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    TALK Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Boogie Nights)



    http://us.imdb.com/Name?Anderson,%20Paul%20Thomas
    Date of birth (location)
    1 January 1970
    Studio City, California, USA

    Trade mark
    Often casts Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Melora Walters.

    (Director's Trademark) Camel Lights: All smoking characters in Anderson's movies smoke Camel Lights [Philip Baker Hall in Hard Eight (1996), William H. Macy in Magnolia (1999).]

    Frequently uses the Iris In/Out film technique. This technique has one part of the scene encircled, while the rest is black. Also used during the silent film era as a way of opening and closing shots.


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    Trivia
    Lives in Los Angeles, USA with girlfriend Fiona Apple. !!!!!

    Dropped out of NYU's film program after two days. Subsequently got his tuition payment back and used the money to make Cigarettes and Coffee (1993).

    He shaves his head before SOME productions. He did not shave his head before the production of "Magnolia", as evidenced in the documentary on the DVD.

    So who is Paul Thomas Anderson to you?
    Do you like his movies?
    What is your favorite movie that he directed?


    wow, very short list, but great movies :big grin:
    10 movies
    i like
    Boogie Nights (1997)
    http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118749 :big grin:
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    With his 1997 film Boogie Nights, then-27-year-old director Paul Thomas Anderson took his place on the list of Hollywood wunderkinds. A brash, ensemble-driven epic made as a tribute to the Los Angeles porn industry of the 1970s, the film was both an exploration of the industry and the '70s version of the American dream. Combining sharp humor, indelible poignancy, and painstaking detail, Boogie Nights was hailed by one critic as the first great film about the '70s to come out since the '70s. The wide acclaim surrounding it -- as well as Anderson's Best Screenplay Oscar nomination -- put Anderson at the forefront of young American filmmakers, establishing him as one of the most exciting talents to come along in years.
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    The son of voice actor Ernie Anderson, he was born in Studio City, California, on January 1, 1970. Growing up in the Valley, where the porn industry thrived during the '70s, Anderson became obsessed with porn movies at a young age. He had a greater fascination with the medium than he did with school; by all accounts a poor student, he was kicked out of the sixth grade for bad behavior. Always interested in becoming a filmmaker, Anderson made his first movie in high school, a 30-minute mockumentary entitled Dirk Diggler. Inspired by an article he had read on porn star John Holmes, Anderson's short -- about a porn star and his 13-inch penis -- would later become the inspiration for Boogie Nights.


    After a brief stint as an English major at Emerson College and an even shorter stint at the New York University Film School, Anderson began his career as a production assistant on various TV movies, videos, and game shows in Los Angeles and New York. In 1992, he made Cigarettes & Coffee, a short with five vignettes set in a diner. After it was screened at the 1993 Sundance Festival, Hollywood came calling, and Anderson made his first full-length feature, Sydney -- retitled Hard Eight. Released in 1996, the making of the film -- a crime drama set in the world of gambling and prostitution -- proved disastrous for the director, who was fired by the film's production company and not allowed to release his own version of the movie until it had been selected for competition at Cannes. Hard Eight ultimately earned a fair number of positive notices, but went virtually unheard of by audiences.


    During the troubling production of Hard Eight in 1995, Anderson began writing Boogie Nights as a way to retain a hold on his sanity. The great success that surrounded the film's release all but ensured that the writer/director would be spared the kind of problems that had marred his previous effort. The recipient of numerous honors, including three Oscar and two Golden Globe nominations, Boogie Nights was widely hailed as one of the best films of the year, if not the decade.


    Anderson remained mum on what he would do next, but in 1999 he resurfaced with Magnolia. Like Boogie Nights, it was an ensemble film of epic length, and featured performances by such Anderson regulars as Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, Philip Baker Hall, William H. Macy, and Julianne Moore. Centered around themes of love, death, abandonment, and familial estrangement, it served up a lavish helping of the sort of sweeping narrative, visual flair, and off-kilter insight that Anderson had made his trademark. Critics responded in kind, once again praising Anderson's touch with actors, particularly his ability to evince a full-fledged supporting performance from the usually-plastic Tom Cruise. Though it turned up on a slew of 10-best lists and secured Oscar nods for Cruise, Aimee Mann's original song "Save Me", and Anderson's screenplay, Magnolia's three-hour-and-twenty-minute running time scared off audiences, and the film failed to break even Boogie Nights' $25 million tally.


    Scaling back his worldview somewhat, Anderson spent part of the next year honing his comic skills in the most unlikely of places: on NBC's venerable sketch show Saturday Night Live. Tagging along for an episode that featured then-girlfriend Fiona Apple as musical guest, Anderson was tapped for his writing talents as well as for a couple of pre-filmed mock-documentary segments. The comedy bug took hold, and it wasn't long before the auteur would team up with SNL alum Adam Sandler for a high-concept, low-budget (by Sandler standards, at least) romantic comedy. An off-kilter fusion of '50s Technicolor musical, extortion thriller, and the real-life tale of one man's pudding compulsion, Punch-Drunk Love premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, nabbing its creator a tie for the Best Director prize (shared with the legendary South Korean filmmaker Im Kwon-Taek). Though its fall release in the States was accompanied by ecstatic reviews and careful marketing, Punch-Drunk failed to connect with audiences -- who were perhaps expecting a conventional Sandler comedy -- and petered out at the box office after a promising limited-release run. ~ Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide
    Well Boogie Nights was good, and it did have a certain Brilliant scene. I want to see Punch Drunk Lve but this director really doesn't appeal to me. I thought Magnolia looked crap, and I've heard a lot f people who say it is.

    Boogie Nights ****

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    so far i've seen boogie nights and punch drunk love. still haven't seen magnolia, but the trailer is superb, one of the best ever, hopefully the movie is on the same level
    i like boogie nights a bit more than punch drunk love, although it's a very refreshing alternative to all the standard romantic comedies that are released. also great performance by adam sandler. it seems pta can get the best out of his actors, as he did the same with mark wahlberg in boogie nights and from what i heard tom cruise in magnolia.

    i'd give
    boogie nights 9/10 and
    punch drunk love 8/10
    somebody told me you have a boyfriend who looks like a girldfriend that i had in february of last year the killers

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    Re: TALK Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Boogie Nights)

    So who is Paul Thomas Anderson to you?

    PTA... who makes lengthy movies.

    Do you like his movies?

    I like those I've seen

    What is your favorite movie that he directed?

    Boogie Nights (Rollergirl rulez!... :big grin: )

    "The idea was to be a symbol. editman could be anybody, that was the point."

    Trolls destroyed the Forum

    my DVD/blu-ray List

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    I have seen Magnolia and Boogie Nights....

    I watched Magnolia yesterday, in a bizarre twist of fate, there were so many coincidences and chance encounters in my day yesterday, that it felt so weird to watch a move that was all about chance connections....hence I liked it in the context of my day yesterday...I have it for a week, I will watch it again to see if I like it without all the bizarre happenings going on...

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    Oil!

    I've read that P.T. Anderson's next project will an adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel "Oil!"...called "There Will Be Blood."

    Pretty stoked to see what this is all about since it's a period piece and the first work he's done in a while.

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