The Limey
The camera and the audience never stopped loving Terence Stamp, with a face as fascinating as it was enigmatic, his British class, and his impeccably controlled acting. We honor his memory by presenting our 35mm print of Soderbergh’s The Limey, where the actor, making the most of his Cockney accent, delivers one of his greatest performances.
Just released from prison in England, Wilson heads to the United States to investigate the suspicious death of his daughter. He embarks on an impulsive and vengeful journey through Los Angeles.
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor. A pioneer of modern independent cinema, he later drew acclaim for formally inventive films made within the studio system. He had his directorial breakthrough with the indie drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). At 26, Soderbergh became the youngest solo director to win the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival, and the film garnered worldwide commercial success, as well as numerous accolades. His next five films, including the critically lauded King of the Hill (1993), found limited commercial success. He pivoted into more mainstream fare with the crime comedy Out of Sight (1998), the biopic Erin Brockovich (2000) and the crime drama Traffic (2000), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. Soderbergh found further popular and critical success with the Ocean's trilogy and film franchise (2001–18), Contagion (2011), the Magic Mike trilogy (2012–2023), and many more. His film career spans a multitude of genres, but his specialties are psychological, crime, and heist films. His films often revolve around familiar concepts with an avant-garde arthouse approach. They center on themes of shifting personal identities, vengeance, sexuality, morality, and the human condition. Many of Soderbergh's films are anchored by multi-dimensional storylines with plot twists, nonlinear storytelling, experimental sequencing, and suspenseful soundscapes.
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