As we continue to explore the best in 2022, today we’re taking a look at the articles that you, our dear readers, enjoyed the most throughout the past twelve months. Spanning reviews, interviews, features, podcasts, news, and trailers, check out the highlights below and return for more year-end coverage as well as a glimpse into 2023.
Most-Read Reviews
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2. Don’t Worry Darling
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4. The 2022 Oscar-Nominated Short Films, Reviewed
5. Gentle
6. Alice, Darling
7. Speak No Evil
8. Bones and All
9. First Love
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Most-Read Interviews
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2. Michael Bauman on Lighting Licorice Pizza and Bringing Paul Thomas Anderson’s Vision to Life
3. Licorice Pizza Editor Andy Jurgensen on Collaborating with Paul Thomas Anderson, Deleted Scenes, and Keeping the Momentum
4. Life Is Suffering: David Cronenberg on Kidney Stones, NFTs, and Crimes of the Future
5. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Team on Sex Positivity,...
Most-Read Reviews
1. Deep Water
2. Don’t Worry Darling
3. Avatar: The Way of Water
4. The 2022 Oscar-Nominated Short Films, Reviewed
5. Gentle
6. Alice, Darling
7. Speak No Evil
8. Bones and All
9. First Love
10. Ticket to Paradise
Most-Read Interviews
1. Strange What Love Does: David Lynch on Remastering Inland Empire
2. Michael Bauman on Lighting Licorice Pizza and Bringing Paul Thomas Anderson’s Vision to Life
3. Licorice Pizza Editor Andy Jurgensen on Collaborating with Paul Thomas Anderson, Deleted Scenes, and Keeping the Momentum
4. Life Is Suffering: David Cronenberg on Kidney Stones, NFTs, and Crimes of the Future
5. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Team on Sex Positivity,...
- 1/2/2023
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
After using his string of Haim music videos as tests for Licorice Pizza––camera technology, but also of course collaborating with Alana Haim––it’s no surprise Paul Thomas Anderson has helmed another for the band. First released solely in theaters upon the film’s widest expansion a few weeks back, the music video for “Lost Track” has now found its way online, which includes many LP collaborators behind the scenes.
As W Magazine reports, the 50s-set video, inspired by San Fernando Valley social clubs, captures “The Balboa Ladies Society” at the Annual Balboa Gold Rush and Fashion Bazaar—an idea generated by PTA himself. You can also spot PTA’s daughter Pearl Anderson, who briefly appeared in Licorice Pizza.
“You do a lot of testing. And we test not only for the actors to see how they’re doing, but also we’re testing different film stock, different technologies.
As W Magazine reports, the 50s-set video, inspired by San Fernando Valley social clubs, captures “The Balboa Ladies Society” at the Annual Balboa Gold Rush and Fashion Bazaar—an idea generated by PTA himself. You can also spot PTA’s daughter Pearl Anderson, who briefly appeared in Licorice Pizza.
“You do a lot of testing. And we test not only for the actors to see how they’re doing, but also we’re testing different film stock, different technologies.
- 3/1/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars and Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar and Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. The eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and is subject to change.
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Oscars Collective
Visit each category, per the individual awards show from The Oscars Hub
Revisit the prediction archive of the 2021 season The Archive
Link to television awards is atTHE Emmys Hub
2022 Oscars Predictions:
Best Cinematography
Updated: Jan 30, 2022
Awards Prediction Commentary: The ASC Awards recognized Ari Wegner in the theatrical...
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Oscars Collective
Visit each category, per the individual awards show from The Oscars Hub
Revisit the prediction archive of the 2021 season The Archive
Link to television awards is atTHE Emmys Hub
2022 Oscars Predictions:
Best Cinematography
Updated: Jan 30, 2022
Awards Prediction Commentary: The ASC Awards recognized Ari Wegner in the theatrical...
