Other actors/directors/etc. who mention PTA

Started by edison, January 18, 2008, 08:47:02 PM

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Quote from: wilberfan on March 06, 2021, 12:51:25 AM
Costume Designer Mark Bridges Talks Broadway Beginnings, 'News Of The World' & The Time He Won A Jet Ski At The Oscars

QuoteOne of his first big breaks was when he was hired for Hard Eight by a 25-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson. "[We] had very little money for Hard Eight, but had a good time making it. It was a lot of fun. We lived at the casino that we shot at. Of course, we didn't have much money, but it was shot in Reno, and at the time, Reno was really the land of thrift stores," Bridges notes. "So, it was perfect. I needed clothes for no money, and they had all the resources right there."

In his relationship with the auteur, Bridges found longevity. In the decades since Hard Eight, the pair have reteamed on seven other acclaimed features—including Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread. And recently, they joined forces once again on a highly anticipated film that has yet to be titled, starring Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie and Cooper Hoffman. "It's 25 years we've been working together," Bridges marvels, "so that's exciting that we're still going at this point. Paul and I work the way that we have always worked."

I watched "Blow" just because Mark Bridges did the costumes for it!

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wilberfan

Screen grab from the latest Almodovar (short?)  The Human Voice.


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Mark Kermode's favourite movie soundtracks of all time

QuoteThis ability for music to capture the atmosphere of a time and place in cinema was a factor that he eulogised once again in There Will Be Blood. For the Paul Thomas Anderson story of oilmen clashing and cultist religions, he declared: "I remember watching the film and about 20-30 minutes in thinking, 'I'm not distinguishing between the sound effects and the music.' It all sounded like all the sound was coming out of the landscape, that is the highest compliment."

For There Will Be Blood, Johnny Greenwood, who scored the film, even declared that Anderson "even cut some of the film to the music which is so the wrong way round." The result is a hand in glove marriage of sound and vision that Kermode found enthralling and perfectly simpatico in equal measure.

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ND/NF Review: Moon, 66 Questions is a Touching Story of Father-Daughter Healing, With Dance and Tarot

Quote...so many sequences in this film simply observe her engaging in mundane home-care tasks (cleaning, tidying, and dressing) with an arm's length, yet-caring gaze evoking Chantal Akerman. (The late filmmaker is thanked by Lentzou as an inspiration in the end credits, along with––in a nice surprise––Paul Thomas Anderson, who provided script help as the film passed through various international development labs.)

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'Underground Railroad': Barry Jenkins Was Influenced By Paul Thomas Anderson, Wong Kar-Wai, Claire Denis & More For His Amazon Series

QuoteSpeaking to Sight & Sound, Barry Jenkins gave a list of filmmakers that inspired him during very specific moments in his 10-episode Amazon series, "The Underground Railroad." In the piece, the author of the novel that inspired the series, Colson Whitehead, said that he was sold on Jenkins as the right guy to adapt the story when the filmmaker mentioned references like Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" and "The Master."

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Fun fact: I gave Barry Jenkins a blu-ray of The Master in exchange for helping swap a ticket to the NYFF screening of Moonlight.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.


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Podcast interview with Este and Alana Haim.  (PTA-discussion begins at 46:00 mark.)

Audio & Transcript

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kingfan011

I remember hearing a story that Cheadle was going to walk off the set the first day because he thought Anderson was crazy and Phillip Bake Hall talked him back. I can't remember where I heard this though.

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first they discuss TWBB. Plainview isn't loveless he's lonely, and his loneliness decays his spirit. plus he's wrapped up in success, and he puts everything into business instead of human connection. then they discuss The Master and the hosts compare it to Brokeback Mountain. Louis CK says it's not about homoeroticism but confusion, and they're insane. it's not an allegory it's just a delightful concept

I skipped out then but it's rather standard PTA gushing