"Actor: Steven Soderbergh"

• Naqoyqatsi | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Using montage techniques Naqoyqatsi combines forms of mass media altered with digital techniques to create a swirling chronicle of the influence of technology reflecting the ever increasing globalisation of the world and the societies contained within it.

• Schizopolis | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Both a kind of home movie and a salute to the hip, pop-up sketch comedy of 1960s/early 1970s television--Laugh-In, Monty Python's Flying Circus, that sort of thing--Schizopolis is a hit-and-miss series of gags with vaguely connecting threads of Kafkaesque paranoia. Soderbergh himself stars as two people--one an ineffective dentist and the other a speechwriter for a cult movement called Eventualism, which has set out to "question all answers"--connected by their romances with the same woman, played by Soderbergh's real-life ex, Betsy Bramley. There isn't so much a story as a series of bits in which these characters often (though not necessarily) turn up, from press conferences on the subject of horse urination to old footage of nudists to a scene of an Eventualist exchange between husband and wife: "Generic greeting!" "Generic greeting returned!" None of this leads to a literal point but after a while an undercurrent of disease about making sense of the modern world becomes apparent beneath the jokes. Soderbergh (sex, lies, and videotape, Out of Sight) is certainly a filmmaker who goes his own way in life, always hitting his target in one spot or another and occasionally getting a bull's-eye for his trouble. Schizopolis is no bull's-eye and it has just as many detractors as admirers but it's impossible not to appreciate Soderbergh's conviction that making a film out on the fringes is a worthy endeavour. --Tom Keogh

• Decade Under The Influence | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A documentary examining the last truly 'Golden Age' of Hollywood film production the 1970s in which arthouse successes such as 'The Godfather' and 'French Connection' became bona fide blockbusters at the box office in the days before multimedia conglomerations and pre-release test scores...