- 1/30/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Training Day, Iron Man, The Master, Munich, Ford v Ferrari, The Bling Ring, Nightcrawler, Ray, Birds of Prey, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, Syriana, The Conjuring 2––meet Michael Bauman, the man who’s lit it all. That’s not even a quarter of the credits to his name, almost all of which, since 1994, list him as gaffer or chief lighting technician. Different productions have different titles, but it’s essentially the same job: he’s in charge of light. Where it goes in or out of frame, how it’s sourced, how it plays on screen, the strength, the tone, the hue, the shadow, all of it. In a medium created to capture light, that’s a vital role. He characterizes frames through details that guide our viewing experience, creating thematic throughlines with color, or heightening specific moments with dynamic shading, or falsifying daylight, or something else we take for granted.
- 12/30/2021
- by Luke Hicks
- The Film Stage
Featuring potentially star-making turns from Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim, Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, Licorice Pizza, is not only one of the director’s more interesting character-driven films, but also possibly one of his best.
With Licorice Pizza, Anderson takes a stab at the portrayal of young love in the San Fernando Valley, circa the early 1970s. Specifically, the story centers around Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) and Alana Kane (Alana Haim) as they meet, fall in love, have relationship problems, make up (sort of), and seemingly move on together with their lives.
As with many of his other films, Anderson wears more than one hat in addition to directing Licorice Pizza. He is also the writer of the screenplay as well as a co-cinematographer (along with Michael Bauman). That kind of hands-on involvement permeates the film throughout and gives it a cohesive feel from beginning to end. Much...
With Licorice Pizza, Anderson takes a stab at the portrayal of young love in the San Fernando Valley, circa the early 1970s. Specifically, the story centers around Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) and Alana Kane (Alana Haim) as they meet, fall in love, have relationship problems, make up (sort of), and seemingly move on together with their lives.
As with many of his other films, Anderson wears more than one hat in addition to directing Licorice Pizza. He is also the writer of the screenplay as well as a co-cinematographer (along with Michael Bauman). That kind of hands-on involvement permeates the film throughout and gives it a cohesive feel from beginning to end. Much...
- 12/24/2021
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
The real novelty of Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson’s ninth feature, may have much less to do with the film’s locale and plot than its tone. Set in 1973 in the San Fernando Valley of the director’s childhood, the film chronicles the unlikely friendship-cum-maybe-romance between fifteen-year-old child actor and precocious entrepreneur Gary and a young woman ten years his senior, Alana. Sprawling and laid-back, replete with narrative cul-de-sacs, cameos, and oddball tangents, Licorice Pizza marks an abrupt rupture from the austere formalism of some of Anderson’s other works—think The Master or the more recent Phantom Thread. As Richard Lawson argues at Vanity Fair, "Over his brilliant, wandering career, Anderson has shown us plenty of scuzz and grime, alongside flashes of kinetic verve and primordial howl. But Licorice Pizza is, by some measure, his most deliberately pleasant film to date. It’s a lively, messy coming-of-age story...
- 12/16/2021
- MUBI
Licorice Pizza cinematographer Michael Bauman, editor Andy Jurgensen and production designer Florencia Martin said director Paul Thomas Anderson used 1970s processes to create the MGM/United Artists Releasing film. The trio spoke about the upcoming pic, about coming of age in the San Fernando Valley in that same era, during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles award-season event Sunday at the DGA Theater.
“Most of the time you’re using more modern glass, you get a sharper image,” Bauman said. “That was the exact opposite of what we’re doing here. We had a set of lenses Gordon Willis used from the ‘70s. The C Series is a very old series of lenses too. It adds that texture in the image.”
Jurgensen said Anderson shot Licorice Pizza on 35mm film, already a rarity in 2021 Hollywood; 70mm prints are blown up from 35.
Bauman said he screened film dailies every day, like...
“Most of the time you’re using more modern glass, you get a sharper image,” Bauman said. “That was the exact opposite of what we’re doing here. We had a set of lenses Gordon Willis used from the ‘70s. The C Series is a very old series of lenses too. It adds that texture in the image.”
