Paul Thomas Anderson

A blog dedicated to the talented filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.

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"We were talking about what it would be like if some people got high and watched inherent vice" 

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I am the Third Revelation! I am who the Lord has chosen!

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This happens. This is something that happens.

Magnolia (1999) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

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I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)

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Boogie Nights (1997)

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Free winds and no tyranny for you, Freddie

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Paul Thomas Anderson photographed by Art Streiber 

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"I need your help, Doc."

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There Will Be Blood (2007)

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Marc Maron: Let’s do ‘Magnolia’ […] In your mind, what is that film about? Like, if you were to say one poetic line—… Give me a haiku.

Paul Thomas Anderson: My dad.

MM: The whole thing?

PTA: Yeah, for sure. I mean… I’d just lost my dad, and I wrote a movie. It was like that. I remember talking to an oncologist on the phone, who was essentially telling me that there was no way my dad was going to make it — and one of the first things that popped into my mind was — ‘you’re telling me that frogs are falling from the sky.’

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Jena Malone, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Joanna Newsom screened Inherent Vice for a packed house at the Ace Hotel last night. 

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Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999

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In Hard Eight (1996), Samuel L. Jackson refers to characters Philip Baker Hall would go on to play in future Paul Thomas Anderson films. Hall portrays Floyd Gondoli in Boogie Nights (1997) and Jimmy Gator in Magnolia (1999). The third, Mumbles O’Malley, has yet to be realized and it remains unknown if he ever will.

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Paul Thomas Anderson's Tour of L.A.

There are filmmakers whose work is inextricably linked with a locale—Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese are inseparable from New York, Nebraska is owned by Alexander Payne, Federico Fellini transformed our vision of Rome. Los Angeles, of course, has been the backdrop of thousands of movies since the silent era. We think we know it, but it takes an artist to help us see it anew. In such films as Boogie Nights,Magnolia, and Punch-Drunk Love—all set in his beloved Valley—and in his latest, Inherent Vice, set in L.A.’s South Bay, Anderson leads us down side streets we’ve never taken, arriving at destinations where we’ve never been.

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Paul Thomas Anderson and David Ansen photographed in an Agoura Hills house used in Anderson’s new film, Inherent Vice.(x)