Paul Thomas Anderson

[beamish14]

Warner Bros. has struck its first 70mm print of Boogie Nights, which is getting a 5-show initial run at the American Cinematheque

[Never Cursed]

PTA has directed another something for Thom Yorke (this time for his band The Smile with Jonny Greenwood), which premieres tomorrow in London

[FrauBlucher]

Something I didn't know... Anderson's choice as his favorite film of his is The Master. Interesting. I just read that in an old Indiewire article from 2018. Here

[pianocrash]

PTA has directed another something for Thom Yorke (this time for his band The Smile with Jonny Greenwood), which premieres tomorrow in London

Whoomp! There It Is.

[FrauBlucher]

David Denby from The New Yorker

[flyonthewall2983]

Great conversation with David Ansen and PTA, at a recent screening of Hard Eight

[ianthemovie]

Great conversation with David Ansen and PTA, at a recent screening of Hard Eight

I wonder who the member of the NYFF selection committee was that blocked There Will Be Blood from being shown at the 2007 festival (discussed around 48:00)...would that have been Richard Peña?

[Omensetter]

It had to have been Peña. That's certainly one of the more insane festival snubs I've heard.

[mfunk9786]

Whatever happened there, PTA didn't seem to have a lot of spite over it as Inherent Vice went on to open NYFF.

[hearthesilence]

It was the centerpiece film, and I know that because one of the most surreal moments I had at the NYFF happened that same year. I was forced to miss the opening due to some schmuck who set fire to an air traffic control facility in Illinois. (My original flight was cancelled as a result, as were many other flights.) I had already bought passes to ten films, the only year I bothered to do that, and needless to say, I was pissed off that I might be stuck in the same fucking awful culture-less suburb while all those tickets went to waste. I ended up missing the whole first week, but as soon as I got back to NYC, I went straight to the NYFF, right when Inherent Vice was having multiple screenings as the festival's centerpiece film. In the span of two minutes, I saw Anderson and Kent Jones walk past me and enjoy a nice long smoke ten feet away from me. (It was actually pretty crowded outside as it was a nice day, but everyone left them alone.) Then Jonathan Rosenbaum shuffles past me, the first time I ever saw him in person. Then a close friend and aspiring filmmaker spotted me, ran up to me and gave me a big hug. And I was like, "Jesus, why did I ever bother leaving?"