...according to ptanderson.com, which says its source is quite reliable, it looks like Paul will be adapting the Upton Sinclair novel...Oil!
And to top it off, looks like Daniel Day-Lewis is gonna star.
Sign me up, sign me up, sign me up! Where can I get my ticket?
Full Version: There Will Be Blood
QUOTE(wyoming @ Apr 5 2005, 03:12 PM)
...according to ptanderson.com, which says its source is quite reliable, it looks like Paul will be adapting the Upton Sinclair novel...Oil!
And to top it off, looks like Daniel Day-Lewis is gonna star.
Sign me up, sign me up, sign me up! Where can I get my ticket?
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And to top it off, looks like Daniel Day-Lewis is gonna star.
Sign me up, sign me up, sign me up! Where can I get my ticket?
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Yeah I read that on Jeffrey Overstreet's blo a few days back. How good is that? Anderson and Day Lewis
Matt
Favorite actor. Favorite director.
YES!
YES!
I don't know what to think of PTA doing a period piece. I guess I find it rather out of character, to date anyway. He hasn't done anything like this in the past -- I know nothing of the source material, is the book PTA friendly?
-s.
-s.
stef wrote:
: I don't know what to think of PTA doing a period piece.
Boogie Nights was a period piece.
: I don't know what to think of PTA doing a period piece.
Boogie Nights was a period piece.
Well, OK, if you want to get technical, yeah you're right... But this oil film is set in the twenties. And 70s porn life isn't really all that hard to pull off anyway, right? These days you can buy the outfits at Old Navy...
-s.
-s.
Have you seen the plot description? Whooo-eee. Sounds loaded.
Yeah - it sounds good. Can't wait
Matt
Matt
Weren't some of the opening scenes of Magnolia kinda period piece? Three men beat up some other guy... outside of the boy getting shot by his mother while attempting suicide, I can't remember the other clips htat introduced the film.
[quote name='wyoming' date='Apr 5 2005, 10:12 AM' post='63093']
...according to ptanderson.com,
Is there even a PT Anderson website? I tried ptanderson.com and it just takes me to a cigarette shop.
Anybody knoew any other sites about Anderson?
...according to ptanderson.com,
Is there even a PT Anderson website? I tried ptanderson.com and it just takes me to a cigarette shop.
Anybody knoew any other sites about Anderson?
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I don't know what to think of PTA doing a period piece. I guess I find it rather out of character, to date anyway. He hasn't done anything like this in the past -- I know nothing of the source material, is the book PTA friendly?
-s.
That is an interesting question. I didn't think at first glimpse that Punch Drunk Love was "PTA friendly material," but he seemed to demonstrate the ability in that film to move beyond some of his own visual and narrative habits with ease. The guy's got chops.
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[quote name='wyoming' date='Apr 5 2005, 10:12 AM' post='63093']
...according to ptanderson.com,
Is there even a PT Anderson website? I tried ptanderson.com and it just takes me to a cigarette shop.
Anybody knoew any other sites about Anderson?
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There use to be a PT Anderson fan site called "Cigarettes and Coffee" or "Coffee and Cigarettes", but apparently it's been shut down. It was actually how I discovered Arts and Faith, when Magnolia was voted one of the most spiritually significant films.
[quote name='wyoming' date='Apr 5 2005, 10:12 AM' post='63093']
...according to ptanderson.com,
Is there even a PT Anderson website? I tried ptanderson.com and it just takes me to a cigarette shop.
Anybody knoew any other sites about Anderson?
[/quote]
There use to be a PT Anderson fan site called "Cigarettes and Coffee" or "Coffee and Cigarettes", but apparently it's been shut down. It was actually how I discovered Arts and Faith, when Magnolia was voted one of the most spiritually significant films.
Paul Dano (The King, Little Miss Sunshine) joins the cast as "a gifted, charismatic young preacher who captivates churchgoers."
The first look at Day-Lewis:
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There use to be a PT Anderson fan site called "Cigarettes and Coffee" or "Coffee and Cigarettes", but apparently it's been shut down. It was actually how I discovered Arts and Faith, when Magnolia was voted one of the most spiritually significant films.
Here it is: Cigarettes and Red Vines
Wave your mouse (or trackball or whatever you've got) around the screen until "enter" appears. It's a very minimalist setup.
