10 films · 23h 29m
Paul Thomas Anderson
Ten films about need, and what people do about it.
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- 1996
Hard Eight
1h 42m
A Reno gambling drama, taken off him and re-cut. Philip Baker Hall is superb in it.
- 1997
Boogie Nights
Essential2h 35m
The porn industry from 1977 to 1984, as a family drama. He was twenty-seven.
- 1999
Magnolia
Essential3h 8m
Nine intersecting lives over one day in the San Fernando Valley. Three hours, and it earns them.
- 2002
Punch-Drunk Love
Essential1h 35m
Adam Sandler, played entirely straight. Ninety-five minutes, and unlike anything else he has made.
- 2007
There Will Be Blood
Essential2h 38m
Daniel Day-Lewis as an oil prospector consuming everything near him. The first fifteen minutes are silent.
- 2012
The Master
Essential2h 18m
A drifter and the leader of a new religion. Shot in 65mm, and resolves almost nothing.
- 2014
Inherent Vice
2h 28m
Pynchon, filmed. Impossible to follow on purpose — go with it or do not start here.
- 2017
Phantom Thread
Essential2h 10m
A 1950s couturier and the woman who works out how to live with him. Very funny, eventually.
- 2021
Licorice Pizza
Essential2h 13m
1973 in the Valley again, loose and episodic. His warmest film by a distance.
- 2025
One Battle After Another
Essential2h 42m
DiCaprio as a burnt-out revolutionary. The biggest and fastest thing he has ever made.