The Master is my favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie for a number of reasons. Here are just five.

Paul Thomas Anderson is taking us back to the San Fernando Valley...

MGM made some surprising comments about Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie today at CinemaCon.

Whether it's Alma Elson and Amber Waves or Rollergirl and Peggy Dodd, Paul Thomas Anderson has created some of the strongest female film characters.

After two decades, David Fincher finally responds to Paul Thomas Anderson wishing testicular cancer on him.

I love the filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. I love the band HAIM. I love the Los Angeles mainstay Canter's Deli. Am I going to love a PTA-directed HAIM music video set in Canter's Deli? Buddy — you know I am. Anderson has debuted his newest collaboration with HAIM, a music video called "Man from the Magazine," and it is a tight, simple, slice of simple delight. Lead singer Danielle Haim is the only member of the band we see in the video (though the entire band will ostensibly show up in Anderson's newest feature), and she seems …

Paul Thomas Anderson is one of America's most fascinating directors.

Production has quietly gotten underway on Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie, and information has been trickling out slowly – largely due to set photos snapped of PTA and his cast and crew filming in the street. That’s how we learned that Bradley Cooper is in the film (which is set in the 1970s), but now we know who the movie’s lead character will be played by: Cooper Hoffman, the son of the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman. Per THR, Cooper Hoffman is playing a child actor in the film – a character who’s at the center of the …

Benny Safdie, who co-directed Uncut Gems and Good Time and played Robert Pattinson's brother in the latter film, has been cast as a gay politician in Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie, which remains untitled for now. Set in the San Fernando Valley of the 1970s where Anderson grew up, the film follows a high school student who is also a successful child actor. It's unclear who is playing the lead, but Bradley Cooper has a key role, and judging from photos of him in character that have leaked from the set, he's playing a Jon …

While few films have begun production, especially stateside where the coronavirus is still raging uncontrollably (like your freshman roommate in college), word has come out that Paul Thomas Anderson’s new 1970s-set ensemble drama has official started (via The Film Stage). Based on photos people took this weekend, Anderson’s new film, with the codename Soggy Bottom, we can see that Bradley Cooper has reported for duty in his finest 70s attire (one of the only confirmed cast members, and only because people noticed him on set) and that musical group Haim, who have longstanding associations with Anderson (his …

Bradley Cooper is in talks to star in Paul Thomas Anderson's next movie, which recently moved from Focus Features to MGM, which has become rejuvenated under the leadership of Michael De Luca. The untitled coming-of-age drama finds Anderson returning to the San Fernando Valley of the 1970s -- the same setting as the first half of Boogie Nights. The director's next two films, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love, also took place in the Valley. Anderson's latest film follows a child actor attending high school in the Valley. Cooper is likely playing an old-school producer or …

Paul Thomas Anderson has made eight films, and none of them are bad. Such a track record immediately puts Anderson in rarefied air. How many other directors can boast eight in a row with no misses? Kurosawa? Hitchcock? Scorsese? Anderson belongs to this company and thensome, his work bursting at the seams with emotion, invention, and a palpable love of the game. Anderson's pure enthusiasm for cinema at times results in films and flourishes that wear their influences on their sleeves -- the aforementioned Scorsese, Kubrick, Altman -- but it's clear Anderson is no pastiche player. While running through his …

It’s been nearly three years since filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s last movie, but if you’ve been paying attention, we’ve actually been getting pretty consistent new material from PTA—albeit in music video form. Even before the masterful Phantom Thread hit theaters, Anderson was directing a series of music videos for the band Haim as well as a short film from their show at the Greek theater (he also directed the Radiohead short Anima). That trend continued with videos for the Haim songs “Summer Girl” and “Now I’m in It,” and now yet another brand new …

Paul Thomas Anderson has portrayed some compelling characters in his time, but, according to Rotten Tomatoes, these 10 roles were his best.

Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson has been keeping fairly quiet since the release of his 2017 film Phantom Thread, but now it looks like he’s gearing up for his next project. THR reports that the Boogie Nights helmer will return to the 1970s for his untitled feature, which “will be centered on a high school student who is also a successful child actor.” THR adds that “the project features a multitude of roles and could be ensemble in nature or have intersecting storylines.” What’s interesting here is that it sounds reminiscent of previous Anderson movies unlike Inherent Vice and …

Paul Thomas Anderson is one of those film-makers that get people excited every time they release something new. Anderson's latest project is the Netflix short film Anima which he made in collaboration with Thom Yorke. The excitement over Anima reminds us that Anderson is one of the most interesting artists working in the film industry today.

While we may still be waiting on Paul Thomas Anderson’s next feature film for a while, it appears we’ll have brand new PTA content to consume by the end of the month. Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke took to Twitter today to announce that a new album called ANIMA is coming out at the end of June, which was then followed by an announcement from Netflix that the album will be accompanied by a “short musical film” directed by PTA, scored by and starring Yorke, releasing on Netflix on June 27th. The short teaser video for ANIMA doesn’t …