That's Daniel Day-Lewis?! Wow.
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That's Daniel Day-Lewis?! Wow.
That's what I said. I'm just excited that Anderson is doing a period piece. Plus, I love the title. I'm seriously giddy about this movie, maybe more than anything else coming out in the near future.
I THOUGHT there was something odd about that photo.
The reason it doesn't look quite like Daniel Day-Lewis is that it ISN'T Daniel Day-Lewis.
Ain't It Cool News just posted a note about the mistake, and who that fellow really is.
Don't feel bad... even People Magazine is confusing the two.
The reason it doesn't look quite like Daniel Day-Lewis is that it ISN'T Daniel Day-Lewis.
Ain't It Cool News just posted a note about the mistake, and who that fellow really is.
Don't feel bad... even People Magazine is confusing the two.
I posted this same story on the No Country For Old Men thread, but since half the article dealt with Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, I decided to place it here as well.
Hollywood Stampedes a Texas Town, and Tranquillity Rides Into the Sunset
Hollywood Stampedes a Texas Town, and Tranquillity Rides Into the Sunset
Whoa, since when can we embed YouTubes in here?
Do you mean since when is it POSSIBLE?
Or since when are we PERMITTED?
Because if we're not permitted, maybe I need a refresher on the rules. I wasn't aware...
Anyway, about that trailer...
Does it strike anyone as... for lack of a better term... Malick-ian? (Malick-esque? Malickinous? Malickalicious?)
Or since when are we PERMITTED?
Because if we're not permitted, maybe I need a refresher on the rules. I wasn't aware...
Anyway, about that trailer...
Does it strike anyone as... for lack of a better term... Malick-ian? (Malick-esque? Malickinous? Malickalicious?)
Jeffrey Overstreet wrote:
: Do you mean since when is it POSSIBLE?
Possible, yeah. I thought formatting was impossible unless it was in square brackets -- but this is in the old-fashioned pointy brackets.
Gadzooks, to think of all the videos I would have posted here by now if I had known this was do-able ...
: Do you mean since when is it POSSIBLE?
Possible, yeah. I thought formatting was impossible unless it was in square brackets -- but this is in the old-fashioned pointy brackets.
Gadzooks, to think of all the videos I would have posted here by now if I had known this was do-able ...
QUOTE (Jeffrey Overstreet @ Jun 16 2007, 04:18 PM) 
Does it strike anyone as... for lack of a better term... Malick-ian? (Malick-esque? Malickinous? Malickalicious?)
Definitely. That wide shot of oil workers running toward a raging fire recalls the locust scene in Days of Heaven. Looks compelling.
Awesome.
A new trailer [has been removed, consarn it.]
Hmmm.
First impressions:
This trailer makes the film seem grim and heavy-handed in a rather stilted sort of way. I mean, I knew it was going to be grim. But Lewis's line delivery here is, well, begging to be parodied.
But it's still far too early to draw any conclusions.
This is going to be quite a role for Paul Dano.
Hmmm.
First impressions:
This trailer makes the film seem grim and heavy-handed in a rather stilted sort of way. I mean, I knew it was going to be grim. But Lewis's line delivery here is, well, begging to be parodied.
But it's still far too early to draw any conclusions.
This is going to be quite a role for Paul Dano.
(that video has been removed)
The first review (?):
Certain to be rewarded with year-end accolades, Anderson's film is a true American saga - one that rivals "Giant" and "Citizen Kane" in our popular lore as origin stories about how we came to be the people we are. . . .
Daniel Day-Lewis is at his brilliant best as the story's Daniel Plainview, a man whose humanity diminishes as his fortunes increase. Never an exemplar of human kindness, Plainview becomes truly monstrous by film's end. Spanning three decades from 1898 to 1927, the approximately two hour and 40-minute film begins and ends with Plainview as a solitary figure. In fact, the first 15 minutes pass without any dialogue. Community is merely a useful tool for getting what Plainview wants and needs. Another constant nuisance is religion and false piety, represented by the character, Eli Sunday, played by Paul Dano. That the film stars none of the director's recurring repertory of actors is another intriguing element that lends a fresh sense to the undertaking.
