There are those who credit Steven Soderbergh with creating the late 20th-century boom in independent filmmaking. Certainly there had been other directors working outside the studio system for many, many years, but after his small art-house film "sex, lies and videotape" won the 1989 Palme d'Or at Cannes, a flood of other indie moviemakers followed in his wake. (The role played by the Sundance Film Festival also cannot be overlooked.) Still, as the new millennium dawned, it was perhaps ironic that this stalwart non-Hollywood director had crossed over and become the darling of the mainstream and