Has anyone seen this??
Misnomer of a title, but some interesting or mundane questions depending on how you look at it
anyway, here's another q&a w/pta (http://vimeo.com/918334) (at Arclight again, not my video) this time as a guest speaker for the Harvard-Westlake (high school) film festival (http://www.hw.com/filmfestival/PreviousFestivals/2008Festival/tabid/2152/Default.aspx)
Never really thought of "becoming a member" of it until recently when you guys post one of the pictures I sent to https://twitter.com/#!/cigsandredvines and I felt the need to comment on it.
Now if he'd just confirm the theatre dream sequence...
Anyone who wants to listen to one of the more personal and more entertaining Q&A's should do a 7-day free trial to SiriusXM and listen to PTA's Q&A with the Rotten Tomatoes crew. It was great. It's in their OnDemand section.If I knew how to rip streaming audio, I would do that. If anyone knows how to do that easily, let me know.
Anyone who wants to listen to one of the more personal and more entertaining Q&A's should do a 7-day free trial to SiriusXM and listen to PTA's Q&A with the Rotten Tomatoes crew. It was great. It's in their OnDemand section.If I knew how to rip streaming audio, I would do that. If anyone knows how to do that easily, let me know.
Regardless, we should have a full transcription up on the site later today...
There are a bunch of new interviews up on the site (http://cigsandredvines.blogspot.com/) but I'd like to point you towards this for now wherein PTA lays the smack down on a reporter asking him the Tom Cruise question...I said this on twitter, but I'll say it here aswell, when PTA says he stole the phrase "trying to write War and Peace in a bumper car" from someone but can't remember who, that's a quote from Kubrick!
(skip to 14:50)
There are a bunch of new interviews up on the site (http://cigsandredvines.blogspot.com/) but I'd like to point you towards this for now wherein PTA lays the smack down on a reporter asking him the Tom Cruise question...
(skip to 14:50)
when PTA says he stole the phrase "trying to write War and Peace in a bumper car" from someone but can't remember who, that's a quote from Kubrick!
New shit had come to light man.
Boogie Nights, which instantly established Anderson’s reputation as one of the best filmmakers of his generation alongside Quentin Tarantino and David O Russell.
When I told Anderson I thought his movies were about America, he blanched. “Don’t say that!” he said, looking disgusted. “Don’t put those words in my mouth. It’s nauseating to even think about it that way.”
PTA: I have an interest in cults – everything is a cult, in a way. What’s the difference between a cult and dropping my daughter off at school this morning? It’s a group of people gathered in one place pursuing a likeminded set of ideas and goals.
You don’t call him by his name, Lancaster Dodd?
PTA: No, I call him Master. That is his name.
When I told Anderson I thought his movies were about America, he blanched. “Don’t say that!” he said, looking disgusted. “Don’t put those words in my mouth. It’s nauseating to even think about it that way.”
his best film, go with 'POUND'.
it's a little difficult to find, as far as i know, but worth the search. i don't know, maybe wilder has some info on a release??
Watched the Grimes video. Meh.
Watched the Grimes video. Meh.
I don't understand it's voice. Had to mute. Video was shit. PTA trolling.
If “Oblivion” says anything about our collective psyche at the midway point of a decade already defined by seismic, globe-altering revolutions, it’s that the personal will always be political. The song recounts a specific sexual assault (“One of the most shattering experiences of my life,” Grimes, who was born in Vancouver as Claire Boucher, told SPIN in 2012) by describing the psychic fallout: “And never walk about after dark/ It’s my point of view/ Because someone could break your neck/ Coming up behind you always coming and you’d never have a clue,” she lisps in her high, pinched voice. It’s a dazzling, paralyzing performance, in part because Boucher sounds almost playful, and in part because the skronking behind her—the song’s springy, propulsive synth line was one of 2012’s most unforgettable—indicates something other than victimization. “See you on a dark night,” Boucher repeats.
The song’s video, directed by Emily Kai Bock, features a tiny, pink-haired Grimes lip-syncing “Oblivion” at a McGill football game (and later at a motorcross rally), wearing skeleton gloves and clutching a plastic boom box. There aren’t many women hanging in the stands besides Boucher; one, darting up behind her, swats at the hood of Boucher’s sweatshirt, a vaguely combative gesture that somehow seems more goofy than aggressive. On the field, a squad of taut-bellied cheerleaders, their hair pulled back with candy-colored bows, soar forth and land. Grimes, mouthing the lyrics to “Oblivion,” dances the way people dance when no one is looking: a desexualized, mostly arrhythmic twitching that does not seem to be for the benefit of anyone else at all.
