It's the OUT OF SIGHT episode, and our guest is Bilge Ebiri. Do we need to sell you on this? OK, fine: in 1998 Steven Soderbergh took a job for hire directing an Elmore Leonard adaptation and ended up finding the style that would define much of his career, minting George Clooney as a movie star, capturing Jennifer Lopez's best-ever performance, working with Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman and a bunch of other people for the first time, and making one of the most watchable films of the 1990s. Jake also read the whole book. We talk about Leonard's moral universe, prison stuff, cop stuff, crime fiction stuff. I mean, come on. It's the OUT OF SIGHT episode with Bilge.

Further Reading:

Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard

Getting Away With It by Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, ed. Anthony Kaufman

"Louisiana's Angola: Proving ground for racialized capitalism" by W. T. Whitney, Jr.

 

Further Viewing:

POINT BLANK (Boorman, 1967)

DON'T LOOK NOW (Roeg, 1973)

GET SHORTY (Sonnenfeld, 1995)

JACKIE BROWN (Tarantino, 1997)

THE FARM: ANGOLA, USA (Garbus, Rideau & Stack, 1998)

"Karen Sisco" (2003)

"Justified" (2010)

 

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