Getting 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.