Film: Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Yale FIlm Archive: Sundance Revisited Film Series

 

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh, 1989, 35mm, 100 mins)

A fraying marriage, a reckless affair, and a drifter with a camcorder. Soderbergh’s landmark debut is a slow-burning study of honesty, repression, and emotional vulnerability, marked by whispered confessions and voyeuristic desire. It ignited the American indie revolution and remains as seductive, unsettling, and slyly funny as ever. James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, and Laura San Giacomo star in “a film whose enormous authority and intelligence extend to every detail” (Caryn James). 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.

 

Sundance Revisited features a selection of films from our collection that had their American or world premieres at the festival.

 

Yale Film Archive screenings are always free and open to the public. See the full film schedule here.