Once the "Oppenheimer" hype dies down, you'll likely hear more of that nagging criticism of the movie being about men talking in offices and classrooms. There's no doubt large chunks of the film's three-hour runtime focus on Cillian Murphy's J. Robert Oppenheimer conversing with political leaders and his colleagues as they work their way towards creating the atom bomb. But by his own admission, Christopher Nolan's approach to filmmaking almost necessitates this kind of verbosity. As the filmmaker previously told BAFTA:
"I chose to take the path of incorporating that desire for a layered approach into the narrative itself, into the story. And so I've made films that have some ambiguity to them, or some layering to them narratively, so that if you see them a second time you're going to watch them a slightly different way. And that was my approach. There are other filmmakers who approached...
"I chose to take the path of incorporating that desire for a layered approach into the narrative itself, into the story. And so I've made films that have some ambiguity to them, or some layering to them narratively, so that if you see them a second time you're going to watch them a slightly different way. And that was my approach. There are other filmmakers who approached...
- 8/5/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
“Licorice Pizza” marks the ninth collaboration between Paul Thomas Anderson and costume designer Mark Bridges, and the third one set in the ’70s in the Los Angeles area after “Boogie Nights” (1997) and “Inherent Vice” (2014) — but all three films’ tones and styles could not be more dissimilar. A coming-of-age story, “Licorice Pizza” takes place in 1973 San Fernando Valley and follows the misadventures of Gary (Cooper Hoffman), an entrepreneurial 15-year-old who becomes infatuated with 25-year-old Alana (Alana Haim).
“When I work with Paul, I just try to be as specific as possible to the year, time and place,” Bridges tells Gold Derby (watch the exclusive video interview above). “And so other ’70s projects were different — 1970 for ‘Inherent Vice,’ so there were more references to ’60s fashion. In ‘Boogie Nights,’ that started in ’77, which was very different from ’70. [For ‘Licorice Pizza’] we looked at a lot of yearbooks, we looked at primary research from...
“When I work with Paul, I just try to be as specific as possible to the year, time and place,” Bridges tells Gold Derby (watch the exclusive video interview above). “And so other ’70s projects were different — 1970 for ‘Inherent Vice,’ so there were more references to ’60s fashion. In ‘Boogie Nights,’ that started in ’77, which was very different from ’70. [For ‘Licorice Pizza’] we looked at a lot of yearbooks, we looked at primary research from...
- 1/11/2022
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
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- 1/5/2022
- MUBI
Having edited Paul Thomas Anderson’s Junun, Anima, and his Haim and Radiohead music videos, as well as working on the editing team for Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread, it was a more than natural fit when Andy Jurgensen was tasked with editing his first narrative feature for the director. With a defined yet still wholly surprising structure, Licorice Pizza is a feat in momentum-building and Jurgensen’s exemplary editing results in each beat––whether hilarious, emotional, stressful, or slyly distributing––hitting just right.
With the film now opening wider, we were pleased to chat with the editor about how he came aboard the project, finding great use out of deleted footage, the tension of the Bradley Cooper setpiece, the soundtrack, the hardest sequence to edit, the reactions to the film, and much more.
The Film Stage: I know you edited PTA’s Haim & Radiohead music videos, Anima, Junun, and...
With the film now opening wider, we were pleased to chat with the editor about how he came aboard the project, finding great use out of deleted footage, the tension of the Bradley Cooper setpiece, the soundtrack, the hardest sequence to edit, the reactions to the film, and much more.
The Film Stage: I know you edited PTA’s Haim & Radiohead music videos, Anima, Junun, and...
- 12/22/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Paul Thomas Anderson has always been fascinated with pretenders, with people who use their assumed gigs and personas as a shield for their own deep insecurities. From Tom Cruise’s alpha guru in Magnolia to Philip Seymour Hoffman’s blustering mystic in The Master, Josh Brolin’s cop in Inherent Vice to Paul Dano’s preacher in There Will Be Blood, these characters that circle and attempt to entrap Anderson’s putative protagonists often end up the most fascinating elements, teasing out a canniness and resourcefulness that resonates with his view of American self-actualization.
That recurring use of hucksters ascends to the level of text with Licorice Pizza, which returns to the sunny San Fernando Valley setting from the first half of his career. Set in 1973, the story follows Gary Valentine, a 15-year-old child actor and voracious entrepreneur, and Alana Kane (Alana Haim), a prospectless 25-year-old who transfixes Gary when...
That recurring use of hucksters ascends to the level of text with Licorice Pizza, which returns to the sunny San Fernando Valley setting from the first half of his career. Set in 1973, the story follows Gary Valentine, a 15-year-old child actor and voracious entrepreneur, and Alana Kane (Alana Haim), a prospectless 25-year-old who transfixes Gary when...
- 11/23/2021
- by Ryan Swen
- The Film Stage
In a beautiful, bittersweet passing of the torch, Paul Thomas Anderson has cast Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son, Cooper Hoffman, in what will be the lead role of his new 1970s-set film. Currently shooting under the working title Soggy Bottom, set photos surfaced recently featuring Alana Haim, also making her screen debut, next to the newcomer, who is now confirmed to be Cooper Hoffman, THR reports.
Is that…Philip Seymour Hoffman's son in the new PTA? pic.twitter.com/lZoj0UtGk9
— Erik Anderson (@awards_watch) August 30, 2020
In a career full of incredible accomplishments, among Philip Seymour Hoffman’s finest work was his collaborations with PTA, including Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, and The Master. The son of Mimi O’Donnell and Philip Seymour Hoffman, the 17-year-old Cooper Hoffman will play a high school student and child actor in the film, marking his debut performance.
It’s also been confirmed...
Is that…Philip Seymour Hoffman's son in the new PTA? pic.twitter.com/lZoj0UtGk9
— Erik Anderson (@awards_watch) August 30, 2020
In a career full of incredible accomplishments, among Philip Seymour Hoffman’s finest work was his collaborations with PTA, including Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, and The Master. The son of Mimi O’Donnell and Philip Seymour Hoffman, the 17-year-old Cooper Hoffman will play a high school student and child actor in the film, marking his debut performance.
It’s also been confirmed...
- 9/3/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
When it was announced Paul Thomas Anderson was making a high school movie, one may have conjured ideas of his take on The Breakfast Club, Dazed and Confused, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, or Superbad. As the director tends to do, those expectations will be wildly flipped. As the first set photos from the 1970s, San Fernando Valley-set film have unveiled, the scope will be much larger than just a high school story and now more details have arrived today that confirm some rumors that were floating around, along with a major bit of casting.
Writer-director-actor-editor Benny Safdie––the brother of Josh Safdie––seems to have continued his shared bond with Paul Thomas Anderson as it pertains to directing Adam Sandler’s greatest performances. Set photos below reveal that the Uncut Gems co-director and Good Time star has landed the politician role of Wachs, which has been rumored to be one...
Writer-director-actor-editor Benny Safdie––the brother of Josh Safdie––seems to have continued his shared bond with Paul Thomas Anderson as it pertains to directing Adam Sandler’s greatest performances. Set photos below reveal that the Uncut Gems co-director and Good Time star has landed the politician role of Wachs, which has been rumored to be one...
- 8/30/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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