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Boogie Nights has the quality of many great films, in that it always seems alive. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle stated, "Boogie Nights is the first great film about the 1970s to come out since the '70s ... It gets all the details right, nailing down the styles and the music.
- $43.1 million
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- $15 million
- Michael Penn
- Garin Pirnia
- WAHLBERG INITIALLY DIDN’T WANT TO BE IN THE MOVIE, BECAUSE OF SHOWGIRLS. At this stage in Mark Wahlberg’s career, he had a hit song under the name Marky Mark, had done The Basketball Diaries—which is how Anderson discovered him—and was basically an underwear model.
- BURT REYNOLDS DISLIKED PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON AND THE MOVIE. It’s no secret the pair didn’t get along on set. Reynolds, who played porn filmmaker Jack Horner, recently told GQ why their personalities clashed.
- REYNOLDS AND ANDERSON NEARLY CAME TO PHYSICAL BLOWS. Everybody on the set knew Reynolds had a temper, and everybody knew the director and Reynolds didn’t quite get along.
- ANDERSON THINKS A GOOD PORN STAR NAME SHOULD HAVE TWO “G”S AND ONE “K” IN IT. The director told NPR he’s not sure how he came up with the name Dirk Diggler, but for some reason he wrote the name down on an index card when he was 17 years old.
Without doubt the best songwriter to come out of UK. Barry from Sauquoit, Ny On July 17th 1977, "Boogie Nights" by Heatwave entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #93; and on November 6th, 1977 it peaked at #2 (for 2 weeks) and spent over a half-year on the Top 100 (27 weeks, and for 9 of those weeks it was on the Top 10)...
Jan 22, 2015 · Boogie Nights is also a love letter to filmmaking, in the same vein as Truffaut's Day For Night, another film about the crazy kids who, despite the schlock they are churning out, are in love with film itself (cf. the scene in BN where magician, writer, and frequent Anderson collaborator Ricky Jay tries to convince Burt Reynolds to spring for a bunch of expensive lighting equipment and is ...
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Jan 6, 2010 · Boogie Nights. It became known, and ultimately reviled, as Disco. But the music that surged out of gay underground New York clubs such as the Loft and 12 West in the early 70s was the sound of ...
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The song became one of the best-known disco songs by a British group and charted at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. In the US, "Boogie Nights" also peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 behind "You Light Up My Life" by Debby Boone. [2] It appeared on US Billboard R&B and dance charts during 1977. "Boogie Nights" reached No. 1 in New Zealand.
Jun 2, 2022 · The film results in making Anderson one of the hot mid-90s indie-film power players, along with David O. Russell, Quentin Tarantino, and Spike Lee. 25 years later, Boogie Nights is a film that is firmly entrenched in the pantheon of iconic independent films. Its now cultlike status has influenced the meme and GIF generation along with countless ...
