Given that Steven Soderbergh's "final" theatrical release is 'Now Playing' in theaters near you, I thought it was time to look back on his entire oeuvre. His movies stretched from the Palme D'Or winning breakthrough sex, lies and videotape (1989) to the mid-career twinner Traffic & Erin Brockovich (2000) that won him an Oscar and on through a last rush of product in the past 13 months from experimental action Haywire to stripper drama Magic Mike (a Best Picture nominee right here) and culminated with Side Effects.
How many have you seen?
sex, lies and videotape (1989)
Kafka (1991)
King of the Hill (1993)
21 (or so) more after the jump
The Underneath (1995)
Gray's Anatomy (1996)
Schizopolis (1996)
Out of Sight (1997)
The Limey (1999)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Traffic (2000)
Oceans 11 (2001)
Full Frontal (2002)
Solaris (2002)
Oceans 12 (2004)
Bubble (2005)
The Good German (2006)
Oceans 13 (2007)
Che Parts 1 & 2 (2008)
The Girlfriend Experiment (2009)
The Informant (2009)
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Contagion (2011)
Haywire (2012)
Magic Mike (2012)
Side Effects (2013)
* I skipped the documentary "And Everything Is Going Fine" (2010), a follow up to Gray's Anatomy but supposedly there's an Australian picture in there called The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg (2011) but given that someone as famous as Cate Blanchett is in it why have I never heard of it and why wasn't it released and so on? Help me fill in my Soderbergh lore as I'll readily admit I haven't been a completist.
How many have you seen? Is he retiring too soon at age 50? And what's your overall take on him as a director. Opinions seem to run the gamut and the filmography sure does...