Paul Thomas Anderson
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Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26 1970 in Studio City, California) is an American filmmaker.
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Film style and trademarks
Anderson is perhaps best known for his movies with large ensemble casts and complex, interweaving storylines, namely Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999). He is part of the first generation of "VCR filmmakers"; directors such as Quentin Tarantino, who learned their craft not in film schools, but by viewing thousands of movies on video in their adolescence and gaining a vast knowledge of film technique and culture.
The films of Paul Thomas Anderson typically deal with the significance of familial relationships over time, especially with regard to fathers and their children. Themes concerning divine fate, the serendipitous nature of love, and the role of media in contemporary life are also common. The director stresses the interconnections between his characters as these forces unpredictably, and even chaotically, weave in and out of their fragile lives. Anderson's stylistic trademarks include the frequent use of logistically difficult steadicam-based long takes, such as the opening shot in Boogie Nights (which lasts approximately 3 minutes without a cut), and an aggressively bombastic use of sound and music.
Philip Seymour Hoffman has appeared in all four of Anderson's features. Other actors with multiple appearances in Anderson films include Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Luis Guzmán, Ricky Jay, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Melora Walters and the late Robert Ridgely. His three big-budget films (after Hard Eight) were headlined by Burt Reynolds, Tom Cruise and Adam Sandler, respectively.
Anderson's next film, There Will Be Blood, is an adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel Oil!. The novel is set during the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California.
Personal life
A New York University dropout, Anderson is the son of voice actor Ernie Anderson, best remembered as the voice of the American Broadcasting Company and as Cleveland-area horror host Ghoulardi, after whom Paul's production company, Ghoulardi Films, is named.
Paul and Saturday Night Live cast member Maya Rudolph are in a relationship and had a daughter, Pearl Bailey Anderson, on October 15, 2005.[1] In the past, he has also been romantically linked to singer Fiona Apple, who appears with him in the making-of video diary on the Magnolia DVD.
Filmography (as writer and director)
- Hard Eight (also known as Sydney) (1996)
- Boogie Nights (1997)
- Magnolia (1999)
- Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
- There Will Be Blood (in production- 2006)
External links
- cigarettes and red vines - the p.t. anderson web resource
- {{{2|{{{name|Paul Thomas Anderson}}}}}} at The Internet Movie Database
- Punch Drunk Love: The Budding of an Auteur by Cubie Kingda:Paul Thomas Anderson
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