By Dan Krovich
November 11, 2002
Films
Directed by Soderbergh
Yes: 9012LIVE (1986)
sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
Kafka (1991)
King of the Hill (1993)
“The Quiet Room” (episode of Fallen Angels) (1993)
Underneath (1995)
Schizopolis (1996)
Gray's Anatomy (1996)
Out of Sight (1998)
The Limey (1999)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Traffic (2000)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Full Frontal (2002)
Solaris (2002)
Produced by Soderbergh
Suture (Scott McGehee and David Siegel, 1993)
The Daytrippers (Greg Mottola, 1996)
Pleasantville (Gary Ross, 1998)
Tribute (Kris Curry and Rich Fox, 2001)
Who is Bernard Tapie? (Marina Zenovich, 2001)
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan, 2002)
Welcome to Collinwood (Anthony and Joe Russo, 2002)
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
Naqoyqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 2002)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney, 2002)
Written by Soderbergh
Nightwatch (Ole Bornedal, 1998)
Soderbergh Appears in
Independent’s Day (Marina Zenovich, 1998)
Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001)
Soderbergh Remade
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak, 1949)
Traffik (Alastair Reid, 1989)
Ocean’s Eleven (Lewis Milestone, 1960)
Soderbergh's Top Ten
(in no particular order, as stated in an interview with Terri Minsky in Rolling Stone, May 18, 1989)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland, 1953)
The Godfather (Parts I and II) (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 and 1974)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
All the President’s Men (Alan Pakula, 1976)
Other Soderbergh Influences
(as stated in various interviews)
The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols, 1971)
Il Deserto rosso (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)
8½ (Frederico Fellini, 1963)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970)
Four Hundred Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964)
Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
How I Won the War (Richard Lester, 1967)
Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968)
Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg, 1973)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Books
Written by Soderbergh
Getting Away with It Or: The Further Adventures of the Luckiest Bastard You Ever Saw (1999)
sex, lies, and videotape (1990)
About Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh: Interviews (edited by Anthony Kaufman, 2002)
Steven Soderbergh (Jason Wood, 2002)
Screenplays of Soderbergh Movies
Full Frontal (Coleman Hough, 2002)
Traffic: The Shooting Script (Stephen Gaghan, 2001)
Novels on which Soderbergh Based Movies
(some of these movies have not been produced)
Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole, 1980)
Criss Cross (Don Tracy, 1935)
The Informant: A True Story (Kurt Eichenwald, 2000)
King of the Hill (A. E. Hotchner, 1972)
The Last Ship: A Novel (William Brinkley, 1988)
Out of Sight (Elmore Leonard, 1996)
The Quiet Room (Jonathan Craig, from the short story collection Fallen Angels, 1993)
Solaris (Stanislaw Lem, 1961)
Toots and the Upside Down House (Carol Hughes, 1998)
Recommended by Soderbergh
(in various interviews, etc.)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers, 2000)
The Information (Martin Amis, 1995)
The Locusts Have No King (Dawn Powell, 1948)
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Dava Sobel, 1995)
Pictures from an Institution (Randall Jarrell, 1954)
Snow White (Donald Barthelme, 1967)
