Soderbergh talks to IndieWire about "Jaws," his 15-year project to write a book about directing, and working to get his entire film catalog in 4K HDR.
Steven Soderbergh isn’t just the director and cinematographer of his latest film. He’s also, in a way, its central character. “Presence” is filmed entirely from the POV of a ghost inside a home a family has just moved into.
The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.”
Soderbergh didn’t capitalize on his success. Through most of the ’90s, he directed movies more suited to the arthouse than the cineplex. And in 1996, he was in Baton Rouge again, directing a play for LSU’s Swine Palace Theatre.
There’s only so much that a person can hold before everything collapses.” With Presence now in theaters, Vogue spoke to Liu and Liang about preparing for their unconventional film—and their own relationships to the paranormal.
Doing his own camerawork, the director gleefully enriches the haunted-house genre with a simple but ingenious device.
Lucy Liu and Julia Fox star in a film that puts the viewer in the perspective of the ghost haunting a family’s new home
Presence is a more delicate and nuanced haunted house movie that takes a more elevated route to horror as opposed to more gory ghost stories like 13 Ghosts or The Haunting in Connecticut. If you’re looking to watch something with fewer horrific images and jump scares while you wait to see Presence, check out these similar movies!
Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh takes us there in “ Presence ,” a ghost story filmed entirely in a New Jersey home. Unlike most films in the genre, the movie, in theaters Friday (Jan. 24), is told solely from the point of view of the ghost.
Steven Soderbergh’s new chiller takes place in one of the most troubled of all movie locations: an outwardly normal family home.
The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.” The filmmaker traps the audience in a beautiful suburban home, letting us drift through rooms with this curious being, in and out of delicate conversations as we (and the ghost) try to piece together a puzzle blindly.