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By Olga Tchepikova-Treon March 9, 2025 March 8, 2025 The Masterworks of Paul Thomas Anderson

Adam Sandler as Barry Egan leaning over a small harmonium, the word "love" carved into his wounded knuckles, and a torn map hanging off the wall behind him.

| MH Rowe | It qualifies neither as an obscure bit of Hollywood trivia nor as a famous declaration of aesthetic taste, but you may or may not happen to know that the director Paul Thomas Anderson once went on at length in an interview… Continue reading

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Love and Broken Glass

By Finn Odum March 9, 2025 March 8, 2025 The Masterworks of Paul Thomas Anderson

|Kit Stookey| When I first watched Punch-Drunk Love, I treated it like a horror movie, viewing parts of it between just-parted fingers. It was film as punishment. I had made my partner watch Shiva, Baby and experience all of its Gen-Z Jewish awkwardness. Now, he wanted to show… Continue reading

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