Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman: Together again.

My heart rate is elevated, and I'm typing as fast as I can.

My favorite American filmmaker is working with one of my favorite American actors, and the film looks like just the thing to stir up an exciting conversation.

As of yet, no official word on a title. (Variety implies that it might be called Master or The Master, but that's unclear.)

The first time I saw Hoffman in an Anderson film, he played a nurse, and it was a beautiful thing to see. Considering the increasingly theological implications of Anderson's stories, I cannot wait to see what he does with this story:

The drama does not so much scrutinize self-started churches like Scientology or the Mormons, as much as it explores the need to believe in a higher power, the choice of which one to embrace and the point at which a belief system graduates into a religion.