Originally posted on First Scene Screenplay Festival:
Brian Raftery’s film criticism book Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen has had many pop culture pundits gazing twenty years back to 1999 as a creative pinnacle of modern cinema. Frankly, I don’t fully buy the claim that the year was anything special,…
Month: July 2020
Movie Review: Hard Eight — andrewhalteromniblog
Originally posted on First Scene Screenplay Festival:
Hard Eight (1996) Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Phillip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow Hard Eight, the meticulously crafted first feature from Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love, There Will be Blood), is completely and unpredictably engrossing. From the very…
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