Essential to the success of the movie is the original score by Jonny Greenwood, the Radiohead guitarist and BBC composer in residence. In addition to some uniquely haunting orchestral arrangements, there's this insistent string motif that sounds like the buzzing of an insect inside one's head, a sound that grows louder and more unavoidably distressing whenever soulless events are about to occur. Greenwood's astonishing score is sure to be one of the most remarked-on aspects of the movie. . . .
JONNY GREENWOOD DID THE SOUNDTRACK??!!
Wow.
This is the kind of enthusiastic response I've hoped Anderson would receive for his underrated work in Punch-drunk Love, so to see it happening for something new has me on the edge of my seat. I dream about director/actor pairings like this.
Wow.
This is the kind of enthusiastic response I've hoped Anderson would receive for his underrated work in Punch-drunk Love, so to see it happening for something new has me on the edge of my seat. I dream about director/actor pairings like this.
I wonder how involved Jon Brion was with the score, if he was involved at all. I'm excited for this movie for a number of reasons, one of them being how much of a departure it actually is for Anderson: it's not set in contemporary society, his usual stock company is absent, and long-time composer Brion seems to be missing too. This could be a breath of fresh air (though Anderson really didn't need one).
Another review! Wow!
www.cinematical.com/2007/09/28/fantastic-fest-review-there-will-be-blood/
www.cinematical.com/2007/09/28/fantastic-fest-review-there-will-be-blood/
Karina @ Spout Blog rounds up some reviews.
QUOTE (Jeffrey Overstreet @ Nov 6 2007, 04:56 PM)
Wow, that's one heck of a review...
David Poland's review is also interesting. I am both fearful of and tremendously anticipating this film.
Lou Lumenick:
D-Day [aka Daniel Day-Lewis] is also quite funny in a scene where a young preacher (Paul Dano of "Little Miss Sunshine,'' who will likely get nominated in support for a dual role) blackmails him into confessing his sins. While this hugely ambitious project invites comparisons with "Citizen Kane'' and "Giant'' and is dazzling in many ways, "There Will Be Blood'' isn't quite the shoo-in for a Best Picture nomination it looked like from early reviews, though it will probably be embraced by many critics. For starters, it's so dark it makes the grim "No Country For Old Men'' look positively audience-friendly.
Seeing it today!!
There have been critics' screenings all over the place now. Anybody here seen it yet? I know CT's Brandon Fibbs has....
There have been critics' screenings all over the place now. Anybody here seen it yet? I know CT's Brandon Fibbs has....
I've seen it, Jeffrey, but I'll sit on my thoughts for a little while longer. Can't wait for the discussion on this one.
Saw it a couple weeks ago. It's been maddening wondering whether to observe embargoes etc. when all the big-name film bloggers have been talking about it for weeks, now.
It opens in Nashville on Jan. 18. I'm really looking forward to it.
There is no emoticon to represent my feeling about this movie. It would have to be some combination of these...
Watching this movie, I kept thinking of a handful of other classics: 2001, The Shining, Raging Bull, and especially Days of Heaven. For so many reasons -- mostly related to the metaphor-heavy style of storytelling, and the way in which the environments speak as eloquently as the characters -- Malick's recently restored masterpiece kept coming to mind, especially when fire erupts on the screen.
So I found this interesting, from The House Next Door:
So I found this interesting, from The House Next Door:
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Looking at the delicious palate and the Southwestern landscape of There Will Be Blood, one might think of Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, but Anderson’s doom is hardly lush, if grand. If the two films share anything, it would be that their similar elision of plot, per se, brings affect to the fore and amplifies the different films’ respective resonances. This is to say, it’s a superficial, fruitless comparison — unless we pay attention to how the differences between the two films, and their approaches, might illuminate the current work at hand. Thus: We do not encounter an Eden to be spoiled but a harsh land already tainted, always ravaged. The earth does not yield grains but oil, a dead and combustible liquid. The goal is not to harvest (wheat, people, beauty) but to accumulate (goods, people, money). There Will Be Blood would be similar to Days of Heaven only if you replaced the sunburnt fields for baked earth, kept the camera rooted to dolly tracks and tripods, eschewed the voice-over to favor silence amidst a baroque score, eliminated the love triangle to foreground familial bonds, shifted the narrative focus to the Sam Shepard magnate exclusively, lent his work derricks in lieu of tractors, characterized him like Nicholson’s self-abnegating monster Jack Torrance in The Shining, and cast the ever-brooding and always-simmering Daniel Day-Lewis in that lead role. The lead role here is Daniel Plainview, and his menacing drive through this film is perhaps nothing more than an obtuse march towards death, a grave finale underground.
