Sex, lies, and videotape / an Outlaw production ; written and directed by Steven Soderbergh ; produced by Robert Newmyer, John Hardy.
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FilmPublisher number: CC2903DDVD | The Criterion CollectionCC2903D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 938.Publisher: [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: Director-approved DVD special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781681434599
- 1681434598
- Sex, lies, and videotape (Motion picture)
- Director of photography, Walt Lloyd ; editor, Steven Soderbergh ; music, Cliff Martinez.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Steven Soderbergh kickstarted the independent film movement of the 1990s with this landmark drama about the tangled relationships among four people and a video camera. John (Peter Gallagher) is an unscrupulous, self-centered yuppie lawyer with a beautiful wife named Ann (Andie MacDowell). Ann feels secure and well provided-for in their relationship, but she has almost no interest in sex; she tells her therapist that she's more concerned about waste disposal. John, however, is still quite interested in sex and is having an affair with Ann's sister Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo), whose personality is fire to Ann's ice; sex is the one area in which she's been able to best her more successful sister, and she relishes her ability to seduce Ann's husband. Into this dysfunctional picture comes Graham (James Spader), a college friend of John's whom he hasn't seen in nine years. Graham has decided that talking about sex is more interesting than actually having sex, so he meets women and asks them discuss their desires and fantasies as he tapes them with a camcorder. A sensation at the Sundance Film Festival, the film made that festival a synonym for a new brand of low-budget indie dramas about contemporary life and relationships. Together with Quentin Tarantino's very different Pulp Fiction (1994), sex, lies, and videotape was one of the most influential movies for independent filmmaking of the 1990s. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
DVD; NTSC; region 1; 16:9 wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo, Ron Vawter.
Director of photography, Walt Lloyd ; editor, Steven Soderbergh ; music, Cliff Martinez.
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1989.
Wide screen.
Focuses on the complexities of human intimacy and deception in the modern age. Housewife Ann (Andie MacDowell) feels distant from her lawyer husband, John (Peter Gallagher), who is sleeping with her sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). When John's old friend Graham (James Spader) comes to town, Ann is drawn to the soft-spoken outsider, eventually uncovering his startling private obsession: videotaping women as they confess their deepest desires. A piercingly intelligent chamber piece, in which the video camera becomes a charged metaphor for the characters' isolation.
MPAA rating: R.
Special features: Audio commentary from 1998 featuring Steven Soderbergh in conversation with filmmaker Neil LaBute; new introduction by Soderbergh; interviews with Soderbergh from 1990 and 1992; new documentary about the making of the film, featuring actors Peter Gallagher, Andie MacDowell, and Laura San Giacomo; interview from 1989 with actor James Spader; new conversation between sound editor/re-recording mixer Larry Blake and composer Cliff Martinez Cliff Martinez; deleted scene with commentary by Soderbergh; demonstration of sound restorations through the years; trailers; essay by critic Amy Taubin.