That was fast! The ink is barely dry on yesterday's post and the Tribeca Film Festival has already announced the rest of their feature film lineup for this year's edition, which runs from April 22-May 3. A few quick picks: Blank City . Celine Danhier's doc examines "the DIY independent film movement...

Steven Soderbergh’s next film The Girlfriend Experience finally has an official release date, at least according to IndieWire (via The Playlist). According to the report, Magnolia Pictures intends to put it into limited release starting May 22, 2009. As The Playlist points out, this sets it up...

Before I made my trip to Park City, Utah for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival I gave you a list of the 13 films I was most interested in seeing. And now that I’ve come and gone, surviving another year in the hustle and bustle of America’s great festival, it is my duty to bookend my covera...

Since none of our readers actually watch pornographic films, you’ll hopefully recognize Sasha Grey from Neil Miller’s recent Sundance review of footage from The Girlfriend Experience , Steven Soderbergh’s latest project. Yet another funny, though slightly less morbid, entry into Ja...

Steven Soderbergh has always been a supporter of innovation experimentation and new media. Che goes out on VOD Wednesday while its special roadshow engagement continues, and Soderbergh's 2005 Bubble was the first day-and-date experiment for Marc Cuban and Todd Wagner's 2929 Entertainment and Magnoli...

It had been rumored here since at least Sunday, but that hardly made Steven Soderbergh's work-in-progress screening of his upcoming The Girlfriend Experience any less of a Sundance surprise Tuesday night. Starring 20-year-old porn princess Sasha Grey amid a strong cast of non-actors (including forme...

In one of the worst kept surprises of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, director Steven Soderbergh took the stage at the Eccles Center in Park City tonight for a special event. It was advertised as “An Evening with Steven Soderbergh,” but we knew the score. He was there to show u...

The beige square on the Sundance schedule for today -- "Sneak Preview," 6:15 at the Eccles -- was, over the past few days, filled in with a thousand brushstrokes of rumor and intimation and heard-it-from-a-friend-who-heard-it-from-a-friend whisperings. The first murmuring I heard to make that "Sneak...

Filed under: Drama, Independent, Sundance, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Celebrities and Controversy, Cinematical Indie, Sundance Reviews 2009 The beige square on the Sundance schedule for today -- "Sneak Preview," 6:15 at the Eccles -- was, over the past few days, filled in with a thousand ...

Though Steven Soderbergh has featured unknown, untrained actors in his movies in the past, he has raised a number of eyebrows recently by casting porn star Sasha Grey in the lead of his forthcoming feature ‘The Girlfriend Experience.’ To be sure, Grey is certainly outside of the mainstre...