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...Punch-Drunk Love, the latest movie from master filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, is a fresh, subdued playlet of a comedy from a director famed for grand melodramatic spectacle. It has the same brand of cinematic flair that nourished Anderson’s modern classics Boogie Nights and Magnolia, but it’s a matured sort of flair; it’s quieter, more sparingly used. What Anderson has created with Punch-Drunk Love is not his best work, but it’s certainly his artiest—formally brilliant, deliberately paced and rife with transcendent moments...
Barry’s evolution spurs a change in our perceptions of Sandler as well. In Punch-Drunk Love’s first half, Barry holds our interest far more as a temperamental volcano than as a patient, low-key professional; it’s hilarious to watch him suddenly go on a window-breaking rampage, or dissolve into quiet sobs without warning in mid-conversation, or silently walk into a bathroom and rip it to shreds with his bare hands. But as he falls for Lena, Barry’s energy grows to serve a normal, workable emotion...
...diversify their drinking possibilities. Why not make a “punch” or “cider” with a few handles of vodka, or simply carry around a flask to assure that, if kegs aren’t allowed, at least you can get drunk? Even more comical is the administration’s failure to see beyond the initial effect of the policy. Kegs might not make their way into the tailgates (as much as in previous years) but the number of cans, cups and bottles will grow astronomically. While the administration might be happy...
...October, Watson will fall for another oddball, Adam Sandler, in Punch-Drunk Love, a seriously twisted romantic comedy designed to give Sandler the artistic credibility that has so far eluded him. Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights and Magnolia), the movie stars Sandler as a lonely, disturbed bachelor and Watson as the apparently pulled-together woman who falls deeply, inexplicably in love with him. Though Watson and Sandler are as unlikely a pair as you will find onscreen this year, Anderson wrote the movie with them in mind. "Emily and I got together for lunch," says Anderson...
While preparing for her Red Dragon role, Watson hung out with a blind woman. For Punch-Drunk Love, she familiarized herself with her co-star's work. "I sat down and watched the Adam Sandler oeuvre," says Watson. "It's quite a delicious thought. I'm in London watching Big Daddy and all that, and Adam's in Los Angeles watching Breaking the Waves. I do enjoy him on film. I just think he's got something that's so lovable...