Paul Thomas Anderson Profile – Episode #18 (December 18th, 2014)

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🗓️ 18 December 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Popcorn Talk proudly presents Profiles with Malone and Mantz! In this vodcast series hosts Alicia Malone and Scott "Movie" Mantz break down and focus on some of the most prolific Hollywood directors, writers and actors in the entertainment industry - past & present. This episode of PROFILES is all about the work of stylish filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. Anderson was born in 1970. He was one of the first of the "video store" generation of film-makers. His father was the first man on his block to own a V.C.R., and from a very early age Anderson had an infinite number of titles available to him. While film-makers like Spielberg cut their teeth making high-8 films, Anderson cut his teeth shooting films on video and editing them from V.C.R. to V.C.R. Part of Anderson's artistic D.N.A. comes from his father, who hosted a late night horror show in Cleveland. His father knew a number of oddball celebrities such as Robert Ridgely, an actor who often appeared in Mel Brooks' films and would la Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Popcorn Talk Network for the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news and interviews, press one.
0:09.7	Popcorn Talk,, the online broadcast network for movie talk talk.
0:27.6	Alicia Malone with Scott Moviemance and the Schmo's Know.
0:30.6	This is Profile.
0:32.1	In-depth spotlights on the greatest filmmakers and artists in motion picture history.
0:37.2	Hello, Profilers!
0:40.1	And live from Hollywood, Encino.
0:45.1	It is episode 18 of profiles.
0:47.9	Our last profiles of 2014.
0:51.1	That's why we're wearing Christmas sweaters.
0:53.1	We are wearing our Christmas sweaters. Seasons,
0:55.7	greetings to profilers from around the world. We are going out this year, going out the year
1:02.1	with a very, very special show. Big bang. Big bang. Paul Thomas Anderson. And what is it
1:08.1	about this extraordinary filmmaker that makes him your jam.
1:12.0	He is my jam.
1:13.1	I love Paul Thomas Anderson because, I mean, he's been called the West Coast Scorsese.
1:19.0	You can see that in terms of the camera movements that he chooses and sometimes the subject matter.
1:23.9	He's also been compared to Robert Altman because of the great ensemble cast in some of his
1:29.1	movies. But he has a style that is definitely all his own. And this kind of sounds a little pretentious,
1:34.7	but he is an auteur. He is an author who, with his seventh film, Inherent Vice, he has now
1:40.8	directed seven movies. He wrote the screenplays for all the movies he directed.
1:45.7	Scorsese is a major influence. Obviously, Robert Altman. And there are other filmmakers as well.
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