I was "in" as soon as I heard PTA was making another film. The teaser just makes me more anxious to watch it.

I'm not a fan of Joaquin Phoenix, but PTA always draws out great performances from his actors. He can cast a clump of shit and it'll give a strong performance (ie. Adam Sandler).

It's kind of weird to see Phoenix in a real movie again. Good teaser, and I do mean teaser.

I'd say Punch-Drunk Love is the first movie where he stopped directly copying other directors and began to do his own thing, albeit while still influenced by previous filmmakers. There Will Be Blood was a huge leap forward for him, though.

....while he's yet to make a bad film and each films is his own. You're right. BN and Magnolia are very influenced.

PDL to me is very French New Wave.

TWBB for sure. Is all him. Goddamn I love that movie so much.

PDL is very French New Wave, TWBB is very Kubrick. But they both feel like PTA movies.

And he has made a bad film. A terrible film, in fact: Magnolia.

Nonsense, sir.

If this movie is really about what it's rumored to be about, expect a lot of cast and crew members to die under mysterious circumstances over the next year or so.

Just the facts, Jack.

Hard Eight is pretty mediocre too because John C. Reilly was too dopey for the part.

I'm not a huge fan of his pre-PDL output in general, but I reserve a special circle of hell for Magnolia.

Nonsense

Alright, two circles of hell.

Can't wait for this. PT's last movie was better than Citizen Kane so it will be hard to move on from there.

This should be awesome in all its 70 mm glory. Or is it 65 mm?

65mm for the image, the remaining 5 allocated for the soundtrack..

and in regards to the teaser, didn't do a thing for me.

This movie still has something to do with Philip Seymour Hoffman starting a cult, right?

Looks like weird for the sake of weird. Might be good.

Damn, you snuck in a post. I was disagreeing with the comments about O'Reilly and Hard Eight. I agree Magnolia is easily his weakest effort.

I have high hopes for PT's movies because the genius that is Boogie Nights and the experience that was Punch Drunk Love. However, I always realize that they could end up like Hard Eight (boring as fuck) or like Magnolia (long and boring as fuck).

Magnolia is probably one of the few films where I would continue buying it no matter how many special editions were released.

It is quite simply one of my favorite movies of all time. Seen it 14 or 15 times at least, which is a lot for me.


Looking forward to The Master so much. I wish we'd gotten to see more of the main cast in the teaser.

I hate to agree with Supermallet in speaking against PT Anderson but, except for a hilarious performance by Tom Cruise (I swear he either didn't know what movie he was in or simply did not give a fuck), Magnolia is a steaming pile of shit.

I had no idea he shot the whole thing in 65mm/70mm. I'm not sure that there's even a local theatre here that can project, let alone get a 70mm print.

I loved Magnolia when I was in my late teens / early 20's. I haven't watched in in many many years, though. Always hated Boogie Nights. Didn't like Punch-Drunk Love at first, but watched it again last year and appreciated it a lot more. There Will Be Blood was fantastic.

I love PTA's work by and large and would argue that as magnificently directed as There Will Be Blood is, it benefited greatly from a nearly supernatural performance by Daniel Day Lewis. Through him, Daniel Plainview is one of the most fascinating characters that will ever appear in film.

And Joaquin was great in that clip. He's quietly become one of my favorite actors.

They should have just released a clip of Joaquin saying "GABBO! GABBO! GABBO!"

Well, that certainly was an... interesting teaser. But I generally love Anderson's work, so there's no question I'll be seeing this.