Getting Away With ItGetting Away With It

Steven Soderbergh and Richard Lester are a generation apart, but theyshare a sense of humour and a passion for cinema. Soderbergh's freshman film, sex, lies and videotape , inaugurated a movementin US independent cinema. Lester's freewheeling work in the '60s and '70s ( Help! , A Hard Day's Night , The Knack , How I Won the War , Petulia ) helped create a 'new wave' of British film-making. Here, the two cineastes discuss their mutual passion for the medium in a frank,funny and free-ranging series of interviews. Also included is Soderbergh's diary of an extraordinary twelve months in which he ventured into 'guerilla film-making' with offbeatprojects Schizopolis and Gray's Anatomy , before returning to the Hollywood fray with the George Clooney hit Out of Sight .