See cinema differently
With Licorice Pizza now in UK cinemas I thought I would update this deceptively difficult and openly personal task; ranking the feature films of Paul Thomas Anderson (originally posted - in quite a different order - back in June 2018). Expect a multitude of adjectives in my rundown below. The ordering you may well disagree …
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Stars: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Bradley Cooper Paul Thomas Anderson is - and always has been - a horny romantic. In autistic romcom Punch-Drunk Love he mirrored his great meet-cute with the perils of a phone sex hotline. For all it's labyrinthine conspiracies, Inherent Vice was a story of love, devotion and …
Director: Pablo Larraín Stars: Kristen Stewart, Sean Harris, Sally Hawkins Today, 5th November 2021, marks the UK release of Pablo Larraín's frosty Princess Diana biopic with Kristen Stewart in the lead role, but it also marks the release of Kid A Mnesiac; a grouping of Radiohead's two signature 2000/2001 albums which were originally released a …
Every year we go and see movies; moving images that move us, that tell stories, that ask us to feel something, invite us into their micro-climates. One of the most significant methods by which this collaborative art forms asks of our attention is through music. A score - and source music - can serve different …
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Stars: Vicky Krieps, Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville There is a darkly comic scene somewhere in the region of an hour into Phantom Thread in which a woman named Barbara Rose (Harriet Sansom Harris) sits pickled at a wedding party in an outfit made for her by master dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel …
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams The Master, the sixth film from American director Paul Thomas Anderson, insinuates itself. It creeps in on you from the edges. It infers instead of making direct statements. It's impressionistic. Teasing. Curious. It feels unusual because it goes against the standard values of …
The Lost Highway Hotel 