Where to Stream the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
📖 Full Retelling
The director has spent three decades creating an inimitable style, as seen in films like “Boogie Nights,” “There Will Be Blood,” “Phantom Thread” and more.
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Anderson’s Oscar winner (nominated for 13, winner of six) and most acclaimed picture to date was in the works for decades, first getting into the filmmaker’s head (and under his skin) in the form of the 1990 Pynchon novel “Vineland.” Over the years, that story evolved into Anderson’s tale of Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio, pitch perfect), a burned-out formula revolutionary whose years of paranoia are finally borne out when a twisted military man (Sean Penn) organizes the kidnapping of Bob’s daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti). The Oscar triumph of “Battle” is appropriate; it feels like the culmination of Anderson’s screen work to date, fusing the loosey-goosey friskiness of his early work with the more disciplined aesthetics and towering performances of his middle period.
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