Barry Egan is not a particularly easygoing guy. The protagonist of Paul Thomas Anderson's 2002 film "Punch-Drunk Love" is socially awkward, highly anxious, and clearly has trouble regulating his emotions in a healthy way. When he calls a phone sex line, it's because he's lonely and just wants to connect with another person. But as played by Adam Sandler, who was exclusively known for his comedic work until then, Barry becomes someone the audience roots for. Since we have a history with Sandler as someone who has made us laugh, we're perhaps more endeared to this eccentric character than we might've been otherwise.
Anderson knew this -- he was dead set on casting Sandler in "Punch-Drunk Love" from the moment he came up with the concept -- and saw potential in Sandler that no other director had seen at that point. By hiring him to star in this small, bizarre romance,...
Anderson knew this -- he was dead set on casting Sandler in "Punch-Drunk Love" from the moment he came up with the concept -- and saw potential in Sandler that no other director had seen at that point. By hiring him to star in this small, bizarre romance,...
- 3/4/2024
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
Opera Man. Barry Egan. Billy Madison. Happy Gilmore. Dracula. Howard Ratner. Leo the Lizard??
If that last name doesn't sound familiar to you, it might very soon. As you can likely tell from the names preceding it, Adam Sandler has portrayed an impressively large number of memorable characters on-screen throughout his career. Although he's most well-known for his comedies (resulting in his being lauded when he takes on a dramatic project such as "Punch Drunk Love" or "Uncut Gems"), even a cursory glance at Sandler's resumé reveals his impressive range of projects in a variety of genres and mediums.
One of those mediums is animation, as best seen in "Eight Crazy Nights" or his successful "Hotel Transylvania" franchise. This November, Sandler hopes Leo the Lizard will become his newest triumph within the medium, when "Leo" premieres on Netflix. "Leo" isn't a mere voice acting gig for Sandler, either; he's a...
If that last name doesn't sound familiar to you, it might very soon. As you can likely tell from the names preceding it, Adam Sandler has portrayed an impressively large number of memorable characters on-screen throughout his career. Although he's most well-known for his comedies (resulting in his being lauded when he takes on a dramatic project such as "Punch Drunk Love" or "Uncut Gems"), even a cursory glance at Sandler's resumé reveals his impressive range of projects in a variety of genres and mediums.
One of those mediums is animation, as best seen in "Eight Crazy Nights" or his successful "Hotel Transylvania" franchise. This November, Sandler hopes Leo the Lizard will become his newest triumph within the medium, when "Leo" premieres on Netflix. "Leo" isn't a mere voice acting gig for Sandler, either; he's a...
- 10/12/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
Guillermo del Toro, the acclaimed director of The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Hellboy, has recently expressed his admiration for Punch-Drunk Love, a 2002 romantic comedy film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Adam Sandler. Del Toro tweeted that Punch-Drunk Love was his favorite PTA film and praised the score by Jon Brion, which he said he had been playing “in a loop” for weeks.
Punch-Drunk Love tells the story of Barry Egan, a socially awkward and emotionally unstable man who falls in love with Lena Leonard, a woman who accepts him for who he is. Barry also has to deal with a phone sex scam, a violent encounter with his sisters, and a frequent flyer miles scheme. The film is widely regarded as one of Sandler’s best performances and a departure from his usual comedic roles.
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Punch-Drunk Love tells the story of Barry Egan, a socially awkward and emotionally unstable man who falls in love with Lena Leonard, a woman who accepts him for who he is. Barry also has to deal with a phone sex scam, a violent encounter with his sisters, and a frequent flyer miles scheme. The film is widely regarded as one of Sandler’s best performances and a departure from his usual comedic roles.
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Del Toro is not the only filmmaker...
- 9/26/2023
- by CineArticles Editorial Team
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Coming off the heels of the epic masterpiece that was 1999's "Magnolia," Paul Thomas Anderson needed a break. The massive ensemble casts of both that movie and 1997's "Boogie Nights" (which featured many of the same collaborators) as well as their massive respective runtimes had signified Anderson as a director of note. They were loaded with (sometimes literally) explosive scenes, teary confessions, a beautiful eye for San Fernando Valley views, and unforgettable widescreen images. His follow-up, "Punch-Drunk Love," would simultaneously have Anderson refining his established style and also abandoning his comfort zone.
