Movie Details
| Title: | The Underneath | |
| Director: | Steven Soderbergh | |
| Year: | 1995 | |
| Genre: | Crime | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 12.10.20 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (17)
- Behind the Candelabra
- Bubble
- Che: Part One
- Che: Part Two
- Contagion
- The Good German
- Haywire
- The Informant!
- Kimi
- King of the Hill
- The Laundromat
- Logan Lucky
- Magic Mike
- No Sudden Move
- Ocean's Thirteen
- Ocean's Twelve
- Side Effects
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 12.10.20 | Blu-ray | This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2020 roll: 10 This is technically a bonus feature on the King of the Hill blu but I've never seen it so I left the disc in the pool after watching that film. I'm fine with this choice. I'm not expecting anything to blow me away but at least it's less than 2 hours and in english. Well there are a few nice surprises here. It was shot in Austin about ten years before I got here so there's some nice pre-boom shots of downtown and even a few of Fonda San Miguel (a mexican restaurant here in town). Rick Linklater has a cameo for some reason, along with a few other friendly 90s faces like Andy from Twin Peaks and Joe Don Baker (and Shelley Duvall in a head-scratching appearance). It's also based on the novel that Burt Lancaster noir Criss-Cross was adapted from, which makes it fits nicely in that mid-90s neo-noir moment along with movies like Red Rock West and The Last Seduction. It's not as good as any of those movies, but I guess it fits in with them. In the 20-minute interview about this film in the disc's special features, Soderbergh hits the nail on the head when he says the movie is too sleepy. It's like Peter Gallagher's been drugged for the whole thing... the movie is a collection of first takes by a distracted filmmaker, and all that's left is color filters and split diopters. I don't remember loving Lancaster's version but at least there he played up the sap. Here, I don't know what Gallagher is doing. Of course when you're given lines like "I love gambling!" you might be facing an uphill battle. Oh well. Next. |
