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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:08 am
by Antoine Doinel
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:48 am
by flyonthewall2983
Cool piece, especially the Alan Parker part. Didn't know he had a hand in the snowball effect of Paul's career.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:38 pm
by Antoine Doinel
Ebert says
Magnolia is a
Great Movie.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:23 pm
by Narshty
For all
Boogie Nights fans and more besides:
Exhausted: John Holmes The Real Story (part 1)
Frankly, I'm amazed he wasn't sued.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 7:51 pm
by exte
This was once available on
the criterion laserdisc of Boogie Nights. "Excerpts from Exhausted; John C. Holmes, the Real Story with commentary."
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:17 am
by inneyp
Anderson's greatest defining talent is one rooted in personal despair, and it is one which can't be achieved through imitation. All of his characters eccentric idiosyncrasies, all their seemingly fucked up compulsions, serve as compensation for one uniting ill- they're lonely.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:40 pm
by Tom Hagen
The porn industry is apparently borrowing its
latest business and litigation strategies from the Mattress Man's playbook.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 1:19 am
by mfunk9786
Shit, I think I've downloaded that movie
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 4:40 pm
by LavaLamp
My favorite P.T. Anderson film is
Hard Eight (1997). The minimalist approach & storyline was quite compelling. The anonymous urban landscape of casinos, diners on the side of the highway, & motel rooms is used to great effect here. I also liked how the theme of redemption/making up for past sins was explored in the film.
The last scene with Sydney in the diner where he notices the tell-tale stain on his shirt & then slowly covers it up is perfect.
I'm guessing a lot of people haven't even seen this film due to it's OOP status on DVD, and also since it was PTA's first feature. Here's hoping for a decent Criterion BD release somewhere down the road...
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:47 pm
by HitchcockLang
LavaLamp wrote:My favorite P.T. Anderson film is
Hard Eight (1997). The minimalist approach & storyline was quite compelling. The anonymous urban landscape of casinos, diners on the side of the highway, & motel rooms is used to great effect here. I also liked how the theme of redemption/making up for past sins was explored in the film.
The last scene with Sydney in the diner where he notices the tell-tale stain on his shirt & then slowly covers it up is perfect.
I'm guessing a lot of people haven't even seen this film due to it's OOP status on DVD, and also since it was PTA's first feature. Here's hoping for a decent Criterion BD release somewhere down the road...
I love Hard Eight as well. I have the DVD which is decent (2 directors commentaries -- weird and a little redundant, and some deleted scenes if I remember correctly). Is there any legitimate possibility that Criterion may release this? Do they have rights? I ask because you're the second person I've seen mention it.
Hopefully if Criterion did get a hold of it, they could keep all the old extras (including both commentaries), and add perhaps a new series of interviews with Anderson, Hall, Reily, Paltrow, Jackson, etc. and they would absolutely HAVE to include a high def scan of Cigarettes and Coffee (PTA's student film which is in some ways almost a rough draft of the themes and characters of Hard Eight).
Question: Would Criterion release it as Hard Eight (the only title it has ever been released under) or the director preferred title Sydney?
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 6:05 pm
by mfunk9786
Interview with PTA from January of this year wrote:You recently said that you’re working on the “Punch-Drunk Love” Blu-ray this year. Any plans for “Hard Eight” to follow (or precede) it and is there any chance of a Criterion release for either title?
We are trying to track down lots of elements regarding Hard Eight/Sydney. It would be ideal to get a tune up/re-transfer, etc on that sooner than later. Be great if Criterion would put it out but they haven't said anything to me about it.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 6:58 pm
by Roger Ryan
HitchcockLang wrote:
Question: Would Criterion release it as Hard Eight (the only title it has ever been released under) or the director preferred title Sydney?
Despite Anderson's preference for SYDNEY, I think it mistakenly puts the emphasis on Phillip Baker Hall's character from the get-go. One of the charms of the film is the gradual realization that he is central to the story.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 7:11 pm
by knives
Also in recent years Anderson has shied away from his initial zealousness over the title.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 8:30 pm
by John Cope
As much as I love all of Anderson's work I do kind of wish sometimes that he would return to this mode once in awhile and make something very small scale and intimate again. We know he's capable.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 8:38 pm
by mfunk9786
The Master felt that way to me, and so did Punch-Drunk Love. Perhaps we have different definitions of small scale and intimate, though!
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 11:43 pm
by flyonthewall2983
John Cope wrote:As much as I love all of Anderson's work I do kind of wish sometimes that he would return to this mode once in awhile and make something very small scale and intimate again. We know he's capable.
I'd actually like to see him do genre films. He could do a Great horror film.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 1:00 am
by Matt
Depending on how elastic your definition of "horror" is, I think There Will Be Blood fits the bill nicely.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 12:44 pm
by med
If it stays true to the source material, Inherent Vice will be a genre film.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 6:06 pm
by Sonmi451
flyonthewall2983 wrote:
I'd actually like to see him do genre films. He could do a Great horror film.
Absolutely. Why more contemporary auteurs, especially American, don't attempt horror I do not know. What's the last great American horror film, The Shining? Amazing really. P.T. would fit the bill perfectly.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 6:07 pm
by knives
The House of the Devil probably qualifies.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 6:14 pm
by Sonmi451
While I liked The House of the Devil very much, I wouldn't quite call it a great film. Besides, Ti West is a genre filmmaker, I'm thinking more of contemporary masters trying their hand at horror (a la Kubrick).
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:59 pm
by mfunk9786
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:33 pm
by Movie-Brat
Sonmi451 wrote:flyonthewall2983 wrote:
I'd actually like to see him do genre films. He could do a Great horror film.
Absolutely. Why more contemporary auteurs, especially American, don't attempt horror I do not know. What's the last great American horror film, The Shining? Amazing really. P.T. would fit the bill perfectly.
Well I do know Nicholas Winding Refn is doing one called I Walk With The Dead. Though I'd love to see Paul Thomas Anderson try a Horror film himself.
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:03 pm
by mfunk9786
Why does Nicolas Winding Refn belong in an [overdone] discussion about American contemporary auteurs, again?
Re: Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:32 pm
by Zot!
He's arguably part American....
Refn wrote:I grew up in New York so I’m not very Scandinavian. I have a Danish passport but I’m a New Yorker by heart now, said the director, who immigrated to the U.S. when he was 8 years old.