Tag: Presence
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Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Presence’ Sells to Neon After World Premiere at Sundance
“Presence,” a twisty new thriller that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, has sold to Neon.The movie, which is directed by Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh, puts an inventive spin on the haunted house genre. It unfolds from the perspective of the spectral entity and is primarily interested in dramatizing the issues of the people living…
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‘Presence’ Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Unsettling Ghost Story Menace Is Memorable & Magical [Sundance]
Since returning from his announced retirement from feature filmmaking, Steven Soderbergh has been on a tear of productivity unmatched since the heyday of Hollywood’s studio system. His quickie projects might feel like slight exercises in style or storytelling, but they have never felt disposable. Soderbergh’s fluency in film grammar and commitment to craftsmanship at any…
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Sundance 2024: Presence, A Real Pain
An experiment in shooting a movie entirely from a first-person Pov, Steven Soderbergh’s Presence has conceptual precedents but no meaningful ones in terms of the camera’s weight and the operator’s resulting physical relationship to it. 1947’s Lady in the Lake tried nonstop subjectivity with a bulky 35mm camera; 2009’s Enter the Void eliminated the embodied…