Wednesday, January 5, 2022

The Master (USA: Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)




The Master (USA: Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012: 144 mins)

Baldwin, Craig and Adam Parfrey. "Mock Up On Mu." The Projection Booth #116 (May 27, 2013) ["In the first of our two-part series on Scientology in Film, we look at Craig Baldwin's Mock Up on Mu, a story of sex magick, science fiction, and technology. We discuss Jack Parsons, one of the "characters" in Mock Up with Adam Parfrey of Feral House, the publishers of Sex & Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons. We also discuss Peter Alexander's The Profit, a re-telling of Scientology-founder L. Ron Hubbard's life, and compare it with Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master."]

Bernstein, Arielle and Nelson Carvajal. "The Inherent Vice in Paul Thomas Anderson's Films: A Video Essay." Press Play (January 2, 2015)

Brody, Richard. "The Astonishing Power of The Master." The New Yorker (September 10, 2012)

Carvajal, Nelson. "Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master." Free Cinema Now (August 17, 2012)


Flight, Thomas. "The Evolution of Paul Thomas Anderson." (Posted on Youtube: December 21, 2021)

Foley, Darren. "Paul Thomas Anderson Trilogy." Must See Films (2013)

Hoberman, J. "The Master - A Masterclass in Film." The Guardian (November 2, 2012)

Jack's Movie Reviews. "Paul Thomas Anderson - Finding a Purpose In Life." (Posted on Youtube: March 11, 2017)

Jones, Kent. "Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master: Battlefield Mankind." Film Comment (September-October 2012) 

Lee, Kevin B. "The Career of Paul Thomas Anderson in Five Shots." (Posted on Vimeo: 2013)

Petsche, Johanna J.M. "Scientology in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master."  The Handbook of Scientology. eds. Kjersti Hellesøy and James R. Lewis. Brill, 2016: 360-380.

Pinkerton, Nick. "The Master?: Paul Thomas Anderson as American auteur." The Point #15 (December 15, 2017)

Rabin, Nathan. "The Master offers an insane cure to a mad world." The Dissolve (April 7, 2015)

Ratzlaff, Jeremy. "Paul Thomas Anderson: A Chronological Timeline." (Posted on Vimeo: November 2015)

Sperb, Jason. Blossoms and blood : Postmodern media culture and the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. University of Texas Press, 2013.

Warren, Ethan. "The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha (Columbia University Press, 2023) New Books in Film (March 29, 2023) ["Paul Thomas Anderson’s evolution from a brash, self-anointed “Indiewood” auteur to one of his generation’s most distinctive voices has been one of the most remarkable career trajectories in recent film history. From early efforts to emulate his cinematic heroes to his increasingly singular late films, Anderson has created a body of work that balances the familiar and the strange, history and myth: viewers feel perpetually off balance, unsure of whether to expect a pitch-black joke or a moment of piercing emotional resonance. The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha (Columbia UP, 2023) provides the most complete account of Anderson’s career to date, encompassing his varied side projects and unproduced material; his personal and professional relationships with directors such as Jonathan Demme, Robert Altman, and Robert Downey Sr.; and his work as a director of music videos for Fiona Apple, Joanna Newsom, and Haim. Ethan Warren explores Anderson’s recurring thematic preoccupations―the fraught dynamics of gender and religious faith, biological and found families, and his native San Fernando Valley―as well as his screenwriting methods and his relationship to his influences. Warren argues that Anderson’s films conjure up an alternate American history that exaggerates and elides verifiable facts in search of a heightened truth marked by a deeper level of emotional hyperrealism. This book is at once an unconventional primer on Anderson’s films and a provocative reframing of what makes his work so essential."]


P.S. Hoffman from Caleb Slain on Vimeo.















































The Directors Series - Paul Thomas Anderson [Part 4] from FilmFrontier on Vimeo.




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