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Soderbergh's Spalding Gray Documentary Is FinishedBy Perri Nemiroff: 2009-09-12 15:02:39
While everyone has focused on his highly anticipated film The Informant!, Steven Soderbergh slips in that he’s finished another project, a documentary about the late Spalding Gray.
Gray was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter, but was mainly known for his monologues. In June of 2001 he was seriously injured in a car crash leading to episodes of depression. He went missing in January of 2004 and his body was pulled from the East River in New York two months later. When asked about the project during an interview with First Showing, Soderbergh said the film has been completed and will be shown at the Slamdance Film Festival in January. Soderbergh, who hasn’t had much experience working on documentaries, explained that there was a lot of trial and error but he’s ultimately pleased with how the film turned out. “We made a very specific choice about how to do it, and we really stuck with it, I think. I think it was a good choice and I think it's very organic to who he is, but it's not typical, and I'm really curious to see how people are going to respond." Soderbergh describes the film as a “new monologue.” Rather than go out and get fresh interviews with Gray’s friends and colleagues, Soberbergh opted to rely solely on footage shot from throughout Gray’s life. While this is a very different method to making a doc, it fits Gray’s style of work. It’s nice to hear a director is taking a more unique approach to documentary filmmaking, especially when the subject is so captivating. It should be interesting to see how this one turns out.
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