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Steven Soderbergh to retire

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Steven Soderbergh according to Matt Damon will carry through on his vow to retire from filmmaking at 51. Sorry to hear this. While not all his films work for me personally I still have tremendous respect.

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wild... why anyone would want to retire from such a great career is beyond me.

I love what I do.. and cant see myself retiring from it..

even if I won 20 million bucks in the lotto.. I would want to continue shooting and making films.. (except i would probably fund them also:)
 
N_Villers said:
Steven Sonderbergh according to Matt Damon will carry through on his vow to retire from filmmaking at 51. Sorry to hear this. While not all his films work for me personally I still have tremendous respect.

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Oh, that is sad news. He is a great filmmaker and will surely be missed. I hope he changes his mind.

On a side note the spelling nazi in me has got to come out for a second... Soderbergh, NOT Sonderbergh. :)
 
Zakaree Sandberg said:
wild... why anyone would want to retire from such a great career is beyond me.

I love what I do.. and cant see myself retiring from it..

even if I won 20 million bucks in the lotto.. I would want to continue shooting and making films.. (except i would probably fund them also:)
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fighting for financing is tiresome.
fighting for financing for personal projects is more tiresome.
knowing that topics you are interested in would cost 30 mio plus and will not getting financing in that range is tirisome.
beeing forced to look for stories which wont cost more than a million is tiresome.
loosing interest is an effect of these.
or you sell yourself and shoot oceans fourteen.
when no thanks is the answer you retire
 
Ok. I don't see it happening if he is the kind of person I believe him to be, but he might not be of course. Sure I could see him retiring from the profession as a high profile director. But what, retiring from shooting films completely...Saying he won't experiment with film again ever...
What I like about SS is that all his own pieces feel in one way or another experiments. Give him an EPIC and he might extend that a little but it might be small indie experimental stuff. Which is absolutely fine by me.

Wonder who will retire first Tarantino or Soderbergh. Well by his terms SS will retire in three years. How long will it be before people say no to Tarantino that it is not commercially practical to exhibit on film and his cinema becomes the only place in the world to see Tarantino's films.

I'll be making films until either I'm blind, suffering from dementia or dead. But thats easy for me to say I've only been involved with film for about ten years.
 
Cüneyt Kaya said:
fighting for financing is tiresome.
fighting for financing for personal projects is more tiresome.
knowing that topics you are interested in would cost 30 mio plus and will not getting financing in that range is tirisome.
being forced to look for stories which wont cost more than a million is tiresome.
loosing interest is an effect of these.
or you sell yourself and shoot oceans fourteen.
when no thanks is the answer you retire
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I think you pretty much nailed it. He talks about this stuff in the Che BTS. If I remember correctly he also speaks about short attention spans and that audiences don't obsess and talk about movies like they used to. The impact isn't there anymore. Don't quote me. Go back and watch those for exact wording. I will say this, last movie that made me talk about it for weeks was The White Ribbon. It's still possible to move audiences, to excite them, to stimulate conversation. It takes a special type of filmmaker to know what kind of stories will engage an audience, and how to tell it with unique perspective, yet universal appeal. I do think a lot of modern films reflect the attention spans of modern society. They move very fast, and don't always breathe enough.
 
Steve Sherrick said:
I think you pretty much nailed it. He talks about this stuff in the Che BTS. If I remember correctly he also speaks about short attention spans and that audiences don't obsess and talk about movies like they used to. The impact isn't there anymore. Don't quote me. Go back and watch those for exact wording. I will say this, last movie that made me talk about it for weeks was The White Ribbon. It's still possible to move audiences, to excite them, to stimulate conversation. It takes a special type of filmmaker to know what kind of stories will engage an audience, and how to tell it with unique perspective, yet universal appeal. I do think a lot of modern films reflect the attention spans of modern society. They move very fast, and don't always breathe enough.
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Right now in the US box office top ten, among obvious commercial movies we have

True Grit
The Fighter
Black Swan

Don't tell me interesting movies don't get made, or financed any more.

Of course it's hard. Anything worthwhile is.

R.
 
Personally, I think it's pretty cool when people re-invent themselves. It's lucky for us that Jim Jannard decided on more than one career path...you just never know what is around the next bend...
 
I read this couple of days ago and it was a sort of joke:

UPDATE: Soderbergh joked through his rep: “I’m simply announcing my retirement early so that all the various film organizations can get their lifetime achievement awards lined up.

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Today mostly journalists write because they have nothing to say and they alwys need news even based on a gossip or joke...

Never forget this famous example of provocation made by Orson Welles 72 years ago:

WOTW-NYT-headline.jpg

New York Times headline from October 31, 1938.

The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air.
It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network.
Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds.

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He'll probably make better films in retirement-- more personal, less commercial. He'll shoot with his Epics and we'll still get to see them. They may even star George Clooney. The best thing about Epic is it gives rise to high quality micro-budget cinema. I'm sure that Soderbergh can appreciate that. He's probably squirreled away enough greenbacks to cover the catering on a dedicated cast and crew of a dozen or so.
 
Jeff Coatney said:
The best thing about Epic is it gives rise to high quality micro-budget cinema.
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Uhhhh.... Didn't the Red One already do that 3 years ago? Last I checked, Epic costs almost 50% more than the Red One. Not exactly encouraging "micro budget cinema."

Now, if you want to substitute "Scarlet" for "Epic" I might agree with you.
 
M Most said:
Uhhhh.... Didn't the Red One already do that 3 years ago? Last I checked, Epic costs almost 50% more than the Red One. Not exactly encouraging "micro budget cinema."

Now, if you want to substitute "Scarlet" for "Epic" I might agree with you.
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Jannard said:
My bet is that EPIC is the 1st digital camera to beat film in every way.

It is smaller than every 35mm film camera. It has more resolution. More dynamic range. The color science is now perfect. It is cheaper than a film camera. It records to a reusable SSD or CF. The results are NOW.

I have to say that EPIC achieves everything we ever set out to accomplish. Wow.

Jim
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You are right Mike.

But for me EPIC is the real 35mm alternative. Like Jim said EPIC is the first digital camera to beat film in every way. The small size allows you to shoot with no crew if that's what you wan't. Very "Micro Budget". And you can buy the EPIC-S which is almost 50% cheaper than the original R1 "M".
 
Ruairi Robinson said:
Right now in the US box office top ten, among obvious commercial movies we have

True Grit
The Fighter
Black Swan

Don't tell me interesting movies don't get made, or financed any more.

Of course it's hard. Anything worthwhile is.

R.
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Ruairi, I was paraphrasing Soderberg. Personally, I still do find movies that move me and interest me. I used the example of The White Ribbon as one that had such an impact, I kept talking about it for weeks. That's a good thing. I'll let Steven explain his views here in this video. Make sure to watch until the end because that's when he gets into movies not mattering as much anymore. Again, this is his perspective, not mine. We just share the same initials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDNglu09gIs
 
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