Flamenco Dancer paintings

Flamenco Dancer paintings
Franz Marc paintings
the idea is interesting precisely because his approach to film-making has been so varied. He began an arthouse darling, winning the Palme D’Or at Cannes with sex, lies and videotape - the movie which spawned a million headlines, made the careers of James Spader and Andie MacDowell, and put down a marker about his approach to film. Much to the disappointment of those who mistook it for a skin movie, sex, lies and videotape was actually all about talk and ideas. Then, as now, such an approach cut through Hollywood orthodoxy, but it did so with such confidence that, for a moment, Soderbergh seemed to have the world at his feet. What he chose to do with this freedom was interesting. He followed his muse. He made the films he wanted to. He disappeared from the radar screens. His unseen movies could fill a shelf in Blockbuster, except that they would never order them in the first place. So, where did it all go right? The film Soderbergh chose to examine for the New York Times was All the President’s Men, Alan J Pakula’s dramatic reconstruction of the Watergate scandal. As a teenager in Baton Rouge, Soderbergh saw the film about ten times, going first as a Dustin Hoffman fan and emerging into the light as a boy with an idea about how difficult stories could be projected