Just in ‘The Knick,’ Steven Soderbergh Takes Viewers to a Forgotten NYC
Cinemax is going in an entirely new direction tonight with the premiere of the ten-part series “The Knick,” from director Steven Soderbergh and starring Clive Owen as a brilliant, renegade and opiate-addicted surgeon wielding a scalpel in turn of the 20th century New York City at a fictional hospital called the Knickerbocker. It’s a show that could have easily been on sister network HBO, but Soderbergh and network executives thought...
DGA Awards Honor Gravity’s Alfonso Cuarón and Breaking Bad’s Vince Gilligan
Alfonso Cuarón may not be a master of the art of speaking English, according to his “Gravity” leading lady Sandra Bullock, but he clearly demonstrated his proficiency in directing by taking the prestigious top prize at the 66th Annual DGA Awards. With Bullock encased in a 9’ x 9’ lightbox for hours on end to shoot her astronaut scenes in the blockbuster drama, she had only Cuarón’s voice to guide her. “But I didn’t understand...
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