For a film that won five Oscars, Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic is overlooked today. His other 2000 film, Erin Brockovich, has endured because of Julia Roberts’ performance (one of her best), and I saw it pop up on many “best of the century so far” lists people were making after Quentin Tarantino talked about his favorites on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, a regular source for headlines on slow news days. 2000 was the turning point for Soderbergh, when he shot his last film with a cinematographer (Ed Lachmann) and his first as his own DP. Читать дальше...