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September 22, 2005
Why does Mr. S. Run Mildly Amok?: Dargis on Soderbergh on Fassbinder
While Fassbinder gets one of the sexiest jokes in Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, Steven Soderbergh confesses closer kinship to Manohla Dargis in the Times: "I liked that he was prolific," Mr. Soderbergh said of the uncompromising bad boy of New German Cinema. "I liked the subject matter. I envied his ability to really be a part of the worlds that he portrayed. He was in it in a way that I could never be. And, I don't know, just the bluntness of his movies or most of them, I really like. I was watching a lot of them and had some of them with me when I was in Ohio, not to ape anything in specific, just for the feeling." Later, when [he] leaves for his next [interview] and mentions that he is about to make his next two films, The Good German and Che, almost back to back, this interviewer jokes that he is a madman. "I'm just like Fassbinder," [he] says in his pleasant deadpan, "but without the drugs and the whores."
Posted by pride at September 22, 2005 10:34 AM
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