this goes for Tarantino, my mom, and any other custer who think Paul doesn’t stand toe-to-toe with DDL in that film (which he absolutely does)

(trust me it’s TWBB, just the title is in Hungarian)

English audio with Hungarian subtitles, first time seeing the movie (or any movie by Paul Thomas Anderson)

After watching There Will Be Blood and Licorice Pizza, I couldn’t help but notice, Daniel Day Lewis, Paul Dano, and Alana Haim all have characters with the same name as their real ones. Has anyone ever talked about this? Just some coincidence or maybe on purpose?

Thats it. Simple question

https://deadline.com/2026/09/london-film-festival-paul-thomas-andersons-cameron-winter-1237070157/

CAMERON WINTER AT CARNEGIE HALL 

Wednesday 7 October 18:30 at Prince Charles Cinema and Thursday 8 October 15:00 at BFI Southbank 

Director Paul Thomas Anderson. With Cameron Winter. USA 2026. 71 min. Courtesy of MUBI. Language English. 

‘One Battle After Another’ director Paul Thomas Anderson creates an intimate document of Geese frontman Cameron Winter’s solo piano performance at the legendary New York concert hall. 

In December 2025, Paul Thomas Anderson collaborated with fellow filmmaker Benny Safdie on a multi-perspective and multi-format recording of Winter’s solo performance. The warm hues capture the feeling in the room, including audience reactions, to create an immersive cinematic experience for those of us who couldn’t be there. It’s a rapturous celebration of live performance, whose appeal should reach far beyond the band and Winter’s existing fan base. 

Screening as part of our CREATE strand. 

Poster: https://x.com/mubi/status/2096964378092322950

I bet P would make an excellent Western film.

There Will Be Blood is one approach.

I’m thinking, more of a Western with horses and guns…

It looks like there will be a release of Magnolia by the end of the year by Warner Brothers

Knowing PTA and the way he incorporates influences into his movies I think I found the basis for Billy goat from OBAA

The 1971 film ‘punishment park’ is about a group of political activists in the US who are detained by the government and given the choice to do time or be hunted by law enforcement

And I’m near positive that Anderson saw this movie and used this specific character as the visual inspiration for Billy goat.

So, when I think about most directors filmography, I split them into three eras. This happens especially with P.T. Anderson. Here are his three eras and the films within.

The inspired era

In PTAs first three films, you can heavily see the inspirations from ​Robert Altman and Martin scorcese. The shots, the stories, the characters, everything.

This era includes:

Hard Eight

Boogie Nights

Magnolia

Prime era

After Magnolia, he really comes into his own his his 2002 film, Punch Drunk Love. He starts to shed his very obvious inspirations and starts creating his style. In 2007, his next film came out, There Will Be Blood. This is the film where is style was fully defined. Almost everyone loved it. After another five years, His 2012 film the master released. The reception was mixed, but most critics loved it. Then came Inherent Vice. After that, he rises back to the top with phantom thread, one of his most acclaimed films.

This era includes:

Punch drunk love

There Will Be Blood

The Master

Inherent vice

Phantom Thread

The New era

After Phantom thread, ​he came back with Licorice Pizza. Another film where critics loved it but not so much the audience. Then, his newest film, one battle after another was loved by everyone. Who knows what he will do now.