Haven't read any reviews yet, but I guess all embargoes are lifted now, so... Two things:
One, I love the opening sequence, the silences and sounds, and I was SOLD on this movie during the shot in which the baby strokes Daniel Day-Lewis's moustache on the train. My goodness. What a tender moment. And what an ominous moment, not unlike the scene in The Godfather Part II where Vito tells young Michael that he loves him very much (and he says this in a flashback that occurs long, long after we have seen several members of the Corleone family killed, some at Michael's orders, because of the things that Vito put in motion before Michael was born).
Two, when Day-Lewis blows up at those guys at the negotiating table about halfway through the film, it is the first inkling that there might be something murderous in him, and it comes -- as far as I can tell, at any rate -- from out of NOWHERE. I wonder if a second viewing would expose even more, subtler hints of that earlier in the film.
One, I love the opening sequence, the silences and sounds, and I was SOLD on this movie during the shot in which the baby strokes Daniel Day-Lewis's moustache on the train. My goodness. What a tender moment. And what an ominous moment, not unlike the scene in The Godfather Part II where Vito tells young Michael that he loves him very much (and he says this in a flashback that occurs long, long after we have seen several members of the Corleone family killed, some at Michael's orders, because of the things that Vito put in motion before Michael was born).
Two, when Day-Lewis blows up at those guys at the negotiating table about halfway through the film, it is the first inkling that there might be something murderous in him, and it comes -- as far as I can tell, at any rate -- from out of NOWHERE. I wonder if a second viewing would expose even more, subtler hints of that earlier in the film.
Currently the top story at Slate:
Especially as awards season approaches, There Will Be Blood is sure to be compared with No Country for Old Men, another epic study of male rivalry and violence that was filmed near Marfa, Texas. But to me, There Will Be Blood is the greater film by far. It offers a persuasive critique of the nihilism that the Coen brothers' film simply (if effectively) re-enacts. For a story that's all about the harnessing of fateful chthonic forces, Paul Thomas Anderson has dug deeper than ever before, and struck black gold.
And Lim on Anderson:
We may not be living in a golden age of American movies, but a new New Hollywood of sorts has emerged—a cluster of adventurous directors in their 30s and 40s who have figured out how to get personal films made with Hollywood or Indiewood money: Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, Todd Haynes, Sofia Coppola, Alexander Payne. Many of them have a specialty. Fincher is a visual virtuoso, Linklater a verbal stylist. Payne is good with character, Coppola with moods and music. Tarantino has the encyclopedic geek smarts, Soderbergh the taste for reinvention. With Paul Thomas Anderson, all of the above apply. His thing is that he can do it all.
Especially as awards season approaches, There Will Be Blood is sure to be compared with No Country for Old Men, another epic study of male rivalry and violence that was filmed near Marfa, Texas. But to me, There Will Be Blood is the greater film by far. It offers a persuasive critique of the nihilism that the Coen brothers' film simply (if effectively) re-enacts. For a story that's all about the harnessing of fateful chthonic forces, Paul Thomas Anderson has dug deeper than ever before, and struck black gold.
And Lim on Anderson:
We may not be living in a golden age of American movies, but a new New Hollywood of sorts has emerged—a cluster of adventurous directors in their 30s and 40s who have figured out how to get personal films made with Hollywood or Indiewood money: Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, Todd Haynes, Sofia Coppola, Alexander Payne. Many of them have a specialty. Fincher is a visual virtuoso, Linklater a verbal stylist. Payne is good with character, Coppola with moods and music. Tarantino has the encyclopedic geek smarts, Soderbergh the taste for reinvention. With Paul Thomas Anderson, all of the above apply. His thing is that he can do it all.
I may as well say it flat-out, since it's obvious from my review: This is my favorite film of the year... by such an enormous margin that I feel like I should just say it fills out the top 5 spots on my list. I haven't been so transported by a movie since The New World.
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