Jurgensen said Anderson shot Licorice Pizza on 35mm film, already a rarity in 2021 Hollywood; 70mm prints are blown up from 35.
Bauman said he screened film dailies every day, like...
- 11/14/2021
- by Fred Topel
- Deadline Film + TV
Paul Thomas Anderson served as his own cinematographer on the “Phantom Thread,” which meant he collaborated closely with – and relied upon – his long-time gaffer Michael Bauman and camera/steadicam operator Colin Anderson more than on his previous seven films. Anderson has been reluctant to take the director of photography title – having given Bauman a lighting cameraman credit, a nod to the credit Stanley Kubrick gave John Alcott on “Barry Lyndon” – and views the film’s photography as having been a collaboration, with him being the final decision-maker.
In talking to Anderson’s collaborators, it’s clear there is a duality, or maybe more specifically a contradiction, to the way he works. He’s a filmmaker who knows exactly what he wants in terms of lighting, the cinematic style and look of his films, but he needs to see it before knowing what it is that he wants. It’s a...
In talking to Anderson’s collaborators, it’s clear there is a duality, or maybe more specifically a contradiction, to the way he works. He’s a filmmaker who knows exactly what he wants in terms of lighting, the cinematic style and look of his films, but he needs to see it before knowing what it is that he wants. It’s a...
- 12/20/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Any new Paul Thomas Anderson film is guaranteed to create excitement, but “Phantom Thread” has generated more buzz than usual for two reasons: The drama marks a reunion between Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis ten years after “There Will Be Blood” and the movie finds the director serving as his own cinematographer on a feature film for the first time. The latter point has been a topic of discussion ever since the movie began production in February without a cinematographer credit on its creative roster. Sources told IndieWire at the time that Anderson had been toying with the idea of working as his own cinematographer for years, but that’s not exactly how the director sees it.
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“That would be disingenuous and just plain wrong to say that I was the director of photography on the film,...
Read More:Paul Thomas Anderson Breaks His Silence on ‘Phantom Thread’: ‘It’s Not Your Standard Love Story’
“That would be disingenuous and just plain wrong to say that I was the director of photography on the film,...
- 11/6/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
When Focus Features announced in February that production began in the U.K. on Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, one notable role wasn’t on the production’s creative roster: director of photography. It’s not unusual for Anderson’s movies to be shrouded in secrecy, with crew members required to sign non-disclosure agreements, but in this case the answer hid in plain sight: Anderson worked as his own Dp.
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What will be Daniel Day-Lewis’ last movie was known as “Phantom Thread” during production, but that will not be the title when the film hits theaters Christmas Day, IndieWire has learned. Written and directed by Anderson, the movie set in 1950s London stars Day-Lewis as a dressmaker commissioned by royalty and high society.
Anderson toyed with the idea of working as both director and Dp on one of his movies for years,...
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What will be Daniel Day-Lewis’ last movie was known as “Phantom Thread” during production, but that will not be the title when the film hits theaters Christmas Day, IndieWire has learned. Written and directed by Anderson, the movie set in 1950s London stars Day-Lewis as a dressmaker commissioned by royalty and high society.
Anderson toyed with the idea of working as both director and Dp on one of his movies for years,...
- 6/29/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
The movie news that the film community has been waiting for: Focus Features sent out an official press release giving us an update on the new unititled Paul Thomas Anderson film, which reunites him with Daniel Day-Lewis after the two collaborated on the 2007 masterpiece There Will Be Blood.
Cameras are rolling on Paul Thomas Anderson's eighth picture in the United Kingdom under the working title Phantom Thread, although the press release addresses it as "Untitled." I think Phantom Thread is a title fitting of Paul Thomas Anderson's oeuvre of masterpieces, but we'll see what they land on in the near future. The film is being distributed by Focus Features and Universal Pictures with an anticipated release date in late 2017.
