num_pages: 288
description: A master class of the masterworks of Paul Thomas Anderson.  Variety MagazineFull of lavish photographs from his best-loved films.  A. FrameHere is a full-color coffee-table gift book exploring the 30-year creative journey of the eight-time Academy Awardnominated writer and director. Paul Thomas Masterworks is a fact-filled treasure-trove for movie fans; it explores Andersons career including the critically acclaimed awarding-winning Anderson has been described as one of American films modern masters and the foremost filmmaking talent of his generation. His films have received 25 Academy Award nominations and he has worked closely with many of the most accomplished actors of our time including Lesley Ann Manville Julianne Moore Daniel Day-Lewis Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman.Film critics and fans are constantly looking forward to what he might create next and discuss the meaning and technical aspects of his movies and most famous scenes. Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights  Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will be Blood  and Joaquin Phoenix in The Master are not just memorable movie performances they are the stuff of Hollywood legend.It also covers his music videos for Radiohead and his early short films. All are examined and illustrated in detail. Andersons influences; his style; and the recurring themes of alienation reinvention ambition and destiny that course through his movies are analyzed and supplemented by firsthand interviews with his closest collaboratorsand illuminated by film stills archival photos original illustrations and an appropriately psychedelic design aesthetic.Paul Thomas Masterworks is a tribute to the dreamers drifters and evil dentists who populate his world.
language: English
title: Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks
publisher: Harry N. Abrams