Paul Thomas Anderson: C or D?

amateurist=the film Geir? ;)

strangely, the first thing that comes to mind is the laughable scene in "Dressed to Kill" where the black thugs at the train station exist solely to menace Nancy Allen and chase after her purty lil' white booty... i.e. their blackness is used as shorthand for "menacing strangers"... and this from a guy who howls at reruns of "All in the Family", okay!

god that is so ILM

it's been around for like six hours dude.

At least he's better than Aronofsky, imo, who is even more entrenched in flashy filmschooly formalism at the expensive of character development.

hah expense, sorry

something about tarkovsky's supa long takes makes them more tolerable. i think its because they seem to be just images with a real aesthetic quality to them, whereas bela tarr just had very long shots of people walking, for like, 7 minutes. sometimes it owkred, but as i got more tired, i got less patient. and it seemed to be underlong in some places: the point where the looters find the old man in the bath could have dwwelt a bit longer on the scene...

WTF?? There are only six or seven threads (!) and at least three of them are just me waffling about nothing. I'm not sure if Amateurist is being funny when he gets like this. Or is he just 1 BIG hata? :p

uk ilxors, magnolia is on ch. 4 tonight, 11pm.

So now then...

http://www.ptanderson.com/featurefilms/magnolia/articlesandinterviews/magessay.htm

Boogie Nights and Magnolia are both overweening Grand Statements -- saying what, I couldn't tell you. Tho the frogs ALMOST saved Magnolia.

but the vvv enjoyable scorsese-altman fest 'boogie nights' is not a big statement. it's just a lot of fun.

PDF of new Esquire feature on PTA's early years: http://www.cigarettesandredvines.com/news/?p=197

Nice read!

Good! I haven't actually read it myself yet.

Is there a 'There will be blood' thread on here? Finally saw this the other day and I need the ILE assessment.

for starters:

daniel day lewis is the most important person in the world

anticiapte "There Will Be Blood" by paul thomas anderson

cheerz. need to brush up on my searching technique.

Paul Thomas Anderson set to shoot his Scientology film

Paul Thomas Anderson set to shoot his Scientology film Paul Thomas Anderson, director of Magnolia and Boogie Nights, is set to start shooting a movie about a science fiction author who founds a religion. Called his "untitled Scientology film," it will star Philip Seymour Hoffman as the "master."

This movie, nicknamed The Master by fans, has been in the works for a while and has had a number of cool actors attached. But now the Cigarettes and Red Vines blog has gotten confirmation from Anderson himself that the movie starts shooting soon. Anybody who has seen Magnolia - with that scene where the motivational speaker character screams, "RESPECT the COCK!" - knows that Anderson's the right director to do this thing.

The Playlist got its hands on an early script for the movie, and reports:

"The Master" is the story of a charismatic intellectual (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who hatches a faith-based organization that begins to catch on in America in 1952 called The Cause. The core dynamic centers on the relationship between The Master and Freddie Sutton, (would be absolutely perfect for Paul Dano) an aimless twenty-something drifter and alcoholic who eventually becomes the leader's loyal lieutenant. As the faith begins to gain a fervent following, Freddie finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor.

Apparently there are enough parallels between the life story of L. Ron Hubbard and the "master" character to make it abundantly obvious what this movie is about. Even though, for legal reasons, you won't hear the S-word mentioned.

He turns 71 in a few days

Really? Wow--had no idea. I would never have guessed that Boogie Nights was made by someone almost 50; always thought PTA was around 30 at the time.

PTA is 50 now, he's referring to Elswit.

I'm laughing at myself...that makes sense.

Lol, I pointed that because I also misread it at first but realized that couldn't possibly be right.

Just watched Phantom Thread the other day and wow what a film... why do I have such a love/hate relationship with PTA? Couldn't stand Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, and Inherent Vice but I adored Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood and now Phantom Thread. What a weirdo.

https://x.com/JarmuschMood/status/1752353224860827696?s=20

yeah, they're shooting that up in Humboldt County. A bunch of PA's went into a thrift store multiple times to buy clothes for the extras, they're stoked

Vineland? Holy Shit! Is that confirmed?

More details... they're being cagey about what they're filming

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/leonardo-dicaprio-eureka-arcata-movie-filming-bc-18636090.php

DiCaprio in a bathrobe and scenes of paramilitary forces would definitely fit.

the thing i saw said the movie had a "contemporary" setting

Disappointed Leo isn't wearing the party dress and carrying the ladies' chainsaw.

More cast announced: Alana Haim, Teyana Taylor, Wood Harris, Shayna McHayle (aka Junglepussy)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/paul-thomas-anderson-alana-haim-teyana-taylor-1235813631/

Chase Infiniti does already feel like a Pynchon name tbh

PTA was shooting in downtown Sacramento on Saturday :D

Sacramento Bee included this v bitchy aside in the report “The film is reportedly based on the Thomas Pynchon novel "Vineland." In a biting Associated Press review that ran in The Sacramento Bee on March 4, 1990, Mario Szichman called the novel "a sea of boredom, sailed by hardly recognizable characters." “

Noted. Thx for that
lmao “biting”

I know you'll recognize this: "It's a honor to leave the Chronicle and go work for the Sacramento Bee. Dare to dream, right, Robert?"

looool yes I loved that line lmao

Lol