Chris Smith’s documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond looks at Carrey’s immersive screen performance as Andy Kaufman.
Tag: Paul Thomas Anderson
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Does 70-millimeter film improve the moviegoing experience?
The Music Box’s festival, devoted to the celluloid format, begins tonight.
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Paul Thomas Anderson directed a Joanna Newsom video
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Sapokanikan,” off the singer’s forthcoming album Divers.
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A great documentary about the making of Inherent Vice is now available to watch online
Underground filmmaker Laura Colella (Breakfast With Curtis) directed this dreamlike take on a Paul Thomas Anderson set.
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Pornography remains a major influence on Paul Thomas Anderson
Retired adult-film performer Michelle Sinclair plays a small (but crucial) role in Anderson’s Thomas Pynchon adaptation.
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The Lawrence of Arabia of stoner comedies—plus more new reviews and notable screenings
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago from 1/9-1/15/15
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Paul Thomas Anderson gives us a Pynchonian epic to get lost in
You don’t just watch Inherent Vice, you wander around it.
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Forget Jake Gyllenhaal—cinematographer Robert Elswit is the real star of Nightcrawler
Dan Gilroy’s satirical thriller represents a high point in the noted cinematographer’s career.
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Escape From the Battle for the Conquest of the Dawn of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Someone ought to revive I’m Still Here alongside The Master
Considering connections between two very different Joaquin Phoenix films
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Philip Seymour Hoffman
Highlights from the career of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Now playing: the low-budget doper reverie Breakfast With Curtis
Laura Colella’s distinctive “micro-indie” screens two more times this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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The recent revival of Baby the Rain Must Fall is a good excuse to rediscover Robert Mulligan
Successful in his lifetime, the director of To Kill a Mockingbird and Summer of ’42 has been overlooked in recent decades.
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The Swimmer and other movies that ask “who is that?”
Noting a few ways that filmmakers can defamiliarize the presence of actors