Where Anderson took his talents next was perhaps the most shocking thing a director of his reputation and critical praise could do: make an Adam Sandler romantic comedy. The actor was often accused of polluting the multiplex with lowbrow, dumbed-down slapstick. The idea that a director known for quirky, literate ensemble epics would pair off with Sandler was...
Where Anderson took his talents next was perhaps the most shocking thing a director of his reputation and critical praise could do: make an Adam Sandler romantic comedy. The actor was often accused of polluting the multiplex with lowbrow, dumbed-down slapstick. The idea that a director known for quirky, literate ensemble epics would pair off with Sandler was...
- 1/15/2023
- by Anthony Crislip
- Slash Film
The harmonium in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2002 film "Punch-Drunk Love" enters the movie in a dramatic and unexplained fashion. It's just before dawn next to a wholesale warehouse somewhere in the San Fernando Valley. Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) has stepped out into the warm darkness to drink his coffee. A red truck down the street is approaching at incredible speeds. Unexpectedly, the truck — perhaps striking something — is flipped into the air, and violently cartwheels down the street, spraying shards of metal and plastic all over the road. A second vehicle, a red taxi van, pulls up next to the carnage, right in front of Barry. The door opens and a faceless man places a harmonium on the sidewalk. The taxi speeds off. In less than a minute, everything is quiet again.
Barry takes the harmonium inside.
Barry is an angry, lonely man who will spend the span of "Punch-Drunk Love" awkwardly beginning a sweet,...
Barry takes the harmonium inside.
Barry is an angry, lonely man who will spend the span of "Punch-Drunk Love" awkwardly beginning a sweet,...
- 1/14/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Come on Academy, put Adam Sandler in the game!
The Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations announced on Wednesday yielded 25 first-time nominees across film and television. Among them was Sandler, who, in Jeremiah Zagar’s “Hustle,” has a dramatic turn as a basketball scout who discovers a street ball player in Spain. With AMPAS voting opening tomorrow, he’s peaking at the perfect time to garner his first Oscar nod for best actor.
Outside of his Independent Spirit Award win for “Uncut Gems” in 2020, the SAG nod was Sandler’s first major acting recognition of his 35-year career. Released by Netflix in early June, “Hustle” would have been discarded if it was with any other studio for awards prospects. But the streaming giant has made Sandler, and the movie, one of its top priorities along with a slate that includes more industry-friendly titles including war drama “All Quiet on the Western Front,...
The Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations announced on Wednesday yielded 25 first-time nominees across film and television. Among them was Sandler, who, in Jeremiah Zagar’s “Hustle,” has a dramatic turn as a basketball scout who discovers a street ball player in Spain. With AMPAS voting opening tomorrow, he’s peaking at the perfect time to garner his first Oscar nod for best actor.
Outside of his Independent Spirit Award win for “Uncut Gems” in 2020, the SAG nod was Sandler’s first major acting recognition of his 35-year career. Released by Netflix in early June, “Hustle” would have been discarded if it was with any other studio for awards prospects. But the streaming giant has made Sandler, and the movie, one of its top priorities along with a slate that includes more industry-friendly titles including war drama “All Quiet on the Western Front,...
- 1/11/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Who would have thought that the obnoxious man-child from Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and Saturday Night Live would turn in one of the greatest performances ever captured on celluloid? As director Todd Field sees it, the performance by Adam Sandler in 2002’s Punch-Drunk Love is one of the best performances ever.
In a recent interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Todd Field expressed his respect for Adam Sandler, particularly his Golden Globe-nominated performance as Barry Egan. “The first film of Adam’s I ever saw was Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch Drunk Love…It floored me. It really is one of the great screen performances–for me–of all time.” Field added, “He has an incredible range; there’s no one like him.”
Todd Field went on to cite some of the major filmmakers that Adam Sandler has collaborated with, including James L. Brooks (2004’s Spanglish), Noah Baumbach (2017’s...
