A widow (Meryl Streep) investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners (Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas) exploiting the world’s financial system.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, David Schwimmer, Robert Patrick, Cristela Alonzo, James Cromwell, Melissa Rauch, Alex Pettyfer, Will Forte, Matthias Schoenaerts, Chris Parnell, Larry Wilmore
Erin Brockovich (2000) Dir: Steven Soderbergh DOP: Ed Lachman “Are you going to be something else that I have to survive? Because…to tell you the truth…I’m not up to it.”
In January 2013, Poitras - recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Genius Fellowship and co-recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service - was several years into making a film about surveillance in the post-9/11 era when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four," who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies.
In June 2013, she and Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of tense encounters is absolutely sui generis in the history of cinema: a 100% real-life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes.
“I almost ruined the take when she said her first lines as Mellie Logan,” says Steven Soderbergh. I said, ‘Who are you thinking of?’ And she said, ‘Oh, a friend in West Virginia.’
