"With 11 Academy Award nominations, three Golden Globe wins and a historic sweep of prizes at Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals, Paul Thomas Anderson boasts a career that most filmmakers only dream of. Landing his first feature deal for Hard Eight at just 24, the San Fernando Valley native has since gone on to deliver one mind-addling, gut-wrenching, soul-searching masterpiece after another."
"What emerges are cerebral, labyrinthine and downright inventive cinematic experiences that burrow deep into our psyches long after the lights go up. While Anderson's early entries wore their influences openly - Robert Altman's overlapping storytelling with a dash of Martin Scorsese's kinetic bravado - he now clearly operates on his own plane. Fuelled by unbridled audacity and relentless ambition, the 55-year-old's trademark loose camerawork, indulgent tracking shots and painstaking compositions affirm him as one of America's greatest living filmmakers."
Paul Thomas Anderson has 11 Academy Award nominations, three Golden Globe wins, and a historic sweep of prizes at Cannes, Venice and Berlin. He secured his first feature deal for Hard Eight at 24 and grew up in the San Fernando Valley. His films vary widely in tone and subject but consistently display extraordinary empathy for human frailty, delivering cerebral, labyrinthine, and inventive cinematic experiences. Early influences include Robert Altman and Martin Scorsese, yet his audacious, ambitious approach now defines a singular cinematic voice. Signature techniques include loose camerawork, indulgent tracking shots and painstaking compositions. One Battle After Another arrives in UK cinemas.
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