In a recent interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Todd Field expressed his respect for Adam Sandler, particularly his Golden Globe-nominated performance as Barry Egan. “The first film of Adam’s I ever saw was Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch Drunk Love…It floored me. It really is one of the great screen performances–for me–of all time.” Field added, “He has an incredible range; there’s no one like him.”
Todd Field went on to cite some of the major filmmakers that Adam Sandler has collaborated with, including James L. Brooks (2004’s Spanglish), Noah Baumbach (2017’s...
- 1/5/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Lots of actors make a living starring in mostly bad movies, but few do it on such a scale and level of success as Adam Sandler. The frustrating thing is, we all know how talented he can be when he feels like it, at least compared to other bad movie regulars like, say, Gerard Butler. You always know what you're going to get with Butler, that steady level of grimacing B-movie badness, and he's never going to suddenly wrong-foot you with an Oscar-worthy performance before going back to stabbing people to death with pencils.
Sandler certainly has the talent, but he just can't be bothered to use it most of the time. Maybe he doesn't feel the need when his special brand of lowbrow humor has earned him a loyal fanbase all over the world. That was something Netflix was keen to get a slice of when they signed him...
Sandler certainly has the talent, but he just can't be bothered to use it most of the time. Maybe he doesn't feel the need when his special brand of lowbrow humor has earned him a loyal fanbase all over the world. That was something Netflix was keen to get a slice of when they signed him...
- 9/16/2022
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
Paul Thomas Anderson is a filmmaking prodigy. His second film, "Boogie Nights," is a triumph in the same vein as "Citizen Kane" or "Jaws," a work made by a young artist with the confidence and skill of a much older one (PTA was 26 when he directed it). However, just because Anderson makes filmmaking look easy doesn't mean it always is. According to the man himself, one of his more challenging projects was "Punch-Drunk Love."
Instead of an ensemble like "Boogie Nights" or "Magnolia," "Punch-Drunk Love" zeroed in on a single character, much like Anderson's debut feature, "Hard Eight." While his more recent films have epic, multi-hour running times, "Punch-Drunk Love" runs a tight 95 minutes. It was also his first movie unconcerned with father-son relationships; instead, the film is a love story.
Why did he make such a big left turn? According to Anderson, "I felt like I'd become pretty good...
Instead of an ensemble like "Boogie Nights" or "Magnolia," "Punch-Drunk Love" zeroed in on a single character, much like Anderson's debut feature, "Hard Eight." While his more recent films have epic, multi-hour running times, "Punch-Drunk Love" runs a tight 95 minutes. It was also his first movie unconcerned with father-son relationships; instead, the film is a love story.
Why did he make such a big left turn? According to Anderson, "I felt like I'd become pretty good...
- 9/11/2022
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Even though the biggest actors often have to go through countless auditions for certain movies, on occasion, the film and its director hand pick their very own leading star. And that’s exactly what happened with Adam Sandler in 2002’s kooky black comedy Punch-Drunk Love.
Speaking recently on the SmartLess podcast, the award-winning 54 year-old – affectionately dubbed the Sandman by his fans – went into candid detail about the process of landing such a pivotal role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s heartwarming comedy-romance. And apparently, it all began with the one and only Tom Cruise.
“I met Tom Cruise when Nicole Kidman did SNL,” the actor said. “Cruise had a Yankee cap dipped down low, and he looked up, and I was, like, in love with him. Tom called me up, and he says, ‘I’m doing a movie with my friend Paul, and he’s interested in doing a movie with you.
Speaking recently on the SmartLess podcast, the award-winning 54 year-old – affectionately dubbed the Sandman by his fans – went into candid detail about the process of landing such a pivotal role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s heartwarming comedy-romance. And apparently, it all began with the one and only Tom Cruise.
“I met Tom Cruise when Nicole Kidman did SNL,” the actor said. “Cruise had a Yankee cap dipped down low, and he looked up, and I was, like, in love with him. Tom called me up, and he says, ‘I’m doing a movie with my friend Paul, and he’s interested in doing a movie with you.
