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Paul Thomas Anderson

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Weekender: Fourth Weekend in January — Dark on Power of the Dog; Wilford on Licorice Pizza

Weekender: Fourth Weekend in January — Dark on Power of the Dog; Wilford on Licorice Pizza

After a few "Weekenders" away, here are a few highlights from the last few weeks.

Weekender: 2022 film calendar; Luci Shaw's latest poems; C'mon C'mon; Azor; Licorice Pizza

Weekender: 2022 film calendar; Luci Shaw's latest poems; C'mon C'mon; Azor; Licorice Pizza

This week: An astounding 2022 preview. The upcoming poetry of Luci Shaw. And some initial thoughts on C'mon C'mon, Azor and Licorice Pizza.

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"The Master": Too Much Art for Oscar?

This article by Tyler Sage on Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master," published at The Los Angeles Review of Books, is so refreshing after reading a storm of hasty reactions, wild accusations, and complaints about this "difficult" work of art. It's a thoughtful, patient, studious consideration of this

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"The Master": So Many Thoughtful Examinations and Interpretations, So Little Time!

Do you feel the tremors? Yeah, that's the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie in theaters. In-depth reviews are popping up everywhere. Here are links to some that I've found very helpful.

The Master (2012) - A Long Post-Viewing Conversation

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The Master (2012) - A Long Post-Viewing Conversation

Here's an imaginary conversation between four moviegoers after they emerge from a screening of The Master. It's a long conversation. But, well... it's a complicated movie.

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Religion, Fuel, Fathers, Sons, Egomania, America: A Look Back at "There Will Be Blood"

Five years ago, on September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" screened for the first time. And a sure-thing Best Actor Oscar-winner came into plain view. Daniel Plainview, to be precise.

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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

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Brian Volck Discovers "There Will Be Blood"

Brian Volck saw There Will Be Blood for the first time on DVD. That's too bad, as it was a riveting big-screen experience. But Volck does not appear to have suffered much. He was, to borrow the term my friend Brandon Fibbs employed when he first saw the

Specials: Coppola on Great "Young Directors." Nick Cave Raises Lazarus. Performances We Won't See.

Coppola's Favorite Young Directors Francis Ford Coppola on his favorite "young directors": Q: A: I know this is gonna sound funny, but the one young director I really admire is Woody Allen, because he writes 'em, and he makes 'em, and he goes on

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Seitz on Paul Thomas Anderson

Matt Zoller Seitz is still writing about There Will Be Blood. Here he is in The New York Times celebrating Paul Thomas Anderson.

There Will Be Blood (2007)

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There Will Be Blood (2007)

This review was originally published in an abridged edition at Christianity Today. • In Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, detective Jake Gittes became suspicious of a devious California millionaire named Noah Cross, played by the great John Huston. Dazzled by Cross’s fortune, which he’d acquired through laying irrigation pipelines across

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LA Weekly critics hail "There Will Be Blood" as a film of historic significance

LA Weekly critics love Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood: There Will Be BloodWeeklyNo Country For Old MenPsycho2001Bonnie and ClydeThere Will Be Blood

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There Will Be "There Will Be Blood"

At Hollywood Elsewhere, the buzz for Paul Thomas Anderson's new film is building... with some substance this time. My favorite American director. My favorite actor. I'm getting impatient. WHOAH! Here's a review by Marjorie Baumgarten at Variety. And lo and behold... Radiohead's

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Updates on Paul Thomas Anderson and Brett Ratner projects

THERE WILL BE DANIEL DAY-LEWIS! While the list of films I cannot wait to see in 2006 has grown rather large, none of them match my eagerness for the next Paul Thomas Anderson film -- There Will Be Blood. So any news about the next film from the director of

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Is it really Paul Thomas Anderson directing "Prairie Home Companion"?

Robert Altman is, officially, the director of the big screen version of Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. But reports from the set, according to MNSpeak, suggest otherwise. Apparently, Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-drunk Love, Magnolia) is shouldering a good deal of responsibility. MNSpeak says, "the producers of

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At last! Paul Thomas Anderson's got a new movie!

I've been waiting for news about the next Paul Thomas Anderson film for a long, long time. At last, the official PTA site has the news. The director of Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love is taking on Oil, a 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair. The site says, "It&