“He took the drink himself, I didn’t poison him.”
Lancaster Dodd and Freddie Quell, the protagonists of Paul Thomas Anderson’s exemplary film The Master, are not quite so different. Freddie (Joaquin Phoenix), while in the Navy, has developed an […]
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Vital meets Viral: the Revolutionary Marketing of The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson is not a filmmaker who follows convention. After an impressive, yet little-seen debut feature (Hard Eight) and two sprawling masterpieces that saw the young auteur wed Scorsese’s […]
“You have to insist you’re right even if you know you’re wrong.”
This review was originally published 4 October 2007. Several references to relative dates have been updated to reflect this current posting. The 2000 Presidential election has special significance to me. […]
Considering Film 