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Che Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Steven Soderbergh, Country: France/Spain, Release: 2008, Runtime: 268 with a 30 minute intermission The most eagerly awaited event at Cannes last May, Steven Soderbergh’s sweeping, Spanish-language meditation on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare focuses on the two key episodes in Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s military career. Benicio Del Toro (Best Actor at Cannes) brilliantly embodies the Argentine-born revolutionary, but Che is hardly a biopic. Rather, it’s a structuralist epic that in the tradition of Roberto Rossellini’s historical dramas objectively ponders the flow of history. The first two hours, mainly set in the late 1950s, concern the miraculous success of the Cuban Revolution. The second part dwells in harrowing detail on Guevara’s doomed attempt to repeat this victory a decade later in Bolivia. At once boldly simplified and massively detailed, this didactic, dialectical and dazzlingly choreographed combat film challenges us to confront a figure as relevant to our times as he was to his own. An IFC Films release. Steven Soderbergh b. 1963, Atlanta, Georgia 2007 Ocean’s Thirteen 2006 The Good German 2005 Bubble NYFF 2004 Ocean's Twelve 2004 Eros (segment: Equilibrium) 2003 K Street (TV, 10 episodes) 2002 Solaris 2002 Full Frontal 2001 Ocean's Eleven 2000 Traffic 2000 Erin Brockovich 1999 The Limey 1998 Out of Sight 1996 Schizopolis 1996 Gray’s Anatomy 1995 Underneath 1993 King of the Hill 1991 Kafka 1989 Sex, Lies, and Videotape

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