The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1989 features the Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Steven Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies and Videotape. Written and directed by Soderbergh and starring James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Laura San Giacomo and Peter Gallagher, Sex, Lies and Videotape debuted at the 1989 Sundance Film Festival and went on to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sex-lies-and-videotape-1989), Desson Howe in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/sexliesandvideotaperhowe_a0b22d.htm), and Caryn James in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/04/movies/review-film-a-dance-of-sex-and-love-through-a-lens-darkly.html).
Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1989 installment featuring the year’s biggest flop, Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
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