The particular kind of masculinity that gets amplified by organized sporting events—the same feral, drooling aggression Bill Buford made infamous in Among the Thugs, his harrowing account of hooliganism among English soccer fans—would be an easy target for a feminist with a video camera, but Grimes is received warmly by the crowd. In that sense, it is a triumph—of perseverance, if not humanity—and it feels consistent with her mission. The subversion of expectation is a part of Grimes’s founding aesthetic, and she frequently marries more defiant genres like noise and punk with propulsive pop production, outfitting her dissent in studio glimmer. The melody can be so sweet as to feel bubblegum, and when Boucher sings a bit like “I will wait forever”–a line that always jumps out–“Oblivion” starts to seem like a very different kind of lament.
But what “Oblivion” ultimately offers is victory. It’s the sound of one woman turning personal devastation into not just a career-making single, but a lasting anthem of transformation.
I have the full recording too. I can prob upload someplace. I thought filmlinc was gonna do it by now.
Haven't seen the Master Class posted but here are a few excerpts and quotes (I dont believe has been posted).
http://flavorwire.com/481033/10-filmmaking-lessons-from-paul-thomas-anderson/view-all
Back to Inherent Vice. Katherine Waterston gives a breakout turn as Shasta. People after the premiere were saying that her nude scene is this movie’s equivalent of There Will Be Blood’s “I drink your milkshake!”was going to say this was the scene like that, back when someone here asked if there was a "big memorable scene" in iv, but i was worried only i'd think that. so now i'm less worried about that
Good. I think that’s good, right? The sex scene is pretty much how it is in the book. It becomes something that is special and unique because it’s one shot, which is always ideal, particularly if someone is naked and really vulnerable, instead of saying, “You’re gonna have to do this 40 times in five different ways.” That was a good one. Concise, focused, and letting her have opportunities to do a good take. But I like that people are responding to that scene because I think it’s a special one.
he’s on the fucking case; he doesn’t know what the case is, but he’s fucking on it
[/url]Monday is Paul Thomas Anderson day on @WTFpod!
— marc maron (@marcmaron) January 2, 2015
PTA is gonna be on WTF Monday
it was kind of irritating that Maron just blew past Punch-Drunk Love so quickly and got so little out of PTA with regards to that film. I got the sense that Maron wasn't giving that film its proper due (as one of the greatest of all time!) and was talking about it as if it were a minor curiosity in Anderson's filmography.
Foster Wallace as his teacher at Emerson?! That part blew me away. fuck. that is so cool
Anyone know if the C&RV site is going to do a series of interviews for IV with key production players like they did with The Master?Totally possible but I doubt it? I did them for The Master but that film seemed to have a lot less press than this one does and for IV it feels like most of the key dept. heads have already been interviewed someplace else. The only stuff I'd really want to hear from PTA is if there was much other stuff from the book was shot but cut and if he realizes the extent to which his films challenge audiences. But if they do one, I'd read it.
Good, sad interview...
http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/features/articles/paul-thomas-anderson-29054
Bridge of Spies Q&A with Spielberg moderated by PT (http://www.dga.org/Events/2015/Dec2015/BridgeofSpies_QnA_1015.aspx)
PT: What’s happening next?
Adam McKay: I’m talking with Farrell and John C. Reilly about doing a comedy about two guys that go down to defend America’s borders against the immigrants…
I've got so much interview to give, I just don't know where to put it.There was another list about his "favorite" films but I can't find it.
https://www.criterion.com/lists/150628-paul-thomas-anderson-s-favorite-films (https://www.criterion.com/lists/150628-paul-thomas-anderson-s-favorite-films)
This is over two years old, but whatever. And actually, I don't think it's an interview, but a collection of quotes and the movies they reference. There are some standouts that seem to have been omitted, but still, it's nice to peruse.
