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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: 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: Hong Chau, Joaquin Phoenix, Martin Short For some, myself included, there's a palpable sense of anticipation whenever a new Paul Thomas Anderson film lands, especially in recent years as the austerity of There Will Be Blood and The Master have rushed him to the top of the stack of America's brightest, most …
Year: 2002 Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Stars: Adam Sandler (Barry Egan), Emily Watson (Lena Leonard), Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Dean Trumbell), Mary Lynn Rajskub (Elizabeth), Luis Guzmán (Lance) Genre: Romance / Comedy It begins with a man in a blue suit sat at a desk in a seemingly vast space. Barry Egan, a nervous, twitchy entrepeneur …
The Lost Highway Hotel 