Paul Thomas Anderson's Feature Films

[Chimichanggas Joined: Dec 13th, 2017 Topics: 35 Posts: 2506 View Predictions]

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Paul Thomas Anderson had directed a total of eight feature films as of today. Vote for your top film from the poll and post your overall ranking of all of PTA’s films in this thread. Share your thoughts!

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[Chimichanggas Joined: Dec 13th, 2017 Topics: 35 Posts: 2506 View Predictions]

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I’ll start.

1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Master
3. Boogie Nights
4. Punch-Drunk Love
5. Phantom Thread
6. Magnolia
7. Inherent Vice
8. Hard Eight

For me, There Will Be Blood will remain to be his most prominent work ever. No Country for Old Men, also a God-tier film, won against it by just a hair.

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[FairWeatherAffair Joined: May 11th, 2018 Topics: 6 Posts: 941 View Predictions]

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Ooo fun!

1. Inherent Vice
2. Phantom Thread
3. The Master
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Boogie Nights
6. Magnolia
7. Punch-Drunk Love
8. Hard Eight

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[M: The Original Joined: Aug 5th, 2014 Topics: 61 Posts: 6678 View Predictions]

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-The Master
-Punch-Drunk Love
-Boogie Nights
-Phantom Thread
-Magnolia
-Inherent Vice
-There Will Be Blood
-Hard Eight

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[dimedropper34 Joined: Dec 29th, 2017 Topics: 2 Posts: 12 View Predictions]

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HUGE PTA fan here (spot my DP as Rollergirl from Boogie Nights) my all-time favorite, I really follow his work :>

Here’s my list:

1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Master

These two consecutive works took his art to a whole new level. His style went from the exuberant pacing and dynamic camera movement (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) to a more sombre, character-driven style of storytelling. Plainview and Freddie are undeniably the deepest characters he has created thus far and his visual literacy in directing really went top since these films.

3. Magnolia
MY PERSONAL FAVORITE movie of all time. It just gives everything to you on a screen. The prologue justifies its mess that what if everything just happens altogether by chance? That’s the point of cinema and how it allows for ambitious ways of storytelling like this; that yes, wouldn’t have worked elsewhere.

4. Boogie Nights
Other fans would argue this as the #1 and rightly so with the atmosphere by the many characters that really takes you on a ride that adds magic to one of PTA’s rather simpler stories.

5. Phantom Thread
6. Punch Drunk Love
7. Inherent Vice
8. Hard Eight

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[BetteDavis Joined: Feb 4th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 742 View Predictions]

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I don’t think he’s ever made a bad movie. Some are better than others, but he’s got a great track record.

There Will Be Blood is still my favorite.  Followed by Magnolia.

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