- 10/17/2020
- by Dylan Chaundy
- We Got This Covered
Fiona Apple is the subject of a new profile in The New Yorker to mark the upcoming release of her new album, “Fetch the Bolt Cutters.” Speaking to writer Emily Nussbaum, the musician relives her three-year relationship with Paul Thomas Anderson, who Apple describes as “coldly critical, contemptuous.” The two met in 1997, the same year Anderson became a breakout director with “Boogie Nights.” Both Apple and Anderson would recreationally use cocaine and ecstasy, but Apple says a painful night hanging out with Anderson and fellow director Quentin Tarantino resulted in her quitting the former substance.
As Nussbaum writers: “[Apple] had quit cocaine years earlier, after spending ‘one excruciating night’ at Quentin Tarantino’s house, listening to him and Anderson brag. ‘Every addict should just get locked in a private movie theatre with Q.T. and P.T.A. on coke, and they’ll never want to do it again,’ she joked.
As Nussbaum writers: “[Apple] had quit cocaine years earlier, after spending ‘one excruciating night’ at Quentin Tarantino’s house, listening to him and Anderson brag. ‘Every addict should just get locked in a private movie theatre with Q.T. and P.T.A. on coke, and they’ll never want to do it again,’ she joked.
- 3/16/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
How ‘Uncut Gems’ and Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Punch-Drunk Love’ Function as Unlikely Companion Pieces
On the early afternoon of November 28, 2019, Josh and Benny Safdie celebrated Thanksgiving by sharing scenes of intense family dysfunction. Over the course of the afternoon, the Safdies’ official Twitter account posted a handful of .gifs from Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love. The first is a scene where Adam Sandler’s Barry Egan – having […]
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- 12/16/2019
- by Matthew Monagle
- Slash Film
Billy Joel is going to be a dad for the third time.
The 68-year-old singer is expecting his second child with wife Alexis Roderick, his rep confirms to Et.
Joel first revealed the news during an interview with the Belfast Telegraph last week, telling reporter Barry Egan that he and Roderick "are due next month."
“This one is pretty good. She sleeps through the night,” he said of his and Roderick's 2-year-old daughter, Della Rose. “I hope the next one will.”
Related: Christie Brinkley Sports John Mellencamp Shirt at Her Ex-Husband Billy Joel's Concert
“I hang out with her and watch her little wheels spin,” Joel continued of Della. “And she’s a hoot. She’s a funny kid. She loves to laugh. I like to make her laugh.”
The Grammy winner and Roderick married in 2015. Joel also shares 31-year-old daughter Alexa Ray Joel with his second wife, Christie Brinkley.
See more on Alexa...
The 68-year-old singer is expecting his second child with wife Alexis Roderick, his rep confirms to Et.
Joel first revealed the news during an interview with the Belfast Telegraph last week, telling reporter Barry Egan that he and Roderick "are due next month."
“This one is pretty good. She sleeps through the night,” he said of his and Roderick's 2-year-old daughter, Della Rose. “I hope the next one will.”
Related: Christie Brinkley Sports John Mellencamp Shirt at Her Ex-Husband Billy Joel's Concert
“I hang out with her and watch her little wheels spin,” Joel continued of Della. “And she’s a hoot. She’s a funny kid. She loves to laugh. I like to make her laugh.”
The Grammy winner and Roderick married in 2015. Joel also shares 31-year-old daughter Alexa Ray Joel with his second wife, Christie Brinkley.
See more on Alexa...
- 10/18/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Billy Joel is going to be a dad for the third time.
The 68-year-old singer is expecting his second child with wife Alexis Roderick, his rep confirms to Et.
Joel first revealed the news during an interview with the Belfast Telegraph last week, telling reporter Barry Egan that he and Roderick "are due next month."
“This one is pretty good. She sleeps through the night,” he said of his and Roderick's 2-year-old daughter, Della Rose. “I hope the next one will.”
Related: Christie Brinkley Sports John Mellencamp Shirt at Her Ex-Husband Billy Joel's Concert
“I hang out with her and watch her little wheels spin,” Joel continued of Della. “And she’s a hoot. She’s a funny kid. She loves to laugh. I like to make her laugh.”
The Grammy winner and Roderick married in 2015. Joel also shares 31-year-old daughter Alexa Ray Joel with his second wife, Christie Brinkley.
See more on Alexa...
The 68-year-old singer is expecting his second child with wife Alexis Roderick, his rep confirms to Et.
