The Steven Soderbergh Marathon

Back in 2016, I had what I thought was a great idea.  I was going to delve into the filmography of Steven Soderbergh, and talk about each movie of his as I watched it.  When I was about to start it, I realized that I only access to maybe half of his movies.  I started the project anyway.  I made it through just three movies.  I never posted a single one of them either.  I was rightfully afraid that I would stop midway through and it would look like an incomplete project, so I wanted to watch all of the movies before I posted the first one.

That project got away from me and I hadn't thought about it since.  Until I thought of the idea to write my rankings for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and noticed a few completed, unpublished drafts of my plan.  So naturally, I'm using my current situation of needing to stay at home to actually complete what will end up being a nearly four and half year project.  Which is of course misleading as hell, but it sounds better when I put it that way.

I obviously wanted to get a head start on the movies I had watched and written about before I started this project.  I think finishing all 30 of his movies would be asking too much of myself.  But I do have nine of them done as of this writing and will probably have 10 done before I publish my first of 30 movies.  I am also started this to "put pressure on myself."  Once I've started this, I'll feel compelled to finish it.  That's the idea anyway.

So on Wednesday, hopefully, I'll post my thoughts on Steven Soderberg's first ever movie, Sex Lies and Videotape.  Unfortunately, I wrote my thoughts on that movie four years ago, so I hope the younger version of me has the same taste as this current version of me.  I imagine so, but I definitely didn't want to re-do movies I had already done, so you'll forgive me for not starting over on that one.

If you are reading this post after I have already posted some Soderbergh movies, then below you will find the now published thoughts on those movies to make this easier.  And if you're not sure of the progress I've made and want to check, this will be a handy post to return to in the future.  So hopefully, there's an interest in Steven Soderbergh movies, one of the most interesting and varied modern filmmakers in the business.

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Kafka (1991)
King of the Hill (1993)
The Underneath (1995)
Schizopolis (1996)
Gray's Anatomy (1996)
Out of Sight (1998)
The Limey (1999)
Erin Brokovich (2000)
Traffic (2000)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Solaris (2002)
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Bubble (2005)
The Good German (2006)
The Informant! (2007)
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Che (2008)
The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

And Everything Was Going Fine (2010)
Contagion (2011)

Magic Mike (2012)
Side Effects (2013)
Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Logan Lucky (2017)
Unsane (2018)
The Laundromat (2019)
High Flying Bird (2019)