Tangles of celluloid
January 1, 1970 Paul Thomas Anderson was born in Studio City (California) on January 1, 1970 and raised in the San Fernando Valley, is one of the directors who have been able to attract the attention and curiosity of critics in the years 2000. Since 1997 is in the crosshairs of international criticism, and this is a more unique than rare, for such a young director. Paul Thomas inherited the love of film from his father Ernie Anderson, well-known actor voice actor. His relationship with schools isn't the brightest: change and abandons two different college, then attended New York University Film School ", but need the courses for just two days. The objective of the young Paul Thomas Anderson is to work behind a camera and see many films is the only education they need. Anderson made his debut in 1988 with "The Dirk Diggler Story" a short film about a fictional character-inspired by the "porn King" John Holmes--that Mark Wahlberg will play in 1997 in a much more wide-ranging. After six years takes a new opportunity, and turns in 1993 the short "Cigarettes and Coffee" that is premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It is his first feature film, 1996 's "Hard Height" (with Philip Baker Hall, John c. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Samuel l. Jackson), with whom he also presents at Cannes, and "Film Comment" says Paul Thomas Anderson the most promising Director for 1997. The following year the Director gets the opportunity and the means to aim higher: "Boogie Nights" is a surprising film set in Los Angeles of porn movies, disco and cocaine (1976-1984). A great movie for the duration, the number of actors, parallel plots and their perfect coordination and the young age of the Director, not yet thirty. For the non-hidden similarities with "America today" you start talking about a new Robert Altman. Among the actors, as well as Mark Wahlberg, include Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Heather Graham, William h. Macy. Two years after Paul Thomas Anderson reconfirms her talent, displaces again with "Magnolia" (1999). Even in more than 3 hours of this work, and not surprisingly, alternate pieces of screw mixed in succession. Interweave the stories of nine main characters: there's an old family man who is dying; to assist the younger wife nervous and hysterical, and a nurse volunteer. The same family's entourage also includes a son (who hates the father figure), preacher nihilist and pseudo-guru to a sort of "machismo", starring Tom Cruise, a splendid and unusual for this part she won the Golden Globe and got an Oscar nomination. Then you have a kid when a television quiz champion and a former child prodigy who got lost along the way of life, a senior TV Anchorman with heavy skeletons in the closet and a cokehead daughter in tow, will end up fatally for falling for a clumsy law guardian. In addition to three Oscar nominations (original screenplay, original score, in addition to that of Tom Cruise) "Magnolia" gets a deserved Golden bear at the Berlin film festival, reiterating that "Boogie nights" was not an isolated stroke of genius of its Director. Anderson loves all his characters, even those obnoxious: everyone makes manifest the reasons, the feelings, the suffering. And yet, it's as if he himself were the invisible actor behind the face of each actor. No wonder so many interpreters who would like to work with this talented young director. After three years he left in 2002 "love Drunk" (Punch Drunk Love), film by which Paul Thomas Anderson Debuts at Cannes and won the award for Best Director, ex-aequo with Korean Kwon-Taek Im, and with whom he was nominated for the Palme d'Or. Performers include Adam Sandler, Emily Watson and Philip Seymour Hoffman. In 2008 released "there will be blood," whose main character, the Briton Daniel Day-Lewis, wins a statuette at the Oscars for best actor. Future plans of Anderson you know that has expressed interest in working together with Robert De Niro.