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- “Big Daddy” (1999) By the time Paul Thomas Anderson got to work with Adam Sandler on “Punch-Drunk Love” he was already a massive fan of the comedy superstar.
- “Bad Day at Black Rock” (1955) Paul Thomas Anderson once famously cited John Sturges’ 1955 thriller “Bad Day at Black Rock” when giving out advice to aspiring young filmmakers, saying, “Work your way up, save your money, and forget film school.
- “The Bitter Tea of General Yen” (1933) While attending the New York Film Festival in 2014, Paul Thomas Anderson said he had recently watched Frank Capra’s 1933 romance “The Bitter Tea of General Yen” and immediately fell in love with it.
- “The Big Sleep” (1946) It was Paul Thomas Anderson’s love of meandering detective films like Howard Hawks’ “The Big Sleep” that inspired him to take a stab at adapting Thomas Pynchon’s “Inherent Vice” for the big screen.
- Out (2017) - 7.7
- T's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) - 7.8
- Hateful Eight (2015) - 7.8
- Kirk (2017) - 7.8
- L Me by Your Name (2017) - 7.9
- Ville (2003) - 8.0
- N Man (1988) - 8.0
- S (1975) - 8.1
- R Window (1954) - 8.5
- Silence of The Lambs (1991) - 8.6
Get Out is a social horror film, written and directed by Jordan Peele, about a young African-American man visiting his girlfriend's family for the first time, and his uneasiness about the situation comes to a horrifying boiling point. Peele's award winning script for the film is often considered one of the best written scripts of all time as its ex...
What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a classic drama about a young man in a small town struggling to take care of his mentally disabled younger brother and morbidly obese mother while he tries to live a life of his own. The film features career defining performances from Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, and a very young Leonardo DiCaprio. Fans of the film co...
The Hateful Eightis an action western with mystery about a bounty hunter and his prisoner finding shelter from a bad storm in a cabin currently inhabited by a group of odd characters. The film is written by Quentin Tarantino, and his eighth directorial effort. It's only right that at least one Tarantino film makes the list as Paul Thomas Anderson a...
Dunkirk is an action war film about the battle of Dunkirk in which Allied troops were surrounded and evacuated in one of the fiercest battles of WWII. Dunkirk is written and directed by Christopher Nolan and despite his incredible filmography, this is the film that get cited the most by other filmmakers as being their favorite. Both Paul Thomas And...
Call Me By Your Name is a romantic drama about an unexpected romance that blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and an older man hired as his father's research assistant for the summer in Italy. The film is directed by Luca Guadagnino and features incredible performances by Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer. Call Me By Your Name is unique ...
Dogville is a crime drama about a woman on the run from the mafia who reluctantly finds acceptance and protection in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but she quickly finds out that the community's support has a steep price. Dogville is written and directed by Lars Von Trier, a very controversial and provocative film maker known for...
Rain Man is a classic drama about a selfish L.A. yuppie who's left an inheritance from his estranged father, but finds out an autistic savant brother he didn't know existed is left a fortune. So, he travels cross country with his brother in an attempt to gain a larger inheritance. The film is directed by Hollywood legend Barry Levinson and features...
Jaws is the legendary action thriller about a killer shark unleashing chaos off the coast of a small town in long island as three locals hunt the beast down. The film is directed by a young and incredibly talented Steven Spielberg, and features iconic performances by Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw. Jawsis another film on the list t...
Rear Window is an Alfred Hitchcock classic about a wheelchair bound photographer spying on his neighbors out of his apartment window, and he quickly becomes convinced that one of his neighbors is a murder. Rear Windowis the oldest film featured on the list and is an absolute classic, like many of Hitchcock's other films. RELATED: Alfred Hitchcock's...
The Silence Of The Lambs is a legendary crime drama thriller about the a young F.B.I. cadet using the help of an incarcerated and very manipulative cannibal killer to catch another killer on the loose who's skinning his victims. The film is similar to the previous three featured on the list in that they're all certified classics. However, Silence O...
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- There Will Be Blood (2007) There Will Be Blood is the moment Anderson went from an exciting director to an essential one. At the time of its release, antiheroes weren’t as unusual in movies as they were on TV, with Tony Soprano’s influence trickling its way through prestige programming, and yet Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) feels almost unmatched in his brand of hyper-articulate monstrosity.
- Phantom Thread (2017) Anderson came up with Phantom Thread while sick in bed. “My wife”—that’s Maya Rudolph, though they aren’t technically married—“looked at me with a love and affection that I hadn’t seen in a long time,” he said.
- Boogie Nights (1997) Boogie Nights established Anderson’s sense of scale. It’s a saga about family—the chosen kind, or at least the happened-upon kind—filtered through the disco-inflected California porn scene of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.
- Punch-Drunk Love (2002) After the unfettered sprawl of Magnolia, Anderson was determined to cap his next project at 90 minutes. Out of that came Punch-Drunk Love, at once, paradoxically, Anderson’s most fantastical and most grounded movie.
Jun 14, 2021 · Here, completing a comprehensive list for Fav Favorites, Paul Thomas Anderson has collected his biggest influences, cinematic masterpieces that have influenced his own works over the years. See the complete list below. Paul Thomas Anderson’s favourite films: Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa – 1949) The Complete Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles – 1955)
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- Nashville (1975) Nashville is a coral story (as many of the directors Robert Altman were), about what happens in the five days leading to a concert organized in support of a presidential nominee.
- The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948) The Treasure of Sierra Madre is about Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart), a drifter in Mexico who accepts to go in search of gold in Sierra Madre.
- The Earrings of Madame De… (1953) The Earrings of Madame De… is a film about Comtesse Louise de… (Danielle Darrieux), a woman who has a great station in life and is married to the rich Général André de… (Charles Boyer).
- I Am Cuba (1964) Shot by Russians Mikhail Kalatozov and Sergei Urusevsky, I Am Cuba is more an exercise in incredible camera work, than a film where drama is the most important thing.
Mar 10, 2020 · Jason Hellerman. Mar 10, 2020. While Paul Thomas Anderson preps his work on an upcoming high school movie, we thought it would be great to look back on the movies that he's talked about that inspired him along the way. IndieWire assembled a list of PTA's favorite films and even cited where he talked about them.
Jun 26, 2017 · June 26, 2017, 9:04am. Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the most revered directors of his generation, and his personal taste in film is a unique blend of classic and contemporary choices,...
