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Getting Away With It
O książce
Steven Soderbergh and Richard Lester are a generation apart, but theyshare a sense of humour and a passion for cinema. Soderbergh's freshman film,
sex, lies and videotape, inaugurated a movementin US independent cinema. Lester's freewheeling work in the '60s and '70s (
Help!,
A Hard Day's Night,
The Knack,
How I Won the War,
Petulia) helped create a 'new wave' of British film-making. Here, the two cineastes discuss their mutual passion for the medium in a frank,funny and free-ranging series of interviews. Also included is Soderbergh's diary of an extraordinary twelve months in which he ventured into 'guerilla film-making' with offbeatprojects
Schizopolis and
Gray's Anatomy, before returning to the Hollywood fray with the George Clooney hit
Out of Sight.