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10 films · 23h 29m

Paul Thomas Anderson

Ten films about need, and what people do about it.

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10 films23h 29m
  1. 1996

    Hard Eight

    1h 42m

    A Reno gambling drama, taken off him and re-cut. Philip Baker Hall is superb in it.

  2. 1997

    Boogie Nights

    Essential

    2h 35m

    The porn industry from 1977 to 1984, as a family drama. He was twenty-seven.

  3. 1999

    Magnolia

    Essential

    3h 8m

    Nine intersecting lives over one day in the San Fernando Valley. Three hours, and it earns them.

  4. 2002

    Punch-Drunk Love

    Essential

    1h 35m

    Adam Sandler, played entirely straight. Ninety-five minutes, and unlike anything else he has made.

  5. 2007

    There Will Be Blood

    Essential

    2h 38m

    Daniel Day-Lewis as an oil prospector consuming everything near him. The first fifteen minutes are silent.

  6. 2012

    The Master

    Essential

    2h 18m

    A drifter and the leader of a new religion. Shot in 65mm, and resolves almost nothing.

  7. 2014

    Inherent Vice

    2h 28m

    Pynchon, filmed. Impossible to follow on purpose — go with it or do not start here.

  8. 2017

    Phantom Thread

    Essential

    2h 10m

    A 1950s couturier and the woman who works out how to live with him. Very funny, eventually.

  9. 2021

    Licorice Pizza

    Essential

    2h 13m

    1973 in the Valley again, loose and episodic. His warmest film by a distance.

  10. 2025

    One Battle After Another

    Essential

    2h 42m

    DiCaprio as a burnt-out revolutionary. The biggest and fastest thing he has ever made.