I’ve been doing Someone Else’s Movie for nearly a year now, and it’s taken that long for someone to pick a movie by one of the most gifted and prolific American directors of his generation.
But finally, in this week’s episode, Christopher Warre Smets — whose short film This Is Not What You Had Planned just launched on the National Screen Institute’s website — brings Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight into the basement. This isn’t even a case of me having to sit on a show for months because of scheduling; we taped this last week.
End of complaint. The result is a terrific conversation about a terrific movie, pinballing through Soderbergh’s body of work (and the director’s ambivalence towards some of it) and digressing into Elmore Leonard’s cinematic and literary legacy, just for fun.
You know the drill: Grab it on iTunes or Stitcher, or via direct download. And enjoy the ride.