Chicago – As his excellent “Haywire” plays in theaters and his even-better “Contagion” was recently released on Blu-ray and DVD, one is reminded of the incredible talent of Steven Soderbergh, one of the best living directors. But “Contagion” and “Haywire,” while enjoyable, don’t hold a candle to this incredible filmmaker’s best films, which include “Sex, Lies, and Videotape,” “Out of Sight,” “Che,” and, recently released on Criterion Blu-ray and DVD, the Oscar-winning “Traffic.” This is one of Criterion’s best releases for one of the ‘00’s best films.
Blu-ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
Steven Soderbergh won his only Oscar for directing “Traffic” (and it should have beaten “Gladiator” for Best Picture a few minutes later on the same Oscar telecast and has held up significantly better than Ridley Scott’s film) and it was well-deserved. Watching the film again over a decade later, I’m blown away by how little of it...
Blu-ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
Steven Soderbergh won his only Oscar for directing “Traffic” (and it should have beaten “Gladiator” for Best Picture a few minutes later on the same Oscar telecast and has held up significantly better than Ridley Scott’s film) and it was well-deserved. Watching the film again over a decade later, I’m blown away by how little of it...
- 1/24/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
There's a single moment in Traffic that makes me love it more than anything else. It's the moment when Catherine Zeta Jones as Helena Ayala, housewife turned drug trafficker as a result of charges brought against her husband, is driving down the road in her SUV and barks orders at the assassin she's hired to kill the one man that could put her husband behind bars. Before this we saw the motherly side of Helena as she handed her young son his putter as he got into the car, asking him to not play with it in the car and to put it on the floor because "that's where Tiger Woods keeps it." We'll also watch as she asks the agents (Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman) monitoring her every move to be on the look out for strangers while giving them each a fresh glass of lemonade. But that side...
- 1/16/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
- Information. It's the most sought after commodity on the planet after petrol. Don't believe me? Look at Google's stock quote. Fighting terrorism with sadism, I doubt whether the U.S's top people in command incorporate words like Nuremberg (trials) or Geneva (convention) in their daily lingo. Docu-filmmaker Alex Gibney (filmmaker behind the excellent Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) prods the into the practices of the Bush Administration and Taxi to the Dark Side asks why there was so much gross misconduct in the treatment of detainees. Packed with interviews from former government officials, interrogators, prison guards, New York Times reporters Tim Golden and Carlotta Gall, the families of tortured prisoners, the film dissects the progression of the Administration’s policy on torture from the secret role of key administration figures, such as Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales and others to the soldiers in the field. Currently on the
- 1/4/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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