Since his debut film “Thief” hit theaters in 1981, Michael Mann has enjoyed a reputation as one of the best working directors we have in America. Across masterfully mounted films like “Heat,” “Collateral,” and “Manhunter,” he’s also earned a somewhat unusual place in the filmmaking pantheon. He’s become somewhat of a household name, his films generally […]
Continue readingGuillermo del Toro doesn’t hold back about his love for his favorite movies. If you’ve spent any time on his Twitter feed over the years, you’ve likely seen him praise Stanley Donen’s use of the color red throughout the late director’s body of work, and hail everything from William Wellman’s 1931 film “Other Men’s Women” […]
Continue readingVicky Krieps is no ordinary actress. Paul Thomas Anderson knew that when he hired her to stand up to Daniel Day-Lewis in 2017’s “Phantom Thread.” After that breakout role, the Luxembourg-born actress was inundated with Hollywood offers. She chose to keep herself grounded with her German husband and two children (now 8 and 12) in […]
Continue readingChristopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has proven to be not just a massive financial success, but also as a new touchstone for the future of “the theatrical experience” for filmmakers across the world, and it now has two big-name supporters in the form of Denis Villeneuve and Paul Thomas Anderson. After a first viewing of the film, […]
Continue readingPaul Thomas Anderson is praising Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” for bringing the film theatrical experience, well, back to theaters.Anderson told AP News that the success of “Oppenheimer,” particularly on 70mm formats, is “healing” the theatergoing experience for audiences who’ve grown accustomed to digital not only through movies but also television. Nolan’s film follows J. Robert Oppenheimer […]
Continue readingDenis Villeneuve and Paul Thomas Anderson marveled at Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” crossing the $900 million mark at the worldwide box office, which makes the Universal Pictures release the highest-grossing biopic in history. In an interview with the Associated Press, Villeneuve said he knew “Oppenheimer” was a “masterpiece” on first viewing, but he never thought it […]
Continue readingVicky Krieps, best performance prize winner in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard for “Corsage,” will star as Sophie Toscan du Plantier in six time-Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan and David Merriman’s “Re-creation,” which is being presented in the Venice Gap-Financing Market.The docu-drama, which centers on the brutal murder in 1996 in Ireland of French film and TV […]
Continue reading“The Silence of the Lambs” producer Gary Goetzman has been a major player in Hollywood for the last four decades (especially after he followed his Best Picture win by co-founding Playtone with Tom Hanks in 1998), but many in and around the film industry were unfamiliar with his story until Paul Thomas Anderson made a […]
Continue readingIt’s a rarity in Hollywood that a director will be honest about borrowing stylistic devices from another filmmaker. But unlike most in the business, Paul Thomas Anderson and Robert Altman had a uniquely different kind of relationship. And when Anderson came out and admitted that he had been “ripping off Altman for years” it was […]
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