Joel first revealed the news during an interview with the Belfast Telegraph last week, telling reporter Barry Egan that he and Roderick "are due next month."
“This one is pretty good. She sleeps through the night,” he said of his and Roderick's 2-year-old daughter, Della Rose. “I hope the next one will.”
Related: Christie Brinkley Sports John Mellencamp Shirt at Her Ex-Husband Billy Joel's Concert
“I hang out with her and watch her little wheels spin,” Joel continued of Della. “And she’s a hoot. She’s a funny kid. She loves to laugh. I like to make her laugh.”
The Grammy winner and Roderick married in 2015. Joel also shares 31-year-old daughter Alexa Ray Joel with his second wife, Christie Brinkley.
See more on Alexa...
- 10/18/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the most revered American filmmakers of the last 20 years in part because he’s so unclassifiable. Working in a range of genres while tackling subjects that skew from anger management to American capitalism, religion and porn, Anderson has built a filmography distinguished by its unpredictability — and the sheer originality he brings to each new effort. Beyond the stories that distinguish his movies are the many ways in which they immerse viewers in fully defined worlds.
Every Anderson movie is an absorbing experience loaded with strange, funny, and shocking moments, all of which speak to the agenda of an artist keen on pushing the medium beyond its most familiar forms.
Read More: What Paul Thomas Anderson Movies Really Have to Say About Finding Purpose in Life — Watch
There may be no better way to survey the range of achievements in Anderson’s work than to...
Every Anderson movie is an absorbing experience loaded with strange, funny, and shocking moments, all of which speak to the agenda of an artist keen on pushing the medium beyond its most familiar forms.
Read More: What Paul Thomas Anderson Movies Really Have to Say About Finding Purpose in Life — Watch
There may be no better way to survey the range of achievements in Anderson’s work than to...
- 6/26/2017
- by Eric Kohn, Kate Erbland, Jude Dry, Graham Winfrey and Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
A high-school dropout living with his alcoholic mother. A volatile World War II veteran struggling to assimilate to his old life. A viscously driven oil man looking to turn his fortune around. The films of Paul Thomas Anderson may differ in plot and setting, but his characters all seem to be united in their desperate hunt for change. Some transform for the best, others for the worst, and it’s where this need for change develops and how it drives our character’s sense of self that Anderson’s filmography is obsessed with.
Read More: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Untitled London Fashion Film: Daniel Day-Lewis Takes Center Stage in New Set Pictures
In an incredible new video essay, published by Jack’s Movie Reviews earlier this month (via The Film Stage), Anderson’s exploration of change and purpose is put under a microscope and explored thoroughly. “Everybody has a chance to change their lives,...
Read More: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Untitled London Fashion Film: Daniel Day-Lewis Takes Center Stage in New Set Pictures
In an incredible new video essay, published by Jack’s Movie Reviews earlier this month (via The Film Stage), Anderson’s exploration of change and purpose is put under a microscope and explored thoroughly. “Everybody has a chance to change their lives,...
- 3/21/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
We are officially in the year of a new Paul Thomas Anderson film — a re-team with his There Will Be Blood star Daniel Day-Lewis, no less — but as it’ll be a bit of time until we actually get to see it, we’re looking elsewhere to help with the wait. Following a 2.5-hour series, a new video essay has now arrived to help satiate our ongoing curiosity with the director’s films. If there is one unifying theme in the seven narrative films of PTA, it’s the search for purpose in life, covered in a variety aspects in a new 22-minute video essay.
“I don’t get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing – that around the world everybody’s after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day,” the director once said. Indeed,...
“I don’t get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing – that around the world everybody’s after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day,” the director once said. Indeed,...
- 3/20/2017
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Breezy yet tight, severe but affecting, Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love is the confounding genius' mini masterpiece. Shot through with affection and pathos to spare, the fact that the entire picture wears its sensitivities on its sleeves benefits the sly central conceit, that this is Anderson's Adam Sandler movie. Prone to fits of repressed sexuality and pent-up anger, Sandler's Barry Egan is a frightened little puppy dog in a nice blue suit. He mumbles hesitantly through life, his desire to get away more than subtly hinted at in the story. Sandler's oblong headed appearance and established man-child shtick make him perfect for the part. But beyond the sheer unlikeliness of Adam Sandler starring in a P.T. Anderson flick, there's the lark of Anderson...