I remember some of it: 42nd Street, Bad Day Black Rock, The Band Wagon, Baraka, Breaking the Waves, Chaplin’s movies, Dancer in the Dark, Dark Star, Fred Astaire’s movies, I Am Cuba, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, L.A. Confidential, Lost in Translation, Melvin and Howard, Network, Ordinary People, Preston Sturge’s movies, Singin’ in the Rain, Sunrise, Sweet & Lowdown, Swing Shift, They Drive By Night, The Three Colors Trilogy, White Heat, You Can Count On Me
Airplane, The Asphalt Jungle, The Best Days of Our Lives, The Big Sleep, Breakfast with Curtis, Breaking Away, Giant, The Innocents, Mulholland Drive, The Ninth Configuration, Prince of the City, Secrets & Lies, The Son (Dardennes), They Shoot Horses Don’t They?, Three Businessmen, Tunnel Vision, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films, and When the Cat’s Away were mentioned at other points in time
I remember some of it: 42nd Street, Bad Day Black Rock, The Band Wagon, Baraka, Breaking the Waves, Chaplin’s movies, Dancer in the Dark, Dark Star, Fred Astaire’s movies, I Am Cuba, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, L.A. Confidential, Lost in Translation, Melvin and Howard, Network, Ordinary People, Preston Sturge’s movies, Singin’ in the Rain, Sunrise, Sweet & Lowdown, Swing Shift, They Drive By Night, The Three Colors Trilogy, White Heat, You Can Count On Me
Airplane, The Asphalt Jungle, The Best Days of Our Lives, The Big Sleep, Breakfast with Curtis, Breaking Away, Giant, The Innocents, Mulholland Drive, The Ninth Configuration, Prince of the City, Secrets & Lies, The Son (Dardennes), They Shoot Horses Don’t They?, Three Businessmen, Tunnel Vision, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films, and When the Cat’s Away were mentioned at other points in time
Someone should rip them all and upload them to a new account where they won't get deleted.
Can anyone find audio/video or a transcript of the DGA Q&A PTA did with Scorsese for There Will Be Blood in January 2008? Thanks.
Didn't get to see that one in the theatre. Some WTF moments in it that would be fun watching with that sort of crowd, I guess.
Original, unedited press junket interviews with John C. Reilly, Heather Graham, Don Cheadle, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson and Mark Wahlberg from September, 1997
(Runtime: nearly 3 hours)
This is the director's cut. This is the movie I wanted to make.--PTA
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PTA interviewed Jordan Peele for the latest issue of Fangoria.
I remember coming across a screenshot of one of those interviews and posting about it here. It's kind of surreal to see the footage itself. I never thought it would show up, seemed too obscure.
It really highlights the huge differences between PTA's interview style before and after TWBB.
I seem to remember someone on here talking about how PTA showed up to that Charlie Rose table in 2007 or 2008. Rose had him on his back foot during the Magnolia press tour, demanding "WHAT IS THIS MOVIE ABOUT?!" Back then, he rushed to give Rose the one line summary he wanted.
Cut to the 2007 Rose interview and PTA is almost monosyllabic at times. I vaguely remember this hilarious moment where Rose is looking for an answer and PTA is simply like, "I dunno."
Gunda’ is pure cinema. This is a film to take a bath in — it’s stripped to its essential elements, without any interference. It’s what we should all aspire to as filmmakers and audiences — pictures and sound put together to tell a powerful and profound story without rush. It’s jaw dropping images and sound put together with the best ensemble cast and you have something more like a potion than a movie.
So any film he mentions liking is one is "favorite films!!"?
Indiewire is so annoying.
So any film he mentions liking is one is "favorite films!!"?
Indiewire is so annoying.
In fairness, and while Indiewire may be delving into hyperbole, PTA does tend to champion a lot of movies, some of which I'd consider to be straight up bad (Ted).
Remember the John Kransinski anecdote where PTA took him aside at a party and told him thst he shouldn't say that a movie is "bad" because it might jeopardise other movies getting funding? He just doesn't seem to have the brutal honesty of someone like Scorsese in him.
WHYY's "FRESH AIR with Terry Gross" has apparently made their entire archive available online (https://freshairarchive.org/). I have created a playlist (https://freshairarchive.org/playlist/1236) that contains most of the PTA-related content. (7.5 hours of content in this playlist alone.)Thank you! Started listening to the TWBB talk with Paul and Terry. Paul sounds super mannerly and calm lol
https://freshairarchive.org/playlist/1236 (https://freshairarchive.org/playlist/1236)