Steven Soderbergh
Series
Criterion collection volume 360
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A fiction/documentary hybrid that blurs the line between reality and fiction, yet remains a tightly focused movie about making movies. Bonus disc includes 2005 sequel, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 2 1/2; a video interview with Steve Buscemi; and more!
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm take one: There have been many films about their own making, but few that examine the creative process from so many perspectives as this one. Greaves uses the shooting of one scene...
2) Traffic
Series
Criterion collection volume 151
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack cocaine addict.
Traffic is a mural of a war being fought and lost. In a culture devoted to instant gratification and the quick fix, it poses unanswerable questions about greed, corruption, economic inequity, pleasure, self-medication, dependency, and addiction. The stories of a well-meaning...