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- 11/18/2016
- Screen Anarchy
You know it’s a great day when Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Punch Drunk Love” finally arrives on The Criterion Collection. Both DVD and Blu-ray versions of the unconventional romance are now available to purchase, and the sets include some pretty incredible exclusives, including a restored HD digital transfer of the film, supervised by Anderson himself, a handful of deleted scenes and an essay by Miranda July. Also included is an interview with Jon Brion, the composer behind the film’s landmark score.
Read More: Watch: 20-Minute Video Essay Explores Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Punch-Drunk Love,’ Early Shorts & Comedy Sketches
At the time of the film’s production, Brion was known for his work with music artists like Rufus Wainwright, Aimee Mann and Fiona Apple. He worked closely with Anderson to craft the unique score of the film, which mixes passionate orchestral melodies with percussive dissonance to evoke the push...
Read More: Watch: 20-Minute Video Essay Explores Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Punch-Drunk Love,’ Early Shorts & Comedy Sketches
At the time of the film’s production, Brion was known for his work with music artists like Rufus Wainwright, Aimee Mann and Fiona Apple. He worked closely with Anderson to craft the unique score of the film, which mixes passionate orchestral melodies with percussive dissonance to evoke the push...
- 11/15/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
It's November – a.k.a. when you need something good to stream after sneaking away from the family Thanksgiving dinner once the conversation turns to politics. (How bizarre to think that the selections below will debut in a post-election world.) Luckily, plenty of excellent films and a handful of intriguing new shows will grace the wi-fi signals this month – including the Citizen Kane of Vegas stripper movies, Richard Linklater's 12-years-in-the-making coming-of-age experiment, what may be the greatest Rocky movie of them all (hint: his name is not in the...
- 11/1/2016
- Rollingstone.com
The opening shot of the film can last in your mind longer than the film itself. When I think of my personal favorites, Jonathan Glazer’s “Birth” comes to mind, with the sprawling, overhead shots of Central Park, while Paul Thomas Anderson’s entire catalog boasts lovely and unforgettable beginnings, from Adam Sandler’s eccentric Barry Egan at the back corner of the perfect mise en scene in “Punch Drunk Love,” to the series of unfortunate events in “Magnolia” clarifying the significance of chance in the film. Read More: Retrospective: The Directorial Films Of Orson Welles In this new video essay from Cinefix, they’ve broken down the top 10 opening scenes (in their humble opinion) with a few guest appearances from films that came close to making the cut. The bottom half of the list is a no-brainer, featuring the taut, inverted shots focused on the cowboy in a quandary in “The Searchers,...
- 1/20/2016
- by Samantha Vacca
- The Playlist
While Jonny Greenwood is currently Paul Thomas Anderson's go-to composer collaborator, in his early days it was Jon Brion who filled that role. He tuned up "Hard Eight" and "Magnolia," but I'd argue it's his work on "Punch-Drunk Love" which might have been his best for Anderson. He perfectly captured the swooning strains of romance that filled the story, as well the crippling world of Barry Egan that lights the fuse of his anger, that is mellowed by the arrival of Lena Leonard. Now, the spotlight is being shone on the score with a truly unique screening. Read More: Watch Paul Thomas Anderson-Directed Music Video For Joanna Newsom's "Divers" Bam has announced that Sony and Anderson have created a new, scoreless print of "Punch-Drunk Love" that will screen this spring, accompanied by a performance of the score by the 40-person strong Wordless Music Orchestra, conducted by Ryan McAdams.
- 12/10/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
It has not been an easy week. At the start of the week, we had our editorial meeting here at HitFix, as we do every Monday, to talk about both the week ahead and longer-term projects as well. For fairly obvious reasons, there was a fair amount of talk about Valentine's Day content, and I mentioned a few different ideas that I might write about, including one that I'll end up publishing at some point about Steve Martin. But even as I pitched a few ideas, I found myself uncomfortable with the entire idea of writing about romantic films right now. Honestly, I was hoping to spend this week with my head down and then just sail right through this weekend without writing about love at all, because for the first time in my adult life, I am no longer sure what I think about it. After all, I was with my wife for 14 years.
