Paul Thomas Anderson Archive

  • Forget, for a moment, that it broke a studio – Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate is a more responsible film than this one. Two L.A. operas, Magnolia and Boogie Nights, made […]

    The Master

    Forget, for a moment, that it broke a studio – Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate is a more responsible film than this one. Two L.A. operas, Magnolia and Boogie Nights, made […]

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  • A rainy-day tapestry of fear, failure, and forgiveness. Really, it’s a pop opera (with a score by Harry Nilsson and Aimee Mann), and the characters don’t know it until they […]

    Magnolia

    A rainy-day tapestry of fear, failure, and forgiveness. Really, it’s a pop opera (with a score by Harry Nilsson and Aimee Mann), and the characters don’t know it until they […]

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  • An effigy of greed. As a “deep,” long-faced epic, it’s grim in a facile way. Content denudes form: Loveless and vile, Daniel Plainview (the hero) is mad from the word […]

    There Will Be Blood

    An effigy of greed. As a “deep,” long-faced epic, it’s grim in a facile way. Content denudes form: Loveless and vile, Daniel Plainview (the hero) is mad from the word […]

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