Paul Thomas Anderson Reviews, Interviews & More
There’s been a lot of talk about the casting of Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson’s cinematic adaptation of reclusive author Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel. So far, the auteur has managed to grab Joaquin Phoenix, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, Martin Short, Reese Witherspoon, and Jena Malone—a rather auspicious cast thus far for a rather auspicious...
Paul Thomas Anderson has made a great number of movies that in short are magnificent. He's one of the best modern day filmmakers we have out there and the casting for his latest picture Inherent Vice should get many fans of his work excited.
We may recognize Owen Wilson as that pouty lipped lead guy in a number of comedies, but he can hold his own when it pertains to the more dramatic roles. It appears that Wilson will be going the more dramatic route again with his next possible role in the new Paul Thomas Anderson flick Inherent Vice.
Andrew Garfield, best known to audiences for his turns in The Social Network and The Amazing Spider-Man, has just signed up to join Martin Scorsese's next movie, while Oscar winner Benicio del Toro has agreed to join Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Inherent Vice,' which starts shooting soon.
Though Paul Thomas Anderson may be revered as one of the greatest working filmmakers of our day, his films have rarely been profitable. At best his films do a little better than break even (many don't even do that), which makes it that much harder for the director to get his projects going. Recently, Anderson struggled to find financing for The Master until Megan...
Perhaps in the haze of the post-Oscar season, there wasn’t a lot of pressure to put out films on Blu-ray this week, but we are getting two of the best films of last year, and one of the Coen Brothers’ most underrated films (partly because it was a bomb on release).
The conversation might've died down, but Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master is still one of the best films of the year. Don't you forget it. Anyhow, here's something that's likely to get PTA and Master fans feeling cheery – the Astor Theater in Melbourne, Australia held an hour-long audience Q&A with one of the greatest filmmakers of our time. And they...
The start of Oscar season is usually packed with a lot of hopefuls based on casts and prestige possibilities, but the reality is that at some point, someone's going to see your movie, and eventually consensus will build. One day you may be the talk of the town, and then the next day your movie will come out in limited theaters and find no audience. Or just as bad, it's forgotten about it...
Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master didn't need 3D or IMAX to break box office records, just a crowd of devoted cinephiles. The highly anticipated film opened in five theaters in New York and Los Angeles over the weekend, and set the record for highest per-screen-average for a live-action feature with a traditional release. If that sounds like just a bunch of gibberish,...
The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to There Will Be Blood came with a lot of misconceptions. Is it about Scientology? Yes and no. Does it deconstruct Scientology? Not at all. The film paints a portrait of a veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) who returns home, but is still adrift, only to end up in the arms (and cult) of Lancaster Dodd...
While his newest film, The Master, has yet to be officially released (September 14th can’t come soon enough), writer/ director Paul Thomas Anderson is already talking about his next project, and first literary adaptation—he’s currently writing a screenplay based on the novel Inherent Vice, by Thomas Pynchon.
It’s almost here—Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, one of our most anticipated films of the year, gets a limited run on September 14th before going wide on September 21st. But before it does, we’ve got one final trailer for the film, which, like the trailers that came before it, is a quietly unnerving collection of off-kilter, menacing music married to an abstract...
In what is quickly becoming one of our most anticipated films of the year, The Master has released yet another oddball trailer advertising its 70 mm goodness. This time it’s a specialized collection of clips meant to advertising the special screening of the film that will be held in Chicago tonight. Check it out below, in all of its “hey, we swear this isn’t about...
Many of the films that we were looking forward to at the beginning of the year have been pushed back to 2013. This includes Gangster Squad, Gravity, and World War Z. Thankfully, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master isn't among those on that list because we wouldn't know what to do with...
One of our most anticipated films of the year, Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘this isn’t about Scientology (but it’s totally about Scientology, you guys)’ film The Master, was secretly screened at a Los Angeles theater over the weekend, for unsuspecting movie fans who had arrived for a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. And we… are…...
The second teaser for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master dropped today, and it’s a creepy, unsettling, and hypnotic as the first teaser that was released in late May. While that trailer focused on a drifter played by Joaquin Phoenix who comes under the sway of an unseen L. Ron Hubbard type, the new clip is all about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s...
Some context: The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson’s long awaiting follow-up to 2007’s There Will Be Blood, has been passed from studio to studio since 2009, for varying reasons that range from budgetary issues to the fact that the film is supposedly a thinly-veiled and scathing critique of Scientology. Regardless of the reasoning, PTA finally got The...
Time for another round-up of this week's entertainment bits and pieces. The official logo for Zack Snyder's Man of Steel hit the web; The Weinstein Company finally gave Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master a release date; and the trailer for Safety Not Guaranteed is out. All that and...
Once again, it’s time for the News Roundup, in which we gather all the little news items we don’t care enough about to actually flesh out in a full post (just kidding, little news nuggets, we love you, too—and we’re sorry we told you that we loved our movie reviews and news posts more, we just had a lot to drink that night and work’s been really rough, lately). From new buzz...
Director Paul Thomas Anderson plans on reuniting with frequent collaborator Philip Seymour Hoffman for his next project. According to BFDealDemo, Anderson will once again tackle the theme of religion in an untitled period piece for Universal.
