Synopses & Reviews
Getting Away with It is a hilarious, insightful conversation between two visionary directors, Steven Soderbergh and Richard Lester, about the manifold joys and hardships of being a filmmaker. Though a generation apart, both share the infectious passion of cinephilia and have had a wide impact on the world film community. Soderbergh's freshman effort as a writer-director, sex, lies, and videotape, inaugurated a movement in low-budget, independent American film that remains a vital part of contemporary cinema today. Lester's freewheeling films of the sixties and seventies (including the Beatles' movies
Help! and A
Hard Day's Night;
The Knack;
How I Won the War and Petulia) helped to create a "new wave" of British film-making. Together they discuss their respective adventures in motion pictures in a free-ranging and sardonically educational dialogue.
Interwoven with this dialogue is a similarly witty and insightful journal by Soderbergh, recounting an extraordinary twelve months in which he rejected the Hollywood system and ventured into "guerilla film-making" with the offbeat projects Schizopolis and Gray's Anatomy, before returning to the Hollywood fray with his acclaimed adaptation of Elmore Leonard's "Out of Sight", starring George Clooney.
Steven Soderbergh's recent films include Erin Brockovich and Ocean's Eleven.
Among several other films, Richard Lester directed Get Back, a documentary of the 1989-90 Paul McCartney tour.
Getting Away with It is a funny and insightful conversation between two visionary directors, Steven Soderbergh and Richard Lester, about the manifold joys and hardships of being a filmmaker.
Though a generation apart, they share the infectious passion of cinephilia, and each has directed movies that have influenced the entire international film community. Soderbergh's freshman effort as a writer-director, sex, lies, and videotape, inaugurated a movement in low-budget, independent American film that remains a vital part of contemporary cinema today. Lester's freewheeling films of the Sixties and Seventies (including the Beatles' movies Help! and A Hard Day's Night; The Knack; How I Won the War; and Petulia) helped to create a "new wave" of British filmmaking. Together they discuss their respective adventures in motion pictures in a free-ranging, sardonically educational dialogue.
Interwoven within this conversation is a similarly witty and insightful journal by Soderbergh, recounting the extraordinary year during which he rejected the Hollywood system to try "guerilla filmmaking" with the offbeat projects Schizopolis and Gray's Anatomy before returning to the movie-making mainstream with his acclaimed adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Out of Sight (starring George Clooney).
"Too funny, too true, too sad to put down."David Thomson, The Independent on Sunday
Review
"Too funny, too true, too sad to put down." David Thomson, The Independent on Sunday
Synopsis
Getting Away with It is a hilarious, insightful conversation between two visionary directors, Steven Soderbergh and Richard Lester, about the manifold joys and hardships of being a filmmaker. Though a generation apart, both share the infectious passion of cinephilia and have had a wide impact on the world film community. Soderbergh's freshman effort as a writer-director,
sex, lies, and videotape, inaugurated a movement in low-budget, independent American film that remains a vital part of contemporary cinema today. Lester's freewheeling films of the sixties and seventies (including the Beatles' movies
Help! and
A Hard Day's Night;
The Knack;
How I Won the War and
Petulia) helped to create a "new wave" of British film-making. Together they discuss their respective adventures in motion pictures in a free-ranging and sardonically educational dialogue.
Interwoven with this dialogue is a similarly witty and insightful journal by Soderbergh, recounting an extraordinary twelve months in which he rejected the Hollywood system and ventured into "guerilla film-making" with the offbeat projects Schizopolis and Gray's Anatomy, before returning to the Hollywood fray with his acclaimed adaptation of Elmore Leonard's "Out of Sight," starring George Clooney.
Synopsis
Getting Away with It is a hilarious, insightful conversation between two visionary directors, Steven Soderbergh and Richard Lester, about the manifold joys and hardships of being a filmmaker. Though a generation apart, both share the infectious passion of cinephilia and have had a wide impact on the world film community. Soderbergh's freshman effort as a writer-director, sex, lies, and videotape, inaugurated a movement in low-budget, independent American film that remains a vital part of contemporary cinema today. Lester's freewheeling films of the sixties and seventies (including the Beatles' movies
Help! and A
Hard Day's Night;
The Knack;
How I Won the War and Petulia) helped to create a "new wave" of British film-making. Together they discuss their respective adventures in motion pictures in a free-ranging and sardonically educational dialogue.
Interwoven with this dialogue is a similarly witty and insightful journal by Soderbergh, recounting an extraordinary twelve months in which he rejected the Hollywood system and ventured into "guerilla film-making" with the offbeat projects Schizopolis and Gray's Anatomy, before returning to the Hollywood fray with his acclaimed adaptation of Elmore Leonard's "Out of Sight", starring George Clooney.
About the Author
Steven Soderbergh's films include
Erin Brockovich and
Ocean's Eleven.
Richard Lester's last film was
Get Back, a documentary of the 1989-90 Paul McCartney tour.