- 2/14/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
From the pool party dive in Boogie Nights inspired by Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba to the steering wheel scene in Hard Eight that so deftly recalls Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur, playing spot the reference with Paul Thomas Anderson is always fun. It is through these moments that we can fully appreciate the voracious depth at which one man is embroiled in his art; forever the immersed student despite his steady rise to master, yet with a constant, gleeful wish to share with us an unconditional love for the cinema – something that we can all identify with.
Of all Paul Thomas Anderson’s creations, one continues to standout as a jarring anomaly: that being Punch-Drunk Love, which does away with many of the recurring narrative themes (fathers and sons, abandonment, etc.) that can be traced throughout his work, and instead challenges the conventions of the romance genre – though, with...
Of all Paul Thomas Anderson’s creations, one continues to standout as a jarring anomaly: that being Punch-Drunk Love, which does away with many of the recurring narrative themes (fathers and sons, abandonment, etc.) that can be traced throughout his work, and instead challenges the conventions of the romance genre – though, with...
- 1/17/2015
- by Nicholas Page
- SoundOnSight
-Tara Aquino
If you’re planning on seeing Inherent Vice today, here’s a warning: You’ll need multiple viewings to wrap your mind around what happens. You can chalk it up to its equally dense source novel of the same name, written by Thomas Pynchon, or you can attribute that to its director, Paul Thomas Anderson, a man who seems to get a kick out of filling your brain with more than you can process at once.
Just take a look at the movies he’s got streaming on Netflix. All thinking-man’s dramas, the films wholly represent PTA’s signature style: at once brooding, beautiful, and baffling.
The Master (2012)
Photo Credit: Annapurna Pictures
Anderson took a risk with The Master, blowing open the world of Scientology in an inexplicit way. Here, Joaquin Phoenix plays Freddie Quell, a World War II veteran struggling with his Ptsd and reintegrating himself into society.
If you’re planning on seeing Inherent Vice today, here’s a warning: You’ll need multiple viewings to wrap your mind around what happens. You can chalk it up to its equally dense source novel of the same name, written by Thomas Pynchon, or you can attribute that to its director, Paul Thomas Anderson, a man who seems to get a kick out of filling your brain with more than you can process at once.
Just take a look at the movies he’s got streaming on Netflix. All thinking-man’s dramas, the films wholly represent PTA’s signature style: at once brooding, beautiful, and baffling.
The Master (2012)
Photo Credit: Annapurna Pictures
Anderson took a risk with The Master, blowing open the world of Scientology in an inexplicit way. Here, Joaquin Phoenix plays Freddie Quell, a World War II veteran struggling with his Ptsd and reintegrating himself into society.
- 12/12/2014
- by VH1
- VH1.com
-Tara Aquino
If you’re planning on seeing Inherent Vice today, here’s a warning: You’ll need multiple viewings to wrap your mind around what happens. You can chalk it up to its equally dense source novel of the same name, written by Thomas Pynchon, or you can attribute that to its director, Paul Thomas Anderson, a man who seems to get a kick out of filling your brain with more than you can process at once.
Just take a look at the movies he’s got streaming on Netflix. All thinking-man’s dramas, the films wholly represent PTA’s signature style: at once brooding, beautiful, and baffling.
The Master (2012)
Photo Credit: Annapurna Pictures
Anderson took a risk with The Master, blowing open the world of Scientology in an inexplicit way. Here, Joaquin Phoenix plays Freddie Quell, a World War II veteran struggling with his Ptsd and reintegrating himself into society.
If you’re planning on seeing Inherent Vice today, here’s a warning: You’ll need multiple viewings to wrap your mind around what happens. You can chalk it up to its equally dense source novel of the same name, written by Thomas Pynchon, or you can attribute that to its director, Paul Thomas Anderson, a man who seems to get a kick out of filling your brain with more than you can process at once.
Just take a look at the movies he’s got streaming on Netflix. All thinking-man’s dramas, the films wholly represent PTA’s signature style: at once brooding, beautiful, and baffling.
