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...energy, rendering television advertising useless, and its built-in audiences will scorn it: it’s not the sort of over-the-top fare that attracts Sandler’s fans, while Anderson’s cult, salivating over the prospect of another high-octane meditation in the Magnolia vein, will likely see it as an agreeable but minor work. Years from now, it will probably surface at the Coolidge as part of their series of flops from famous directors. Nevertheless, I’ll defend it; it’s slow and somewhat slight, but there?...
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...
...Soon all eyes were on Anderson. How would he follow up such a huge success? Rumor had it that Anderson wanted to try his hand at a quick 90-minute comedy. Instead, he created perhaps one of the greatest pieces of art in the last 20 years—Magnolia, a film that weaves a beautiful tableau of the ups and downs of human existence and, ultimately, of redemption. Though in some respects a huge critical success (it won the Golden Bear Award at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival) the film was met with a mixed reaction—some...
...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...
...possible. Since 1996, while enriching the coffers of Paramount and his own production company with the Mission: Impossible action movies (a third, to be directed by David Fincher, is in development), he has stretched himself as an actor and received Oscar nominations for riskier roles in Jerry Maguire and Magnolia. Cruise is famously professional and polite, on time and always prepared, Hollywood's eagle scout. His not-so-secret craving is for control, starting with himself but not ending there. For one crucial scene in Minority Report, Cruise was required to submerge himself in a bathtub, then emit a solitary...