	talk pictures with. Stick around for Steven Soderberg. I'm your host Ben Mankowitz,
1:55.8	and this is Talking Pictures, a podcast about movies, about memories, and all the stuff that happens in
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