paul thomas anderson

Thursday, August 7, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

8:40AM Defamer Hollywood | Paul Thomas Anderson enthusiasts, take note: Word from the Largo mailing list (via /Film) has a PTA-scripted performance by Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen going off Aug. 5-6 at the club’s new space at the Coronet Theater. Organizers are keeping mum about everything but the price — $25 — and that tickets are available now. As the second home of Anderson’s frequent composer Jon Brion (who maintains a regular Friday gig) and other collaborators including Michael Penn and Aimee Mann, Largo seems a reasonable stopover for the filmmaker, though it hardly seems right that Fred Fucking Armisen unofficially inherits Daniel Day-Lewis’s leading-man mantle in the “mad, beautiful” continuum that is the PTA canon. Rudolph though? OK, sure, we can see it. [Largo via /Film] More »
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Unleash Your Inner Oil Baron

7:47AM Defamer Hollywood | While we wait for Paul Thomas Anderson to reissue a There Will Be Blood DVD edition that his masterpiece and its fans deserve, we can take comfort in the imagination of said fans around the Internet. We’ve learned that today, for example, is the first-ever International Talk Like Daniel Plainview Day, honouring Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis’s eminently quotable anti-hero for the ages. “If you’ve ever heard about ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day,’ this is essentially in the same vein,” write organisers Harrison Simon and Donald Polaski. “Also, do your best to drink a milkshake, preferably someone else’s.” Some sample quotes follow, but we will probably default to taking our dates to the Peach Tree Dance. I said, get liquored up and take ‘em to the Peach Tree Dance! Bastard in a basket! I’m finished. [Facebook] More »
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008

Overthinking ‘Blood’: What Did Daniel Plainview Tell Eli?

6:55AM Mark Graham | Remember a few years back when a not-quite-audible stolen whisper between Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Lost In Translation got the entire cinematic world buzzing? Well, while taking in our third viewing of There Will Be Blood the other evening, we noticed a scene in which something very similar occurs. Just moments after Daniel Plainview’s now legendary “I have abandoned my boy!” outburst at the Church Of The Third Revelation (the scene that will likely go down as having locked up Daniel Day-Lewis’ second Oscar for Best Actor), there is a brief exchange that takes place between him and Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) just after Plainview has been violently baptized. In the clip (see above), not only can no dialogue between the actors be heard, but Paul Thomas Anderson’s shooting script does not specifically indicate what the characters are saying to each other at this moment. Yet, as the clip clearly demonstrates, there is a relatively heated (if one-sided) conversation between the two. We have a few theories on what went down but, at this point, we would rather open it up for you to discuss. Leave your comments after the jump! More »
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