The recent release of Paul Thomas Anderson's eighth narrative feature film Phantom Thread has the film world abuzz. No one is more excited than us here at The Cinematologists as it gives us a long-awaited chance to go deep on one of our favourite filmmakers and someone we believe to be one of, if not the greatest American filmmakers currently working.
This first episode of the new season sees Neil and Dario discuss Anderson's place in the pantheon, his unique talents and style, and the immediate impact of his latest work - so different and yet so in line with his previous films. It also precedes a forthcoming bonus episode on Inherent Vice that has been gathering dust in the Cinematologists vault awaiting the right time to see the light of day.
For now though, here's the episode:
The release of Phantom Thread has seen some great writing and discussion emerge on the film and Anderson's career and films. Here are some of our favourites on the film and his work:
The Film Comment Podcast - Violet Lucca and Sheila O'Malley discuss Phantom Thread
Melissa Anderson on Phantom Thread for 4Columns
The Curzon Film Podcast - Jake Cunningham, Josh Slater-Williams and Dr. Irene Musemeci on Phantom Thread
Recent 2024 Releases (w/Dario!)
Sometimes I Think About Dying (w/director Rachel Lambert)
Professor Alison Peirse (Doing Women's Global Horror Film History)
Pouring Water on Troubled Oil (w/director Nariman Massoumi)
Your Fat Friend (w/ director Jeanie Finlay)
Our Cinematic 2023
On New Release Apathy
BONUS: Toby Amies in the Court of the Crimson King
BONUS: Prof. Neil Fox on Film Practice and Pedagogy
Film Podcasting w/ Rico Gagliano from The Mubi Podcast
Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed (w/ Dir. Stephen Kijak)
Apocalypse Clown (w/Producer James Dean)
London Film Festival 2023
A Year in a Field (w/director Christopher Morris and producer Denzil Monk)
On Cinematic Pleasure
Laura Mulvey (Falmouth Film Weekend: 1978 Revisited)
Plan 75
Boys and Men in Close and Godland
Demons of the Mind: Cinema and Psychiatry in the Long 1960s
The Films of Alice Diop
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