― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
At least he's better than Aronofsky, imo, who is even more entrenched in flashy filmschooly formalism at the expensive of character development.
― Vic, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 03:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 04:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
hah expense, sorry
― Vic, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 04:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
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...
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
uk ilxors, magnolia is on ch. 4 tonight, 11pm.
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 29 August 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― henry miller, Friday, 7 January 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― papa november (papa november), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― henry miller, Friday, 7 January 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link
So now then...
http://www.ptanderson.com/featurefilms/magnolia/articlesandinterviews/magessay.htm
― peepee (peepee), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Boogie Nights and Magnolia are both overweening Grand Statements -- saying what, I couldn't tell you. Tho the frogs ALMOST saved Magnolia.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
but the vvv enjoyable scorsese-altman fest 'boogie nights' is not a big statement. it's just a lot of fun.
― henry miller, Friday, 7 January 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― henry miller, Friday, 7 January 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
PDF of new Esquire feature on PTA's early years: http://www.cigarettesandredvines.com/news/?p=197
― caek, Friday, 19 September 2008 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice read!
― Nhex, Friday, 19 September 2008 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Good! I haven't actually read it myself yet.
― caek, Friday, 19 September 2008 10:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Is there a 'There will be blood' thread on here? Finally saw this the other day and I need the ILE assessment.
― sam500, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link
for starters:
daniel day lewis is the most important person in the world
― pro bowl was fun (omar little), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link
anticiapte "There Will Be Blood" by paul thomas anderson
― meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link
cheerz. need to brush up on my searching technique.
― sam500, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 July 2010 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link
(would be absolutely perfect for Paul Dano)
ok so this sez exactly what the dynamic must be btwn the characters and wants it to be twbb 2 i guess
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 17 July 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I am stoked for this!
― could be a bad day for (Abbott), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope there is a Jack Parsons guy in it.
― could be a bad day for (Abbott), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^oh man YES
― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Also johnny crunch idk that I's worry about it being There Will be Blood 2" bcz that really bad writer who wrote that piece isn't doing the casting, I bet.
― could be a bad day for (Abbott), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost -- There'd better be. Hell, a Jack Parsons movie would be enough.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
booooo
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/09/paul-thomas-andersons-untitled.html
― paying AFFECTIONATE homage to his somewhat exaggerated teeth (history mayne), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
that sucks
― dude (del), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
also, i thought somebody was making a jack parsons biopic, but maybe i am making that up?
― dude (del), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Conspiracy theory in the comments -- interesting.
― Excluding Skits and Such (Eazy), Monday, 20 September 2010 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
given that pta and psh have both collabed with tom cruise, i was surprised by this project tbh
― paying AFFECTIONATE homage to his somewhat exaggerated teeth (history mayne), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Back on.
― more horses after the main event (Eazy), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Megan Ellison: the over privileged heiress it's ok to like
― Number None, Monday, 9 May 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFzJXQMgCE
― fancy cure from all alarms (☆), Sunday, 24 June 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
We've been talking about the trailers to death over here:
THE MASTER (2012) P.T. Anderson's film on the origions of Scientology (sort of), Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, and Laura Dern
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 June 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
Been a while since I saw a picture, but ... old!
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/09/28/arts/28INHERENT/28INHERENT-master675.jpg
Happens to the best of us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/movies/paul-thomas-anderson-films-inherent-vice.html
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 September 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
A 180-degree turn from Mr. Anderson’s relentless oil odyssey “There Will Be Blood,” “Inherent Vice” is his most comedic and anarchic film since “Boogie Nights.” It’s a stoner detective film so overstuffed with visual gags and gimmicks that the filmmaker said he was inspired by slapstick spoofs like “Top Secret!” and “Airplane!”
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 September 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
Feeling that. Joanna Newsom narrating is...interesting
― Number None, Friday, 26 September 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
she's pretty perfect for Sortilége though
― Number None, Friday, 26 September 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link