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Home » Paul Thomas Anderson

Tag: Paul Thomas Anderson

Posted inFilm

Licorice Pizza

by Dmitry Samarov January 5, 2022January 5, 2022

I’d kill to live in a universe written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Posted inFilm

The madness to Jim Carrey’s method

by Tal Rosenberg January 10, 2018August 18, 2021

Chris Smith’s documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond looks at Carrey’s immersive screen performance as Andy Kaufman.

Posted inBlogs

Does 70-millimeter film improve the moviegoing experience?

by Ian Simmons February 19, 2016August 18, 2021

The Music Box’s festival, devoted to the celluloid format, begins tonight.

Posted inBlogs

Paul Thomas Anderson directed a Joanna Newsom video

by Tal Rosenberg August 10, 2015August 18, 2021

Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Sapokanikan,” off the singer’s forthcoming album Divers.

Posted inBlogs

A great documentary about the making of Inherent Vice is now available to watch online

by Ben Sachs July 7, 2015August 18, 2021

Underground filmmaker Laura Colella (Breakfast With Curtis) directed this dreamlike take on a Paul Thomas Anderson set.

Posted inBlogs

Pornography remains a major influence on Paul Thomas Anderson

by Ben Sachs January 19, 2015August 18, 2021

Retired adult-film performer Michelle Sinclair plays a small (but crucial) role in Anderson’s Thomas Pynchon adaptation.

Posted inBlogs

The Lawrence of Arabia of stoner comedies—plus more new reviews and notable screenings

by Ben Sachs January 9, 2015August 18, 2021

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago from 1/9-1/15/15

Posted inFilm

Paul Thomas Anderson gives us a Pynchonian epic to get lost in

by Ben Sachs January 7, 2015August 18, 2021

You don’t just watch Inherent Vice, you wander around it.

Posted inBlogs

Forget Jake Gyllenhaal—cinematographer Robert Elswit is the real star of Nightcrawler

by Ben Sachs November 21, 2014August 18, 2021

Dan Gilroy’s satirical thriller represents a high point in the noted cinematographer’s career.

Posted inBlogs

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

by J.R. Jones July 18, 2014August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Someone ought to revive I’m Still Here alongside The Master

by Ben Sachs July 16, 2014August 18, 2021

Considering connections between two very different Joaquin Phoenix films

Posted inBlogs

Jude Law, Nicolas Cage, Scarlett Johansson, and the rest of this week’s screenings

by J.R. Jones April 11, 2014August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Weekly Top Five: The best of Philip Seymour Hoffman

by Drew Hunt February 9, 2014August 18, 2021

Highlights from the career of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman

Posted inBlogs

Now playing: the low-budget doper reverie Breakfast With Curtis

by Ben Sachs January 6, 2014August 18, 2021

Laura Colella’s distinctive “micro-indie” screens two more times this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

Posted inBlogs

The recent revival of Baby the Rain Must Fall is a good excuse to rediscover Robert Mulligan

by Ben Sachs November 26, 2013August 19, 2021

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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