{"id":161894,"date":"2023-04-11T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/paul-thomas-anderson-masterworks"},"modified":"2023-04-11T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:22:48","slug":"paul-thomas-anderson-masterworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/paul-thomas-anderson-masterworks","title":{"rendered":"Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paul-thomas-anderson-masterworks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>An illustrated mid-career monograph exploring the 30-year creative journey of the 8-time Academy Award-nominated writer and director<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Paul Thomas Anderson has been described as \u201cone of American film\u2019s modern masters\u201d and \u201cthe foremost filmmaking talent of his generation.\u201d Anderson\u2019s \ufb01lms have received 25 Academy Award nominations, and he has worked closely with many of the most accomplished actors of our time, including Lesley Ann Manville, Julianne Moore, Daniel Day-Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Philip Seymour Ho\ufb00man. In <i>Paul Thomas Anderson: <i>Masterworks<\/i><\/i>, Anderson\u2019s entire career\u2014from <i>Hard Eight<\/i> (1996), <i>Boogie Nights<\/i> (1997), <i>Magnolia<\/i> (1999), <i>Punch Drunk Love<\/i> (2002), <i>There Will Be Blood<\/i> (2007), <i>The Master<\/i> (2012), <i>Inherent Vice<\/i> (2014), and <i>Phantom Thread<\/i> (2017) to his music videos for Radiohead to his early short \ufb01lms\u2014is examined in illustrated detail for the \ufb01rst time.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson\u2019s in\ufb02uences, his style, and the recurring themes of alienation, reinvention, ambition, and destiny that course through his movies are analyzed and supplemented by \ufb01rsthand interviews with Anderson\u2019s closest collaborators\u2014including producer JoAnne Sellar, actor Vicky Krieps, and composer Jonny Greenwood\u2014and illuminated by \ufb01lm stills, archival photos, original illustrations, and an appropriately psychedelic design aesthetic. <i>Masterworks<\/i> is a tribute to the dreamers, drifters, and evil dentists who populate his world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An illustrated mid-career monograph exploring the 30-year creative journey of the 8-time Academy Award-nominated writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has been described as \u201cone of American film\u2019s modern masters\u201d and \u201cthe foremost filmmaking talent of his generation.\u201d Anderson\u2019s \ufb01lms have received 25 Academy Award nominations, and he has worked closely with many of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}