The new Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema Podcast. My name's Brian Sauer. I'm joined as always by the delightful

Mr. Elricane. Mr. Kane, we're returning to some well-worn territory here, but we had some inspiration. This is another sort of director's missing pieces episode, but it was inspired by a recent viewing that you and I had together, which is pretty fun. Black bag. Black bag. I'm not telling them. I'm not telling them. Black bag. When we say black bag, it means we're not going to tell you.

Yeah, look, best film of the year so far at the time of recording this,

a film that I think both of us needed in the moment to have a great movie.

We're hoping we're putting gambling on a good movie that night.

And it is, you know, Soderberg's one of, we'll go down as one of

the most fascinating American directors of all time because of his tendency to do long periods

of experimentation mixed in with more traditional movies. And, you know, I find that I've lost my

way a little bit with following all his work as a result because there's so much of it.

And now it's, I think it with the event of streaming services, it's not just Soderberg making experiments.

It's that some of them are being released where you have no clue that they're being released.

Right.

So so you lose track of some of the movies he's made.

Like it took me, it took me a few days to find the one that I was going to watch for this because I truly couldn't find it on all the services.

And then I realized it was on the most obvious one being Netflix that I just had no idea.

It was on that one.

So, so I think that's a bit of an issue, you know, of the modern thing.

But I think it's, he's always fascinating and he's had some obviously real strong streaks. But to me, Black Bag was the best since his key period of the, you know, Brokovich, Limey, all that stuff. It's back in that territory. And I found it to be exciting and funny and sexy and all the things I want and smart, which is the thing I

most want from a Soderberg film. And yeah, we just, we both really loved it. And we walked

out of the theater talking about them and realizing that we had missed quite a few of the more

recent ones. And we said, hey, we should do something on Soderberg initially, which may still happen someday. And then I said, well, why don't we just use it as a chance to watch one of the films of his that we haven't seen yet each and then launch back into some of our director missing pieces? Because to me, that's a life work that I'm going to be doing. Like, there'll always be a great director that I'll look up and go, oh, yeah, I haven't seen

this one. And I never, that could be the whole show for me. Like, I could do that for the rest of Pure Cinema's lifetime. I'd be totally fine if that's just what the show was, because there's always something. You know, there's always just something on the edges. So, but that was that was kind of the how we decided to dive into this today.

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