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The Movie Page
No one makes movies like Steven Soderbergh. A director who works as his own cinematographer and editor—the latter two under the pseudonyms Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard—he has so streamlined the filmmaking process that he’s been known to send out a rough cut of the completed feature by the end of the last shooting day.
That process has allowed him to move faster than any major working director, releasing two movies, Presence and Black Box, in theaters in the past year alone, and premiering a third, The Christophers, which is just hitting cinemas now. A ghost story, a sexy spy thriller, and a seriocomic two-hander about the art world, the three films are wildly different, but they share a spirit of freewheeling experimentation and the feeling that, 37 years after Sex, Lies, and Videotape made a splash at Sundance, the 63-year-old director is still as in love with the process as ever.