The meat of the press release as follows:
Continuing their creative collaboration following 2007’s There Will Be Blood, which earned Mr. Day-Lewis the Best Actor Academy Award, Mr. Anderson...
Cameras are rolling on Paul Thomas Anderson's eighth picture in the United Kingdom under the working title Phantom Thread, although the press release addresses it as "Untitled." I think Phantom Thread is a title fitting of Paul Thomas Anderson's oeuvre of masterpieces, but we'll see what they land on in the near future. The film is being distributed by Focus Features and Universal Pictures with an anticipated release date in late 2017.
The meat of the press release as follows:
Continuing their creative collaboration following 2007’s There Will Be Blood, which earned Mr. Day-Lewis the Best Actor Academy Award, Mr. Anderson...
- 2/2/2017
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Collin Llewellyn)
- Cinelinx
Production has begun in the U.K. on writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s untitled new film. Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is joined in the cast by Lesley Manville, who was a BAFTA Award nominee for Best Actress for Another Year, and Vicky Krieps, whose films include A Most Wanted Man and Focus Features’ Hanna.
Focus holds worldwide rights to the film, and will distribute the film in the U.S. later this year with Universal Pictures handling international distribution.
The film’s producers are JoAnne Sellar, Megan Ellison, through her Annapurna Pictures, and Paul Thomas Anderson. The executive producers are Peter Heslop, Adam Somner, and Daniel Lupi. Chelsea Barnard and Jillian Longnecker are overseeing production for Annapurna.
Continuing their creative collaboration following 2007’s There Will Be Blood, which earned Mr. Day-Lewis the Best Actor Academy Award, Mr. Anderson will once again explore a distinctive milieu of the 20th century.
Focus holds worldwide rights to the film, and will distribute the film in the U.S. later this year with Universal Pictures handling international distribution.
The film’s producers are JoAnne Sellar, Megan Ellison, through her Annapurna Pictures, and Paul Thomas Anderson. The executive producers are Peter Heslop, Adam Somner, and Daniel Lupi. Chelsea Barnard and Jillian Longnecker are overseeing production for Annapurna.
Continuing their creative collaboration following 2007’s There Will Be Blood, which earned Mr. Day-Lewis the Best Actor Academy Award, Mr. Anderson will once again explore a distinctive milieu of the 20th century.
- 2/1/2017
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
After having “Burn the Witch” on repeat for the last few days, you can now add another new Radiohead song to your playlist. As rumored thanks to a slip-up, Paul Thomas Anderson has directed a new music video for “Daydreaming,” from the upcoming album set to be released this Sunday, May 8 at 2 p.m. Est.
The six-minute video finds the Inherent Vice director following Thom Yorke through a dreamscape and a variety of locations, from a hospital to a home to a beach to a mountain. Check out the video below and for more on PTA’s filmography, watch a recent, excellent 2.5-hour video series on his entire career, including his Jonny Greenwood collaborations.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Producers: Sara Murphy, Albert Chi, Erica Frauman
Editor: Andy Jurgensen
Production Companies: Ghoulardi Film Company, m ss ng p eces
Assistant Directors: Adam Somner, Trevor Tavares
Gaffer: Michael Bauman
Key Grip: Jim Kwiatkowski...
The six-minute video finds the Inherent Vice director following Thom Yorke through a dreamscape and a variety of locations, from a hospital to a home to a beach to a mountain. Check out the video below and for more on PTA’s filmography, watch a recent, excellent 2.5-hour video series on his entire career, including his Jonny Greenwood collaborations.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Producers: Sara Murphy, Albert Chi, Erica Frauman
Editor: Andy Jurgensen
Production Companies: Ghoulardi Film Company, m ss ng p eces
Assistant Directors: Adam Somner, Trevor Tavares
Gaffer: Michael Bauman
Key Grip: Jim Kwiatkowski...
- 5/6/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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