ridingwithstrangers: I just met P. T. fucking Anderson! Who knew my aimless walk around the neighborhood over the weekend, would lead to a chance encounter with none other than P.T. Anderson! I was doing a casual fly by my favorite museum and there he was! Seemingly out of nowhere, with no apparent reason to be there. Barely gathering myself after the initial stunned state over my incredible dumb luck, I went up to him to speak. The exact content and nature of the conversation deserves a separate post entirely but as it turned out he was planing a private 70mm screening later that night for few of his friends and family members. And the best part? He let me be a part of it!  Yep. I got to see ‘The Master’ (something I’d been so eagerly waiting for) with Paul Thomas Anderson - the master himself, ahead of it’s release, for free*. Let that sink in for a minute. (The sheer amazement and the surreal nature of the whole thing I cannot be overstated.) As for what I thought of the film itself, it’d be silly for me to try to put into words. You’d have to see it for yourself. But suffice to say it’s easily one of the greatest films to come out in last decade and certainly one of the last great films to be ever cut on film (sadly, as studios phase out film productions in favor of digital.) If nothing else, just the sheer beauty of this film will make you weep. And since it’d be a crime to claim to have seen the film and not say a word about the performances, let me just say that Philip Seymour Hoffman has never been or looked so good. Same goes for Amy Adams. And then there’s Joaquin Phoenix. His performance in ‘The Master’ will astound you, make your jaw hit the floor and move you to the core. It’s nothing short of electrifying. (There’s someone else too behind the scene: Johnny Greenwood, who you don’t see on screen, but his work permeates seamlessly and masterfully through out the film and gives a lot of it’s sublime beauty and tone. I’d say the score for ‘The Master’ is ever better than ‘There Will Be Blood’.) And just to get back to P.T. Anderson for a second (that incredibly talented, aesthetically pleasing, sweet man that he is): I never got to experience Kubrick’s ascendance in real time, but P.T. Anderson, he’s starting to become, in his own way, this generation’s Stanley Kubrick. And that to me, is pretty damn exciting.  p/s. If you live near New York, do yourself a favor and seek out the film when it get’s a limited release on Sept. 14th. Rest of you, wait ‘til October 12th. *not that I won’t be seeing it again when it comes out.

ridingwithstrangers:

I just met P. T. fucking Anderson!

Who knew my aimless walk around the neighborhood over the weekend, would lead to a chance encounter with none other than P.T. Anderson!

I was doing a casual fly by my favorite museum and there he was! Seemingly out of nowhere, with no apparent reason to be there. Barely gathering myself after the initial stunned state over my incredible dumb luck, I went up to him to speak. The exact content and nature of the conversation deserves a separate post entirely but as it turned out he was planing a private 70mm screening later that night for few of his friends and family members. And the best part? He let me be a part of it! 

Yep.

I got to see ‘The Master’ (something I’d been so eagerly waiting for) with Paul Thomas Anderson - the master himself, ahead of it’s release, for free*.

Let that sink in for a minute. (The sheer amazement and the surreal nature of the whole thing I cannot be overstated.)

As for what I thought of the film itself, it’d be silly for me to try to put into words. You’d have to see it for yourself. But suffice to say it’s easily one of the greatest films to come out in last decade and certainly one of the last great films to be ever cut on film (sadly, as studios phase out film productions in favor of digital.) If nothing else, just the sheer beauty of this film will make you weep.

And since it’d be a crime to claim to have seen the film and not say a word about the performances, let me just say that Philip Seymour Hoffman has never been or looked so good. Same goes for Amy Adams. And then there’s Joaquin Phoenix. His performance in ‘The Master’ will astound you, make your jaw hit the floor and move you to the core. It’s nothing short of electrifying. (There’s someone else too behind the scene: Johnny Greenwood, who you don’t see on screen, but his work permeates seamlessly and masterfully through out the film and gives a lot of it’s sublime beauty and tone. I’d say the score for ‘The Master’ is ever better than ‘There Will Be Blood’.)

And just to get back to P.T. Anderson for a second (that incredibly talented, aesthetically pleasing, sweet man that he is): I never got to experience Kubrick’s ascendance in real time, but P.T. Anderson, he’s starting to become, in his own way, this generation’s Stanley Kubrick. And that to me, is pretty damn exciting. 

p/s. If you live near New York, do yourself a favor and seek out the film when it get’s a limited release on Sept. 14th. Rest of you, wait ‘til October 12th.

*not that I won’t be seeing it again when it comes out.