In effect, Dementia 13 was Francis Ford Coppola’s first film as a director. While his name had been attached to two earlier exploitation films, Tonight for Sure and The [...]

Sam Mendes’ latest film is probably his most ambitious – a World War I drama that appears to unfold as a single shot, following two soldiers as they try to deliver a [...]

Paul Thomas Anderson has said that The Master is his best film, and it’s certainly his most controlled – so tautly controlled, in fact, that is was inevitable his next [...]

There’s something about the critical response to Cats that signals a crisis in film criticism itself, since there’s no way this is the nightmare that most reviewers have [...]

Paul Thomas Anderson has repeatedly stated that The Master is his favourite film in his career – the film where he really felt everything came together just as he had [...]

Most films about old people are either tragic or saccharine – or both – while old people are often used as markers of authenticity and sentimentality in mainstream cinema [...]

Paul Thomas Anderson made the transition to the second part of his career with There Will Be Blood, an adaptation of a small section of Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil!, [...]

Electing to adapt Little Women was a big gesture for Greta Gerwig, not simply because of the stature of the original novel, or the number of adaptations that already exist, [...]

After the magisterial scope of Boogie Nights and Punch-Drunk Love, Paul Thomas Anderson returned to the smaller scale of his debut feature with Punch-Drunk Love, a virtual [...]