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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Find Your Magali - February 18, 2024, 06:44:09 PM
There sure seem to be a lot of car chases/driving scenes
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by jzakko - February 18, 2024, 04:48:55 PM
Wow that's exciting to see!

the 500T and 1 stop push might be a clue he's going for a rougher texture like on IV and PT, love seeing the Leica glass, the 1.85 ratio was confirmed in recent BTS footage, my favorite morsels that get leaked are all the little hints to how it will look.
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by max from fearless - February 18, 2024, 02:05:28 PM


Michael Bauman on camera. Let's go!!!
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This Year In Film / Re: Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthi...
Last post by WorldForgot - February 18, 2024, 09:46:02 AM
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by wilberfan - February 17, 2024, 06:50:35 PM
Hey, that makes ME fringe!!  That's a cool thing to be, right?  8-) 
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by WorldForgot - February 17, 2024, 05:44:24 PM
That's fucking hilarious
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Find Your Magali - February 17, 2024, 05:21:04 PM
I love this sentence on Vineland's (the novel) Wikipedia page:

Paul Thomas Anderson has spoken many times of his love for, and desire to adapt, the novel. As of February 2024, it is heavily rumored and believed only on the fringes to be true that he has finally begun filming this adaptation, with first time collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio in the role of Zoyd Wheeler.
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This Year In Film / Re: Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthi...
Last post by WorldForgot - February 17, 2024, 12:23:07 PM
On release I think the response to this movie around people I was talking to was divided. Either they felt it was too 'feminism 101' or they loved that it was unabashaedly 'itself' - unlike Saltburn which sort of goes through the motions of other thrillers within its genre. This movie's ear for dialogue is too playful for me to berate its plotting. One could argue it's facile - but I think the easier point of entry for critique would be simple: Yorgos has made this movie before, and with more complications, in Dogtooth. But I don't fault it for being its own ludicrous fable.

Thing is, we all ought to be as voracious and curious as Bella. So whatever the trappings of this script's trajectory, I think there's worth in its notion of 'pursuit' and 'awe' and compassion. Taking compassion into account, not every movie has to be entirely for me. And when I think of the thrill this movie's lewd-introduction to intellectualism will be for high school film enthusiasts, I'm filled with gladness.

Super cool chapter cards and sets. Makes me wish we could get a movie that looks like William and Catherine Blake's artwork. Production Design and Costuming awards are going to be a hard battle between this, Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Killers of the Flower Moon. Drop your other Prod Design hopefules in the comments if I missed one. hehe.
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Scrooby - February 14, 2024, 11:10:47 AM
Quote from: Find Your Magali on February 14, 2024, 09:17:06 AMWhatever the genre mashup, whatever the tone, whatever the film stock, whatever amount of people running appears in the movie, I am confident that PTA moved Vineland's setting from the 1980s to the present because he has something meaningful to say about the 2020s.

Agreed. On 30 Jan Scroob remarked :

Also, many Elizabethan revenge tragedies have a social element to them; that is to say, the genre was used to comment on the dystopic conditions of the time.
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Find Your Magali - February 14, 2024, 09:17:06 AM
Whatever the genre mashup, whatever the tone, whatever the film stock, whatever amount of people running appears in the movie, I am confident that PTA moved Vineland's setting from the 1980s to the present because he has something meaningful to say about the 2020s.