I Walk Through The Valley: The PTA Fan Club

If nobody objects I will start a thread for Hard Eight tomorrow. You guys want to do one a moth or every two weeks?

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Either works for me, Yam can decide. Looking forward to it.

I'd like to finish them all before his new one comes out, which I believe is in December so I think if we do one every two weeks I think we'll be finished with time to spare

Works for me.

I watched Punch Drunk Love. I will try to possibly work on a write up for it.

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I love Punch-Drunk Love.

My favourite superhero movie.

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A few people getting around to Hard Eight. Check out the thread and join in. Boogie Nights will be up starting tomorrow. Watched it for the third time last night. Great movie that I get a further appreciation for each time. Very surprising considering how anti-porn I am.

Definitely taking part in Boogie Nights, haven't seen it since i was 16. It's two weeks right?

Yes

What's your ultimate verdict after rewatching them all, @seanc?

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I always call Wes my fave director but I really don't know how I can't say PTA. His run of Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk, There Will Be Blood, and The Master is absolutely astounding. I give them all easy 5/5. He is such a master of tone and character. His choices of music. I just start gushing thinking about him.

Watching them all in order The Master I think is definitely my favorite. I think you may have responded to that last week. I love how enigmatic it is despite being completely straight forward in its narrative.

Magnolia still has a special place in my heart and I am tempted to put both in my top ten actually.

I just adore Punch Drunk Love. I love the way that film handles loneliness. The role Sandler started acting for. Probably not, but it sounded good.

Boogie Nights is hilarious. I said it once, I said it 100 times, and will keep saying it. I abhor porn but somehow PTA draws me into that world effortlessly.

After The Master, I've accepted that PTA is my favorite director of his generation and the one I'm most excited about when a new film of his is getting released.

I did and I agreed. My love for that film is so strong and deep that it has come to the point where I think it's pretty much impossible for PTA to ever surpass it (for me) in the future. It's truly a perfect film. I'd worship him like a God if he'd ever make another film that I connect with in such a profound manner. (I almost am worshipping him like a God already, now that I think of it)

It still has my love as well. I'd actually like to see it back to back with Altman's Short Cuts someday. I'm still not sure which of those two I like better. It used to be Magnolia, but now that I'm getting "older" as a cinephile I'm more leaning towards Short Cuts. I think PTA would agree with me as he's kind of lost that energetic and youthful style that he loved to display so much in his first few films. Magnolia is still a fantastic experience, though.

It's delicious, yeah. It's kind of the "bridge picture" between his old and his new style as a filmmaker. It's a beautifully balanced film.

I'll say it again: it's the only film that came close to doing what Goodfellas did. It was one of the greatest first watches I ever had and it keeps feeling as energetic and fun as it was during that first time!

@Cobpyth Wish you would have watched with us. You articulate theme and techniques so much better than me. You probably could talk me up a star on Vice. I never feel like I am doing great films justice. Here is hoping Phantom Thread is amazing. When you getting it over there?

I'm afraid it's going to be released somewhere in February, here in Belgium. There's no official date yet.

Inherent Vice is still rising in reputation for me everytime I rewatch it, think about it or revisit scenes from it. It's his most difficult film to fully grasp because it's structured as a moment-by-moment flick while simultaneously setting out a complex but cohesive web of subplots that adds up to the huge paranoid drugged up mindf*ck that it actually is. There's no film to better compare it to than The Big Sleep in that regard. Both films get immensely more pleasant the more you can let go of the plot and enjoy the moments because you're sufficiently familiar with the bigger story already.

Phantom Thread....meh....

PTA just did a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything).

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/commen...d_director_of/

I knew that I was right about which film he felt most proud of:

Question:

Answer:


Now I'm going to read the whole thing. Enjoy, PTA fans!

Didn't know that. If I recall at one point he said Magnolia was the best film he's ever made.

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Believe it was actually something like "For better or worse Magnolia is the best film i'll ever make", although i read somewhere that it was a joke too. Who knows.

I looked at the thread after I posted that and he wrote that he prefers Junun. Don't know if he was being serious but I'll have to check that out some time

Guessing PTA was a fan of Girls Trip since he said Tiffany Haddish is the actor or actress he'd like to work with most. A few people have actually told me that was hilarious. Or maybe it was The Carmichael Show i've heard that was good too.