Contagion (2011)

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/contagion/

I look forward to checking it out.

I'm looking forward to it, because it's Soderbergh's last film.

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con·ta·gion

noun /kənˈtājən/ 
contagions, plural

The communication of disease from one person to another by close contact
- the rooms held no risk of contagion

A disease spread in such a way

The spreading of a harmful idea or practice
- the contagion of disgrace

Kinda like those seminars he does.

And what's with all these obscure smartarse titles? CONTAGION, SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK etc... I look forward to David Cronenberg's LEXIPHANICISM (2013).

Going by its definiton - I daresay CONTAGION's a decently obvious title for a film about a one-touch spread disease, rather than being an "obscure smartass" one. Not sure if I'll get around to seeing it, but I am always interested in seeing blockbusters with all-star casys like they used to make. :)

Looks like The Outbreak to me, but without Cuba Gooding Jr. And Matt Damon is in his usual repertoire, doing his trademark yelling in pursuit of answers.

colly wrote:

Going by its definiton - I daresay CONTAGION's a decently obvious title for a film about a one-touch spread disease, rather than being an "obscure smartass" one.

Yeah. Not anything obscure.

I'm interested, though the Soderbergh flick I'm really looking forward to is his considerably more trashy HAYWIRE.

Harmsway wrote:

colly wrote:

Going by its definiton - I daresay CONTAGION's a decently obvious title for a film about a one-touch spread disease, rather than being an "obscure smartass" one.

Yeah. Not anything obscure.

I'm interested, though the Soderbergh flick I'm really looking forward to is his considerably more trashy HAYWIRE.

I'm looking forward to both as well, but HAYWIRE is definitely the Soderbergh film that I most want to see in the coming months.

Both films should be good, though, especially as Soderbergh has assembled two rather solid casts for these films.

CONTAGION has garnered pretty decent reviews. I plan to check it out on Friday.

BTW, The New York Times states that Soderbergh has four more films due for release in the future: HAYWIRE, MAGIC MIKE, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., and his Liberace biopic. Then it's bye-bye Soderbergh.

Harmsway wrote:

BTW, The New York Times states that Soderbergh has four more films due for release in the future: HAYWIRE, MAGIC MIKE, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., and his Liberace biopic..

Talk about a long goodbye.

Two more years, I'd guess. Soderbergh is a pretty quick filmmaker. HAYWIRE's already in the can and MAGIC MIKE is going to be a small film.

So Soderbergh isn't retiring after all. He's just taking a break:

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"It's less dramatic that it sounds - it's just a sabbatical," the 48-year-old director told reporters at the Venice Film Festival.

[ . . . ]

"I feel I need to recalibrate, so I can discover something new," he told The Observer, echoing words he used in a BBC Radio 4 interview in 2009.

"I'm out of ways of telling art."

Steven Soderbergh wrote:

"I'm out of ways of telling art."

Nonsense. Merely your limited imagination has run dry.

Sharky wrote:

Steven Soderbergh wrote:

"I'm out of ways of telling art."

Nonsense. Merely your limited imagination has run dry.

The male menopause.