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Paul Thomas Anderson was an American film director who participated in many careers before making his mark with numerous allegedly artistic ventures. Paul Thomas Anderson was merely his show name, since he thought the initials P.T. suited his ego, as they were comparable to famous showman, P.T. Barnum. Anderson's real name was Jack Partridge. He was born to Earl and Lily Partridge on August 2nd, 1970 in the San Fernando Valley of California, but he liked to be thought of as being birthed by the land itself.
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While Wahlberg is already committed to working with BOOGIE NIGHTS director Paul Thomas Anderson again, another Anderson is on his "to work with" wish list – director Wes Anderson of RUSHMORE fame. Wahlberg is ... scheduled to work with directors Russell and Gray again in the upcoming year. And there’s no doubt in his mind that if Burton is attached he will be working with the director again on at least one APES sequel.
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Fulfilling the promise of both Boogie Nights and Hard Eight, Paul Thomas Anderson has created a third movie that is equally compelling and elusive. Magnolia can best be described as a story about family relationships and bonds that have been broken and must to be mended in one day.
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In 1997, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson (who now goes by the more cryptical PT Anderson) surprised the world with his stunningly well-made sophomore effort, Boogie Nights. Focusing on the world of 1970's porn, Anderson managed to pull off a poignant human touch in this seedy, oft depressing world of skin. The cast of Boogie Nights was filled with great character and independent actors including Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Chicago native, John C. Reilly. A favorite actor of Anderson's (Reilly ... appeared in the director's first film, Hard Eight and third film, Magnolia), Reilly spent his formative years growing up in an Irish neighborhood on the city's southside. After high school, Reilly went to DePaul University's School of Drama at the Goodman Theater, where he ultimately graduated in 1987.
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Having collected a large fortune by selling his company, Paul Thomas Anderson took a vacation to Hawaii that would change his life. On a plane ride there he found himself sitting next to none other than Samuel L. Jackson. Anderson explained to Jackson that ever since he was a little boy he had dreamed of filming a remake of Psycho, his favourite Gus Van Sant film, and he thought that Jackson would be perfect for Norman Bates. Sadly, Alfred Hitchcock was already in the process of filming a remake. Jackson ... agreed to be filmed by Anderson for one hour making random profane comments. Anderson built his first film, Hard Eight, around these comments and spliced the footage of Jackson into it.
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s impressive visual virtuosity is not limited to his feature films. At first glance, The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), a 30-minute short film directed by a teenage Anderson, is a collection of interviews conducted after the death of the titular central character. In what could have been a modernist set-up for a mock documentary, Anderson pauses during the climax to provide a visually significant event: in a take that lasts 70 seconds (2), Paul Thomas Anderson’s camera tracks forwards, sideways and backwards around a pornographic film crew in prayer. It is a take filled with black humour and contradiction: having asked the Lord’s blessing that Dirk Diggler (Michael Stein) should perform without premature ejaculation, the take ends when Diggler has overdosed in the bathroom.
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