The Master (2012)
Photo Credit: Annapurna Pictures
Anderson took a risk with The Master, blowing open the world of Scientology in an inexplicit way. Here, Joaquin Phoenix plays Freddie Quell, a World War II veteran struggling with his Ptsd and reintegrating himself into society.
- 12/12/2014
- by VH1
- TheFabLife - Movies
In 2012, Owen Gleiberman wrote a piece for Entertainment Weekly explaining why he had fallen out of love with the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. In the article, Gleiberman shares his own thrill of discovering Boogie Nights at the 1997 Toronto Film Festival and the impact it had on him as a film critic; he then goes on to discuss his perceived problems with There Will Be Blood and why Anderson’s films no longer affect him the same way. I came across Gleiberman’s article recently during my struggle to detail my own relationship to Anderson’s films. Like Gleiberman, my first Anderson film was a revelation. As a manager for an independent theater in a small town, it was my job to assemble a 35mm print of Punch-Drunk Love during my Thursday shift and sit by myself through a midnight technical screening. I was tired after a long day and annoyed that I hadn’t been able...
- 9/2/2014
- by Matthew Monagle
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
It's a rather easy thing to do to question Adam Sandler's artistic integrity. However, when you're paid millions to act like a fool and visit places all over the world is it really fair to judge his decisionsc After all, unless he's making Punch-Drunk Love with Paul Thomas Anderson people find it rather easy to sh*t all over him, even if it's something of quality such as Reign Over Me and he was the least of the issues in Judd Apatow's Funny People, which seemed to get more of a pass because it was an Apatow movie than anything else. While this weekend his latest film Blended is another one of those "show up and get paid to have fun" kind of Sandler features, the kind I simply ignore and don't watch, the guy does have The Cobbler coming up for Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent) and Men,...
- 5/23/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
By the time he brought Revelation upon Los Angeles in the form of frog rain, Paul Thomas Anderson had already achieved a level of formal and thematic completeness in his body of work which is rare for any director, let alone one with only three films and thirty years of life behind him. Comparisons to prior masters were abundant: Anderson applied the restless dynamism of Scorsese’s roving camera and propulsive editing to Altman-esque ensemble narratives. He enfolded Jean Renoir’s empathetic view of human nature in playful, flamboyant set-pieces worthy of Orson Welles. And indeed Anderson’s earliest work, particularly “Boogie Nights” (1997), is arguably marred at times by a too-obvious impulse to both flaunt these influences and to do them one better. The development of his varied style, assembled at a young age from diverse antecedents, toward an apex in the divisive go-for-broke epic “Magnolia” (1999), reflected his own version...
- 6/11/2013
- by Jack Welch
- The Moving Arts Journal
"You're gonna die screaming, and I'm gonna watch." "I'm gonna punch you in the ovary. That's what I'm gonna do." "I must break you." "Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns." Some memorable movie threats induce chills. Others make us laugh. Check out this supercut of the 100 greatest movie threats of all time and see if you can identify all of the movies featured in it, and if your favorite movie threats made the cut. The supercut manages to capture some great movie moments, and some threats that remind us of just how bad things got when the threatener makes good on their promise. Among some of the great movie moments featured, O-Ren Ishii's boardroom scene from Kill Bill, Vol. 1, Barry Egan's "That's that" threat from Punch-Drunk Love and Gordie's face-off with Ace in Stand By Me ("No Ace. Just you."). There were some great...
- 3/5/2013
- cinemablend.com
During the press conference for Magnolia at the Cannes Film Festival, Paul Thomas Anderson announced his next project was going to be an Adam Sandler comedy. Everybody laughed. Nobody took him seriously; after all, this was the man who had directed two incredibly large and challenging films in Boogie Nights and Magnolia. Three years later when Punch Drunk Love was released, people were still surprised.
Admittedly, I have never liked Adam Sandler – I always found him annoying and grating – and I have never liked him in anything since this film either, which is a great shame as Paul Thomas Anderson manages to channel all of Sandler’s awfully annoying qualities into something powerful and unique. Sandler’s screen persona is childish, immature, crass and strange, but Anderson’s genius here is that he works all that into this darkly twisted romantic comedy-drama. With a great director and electric screenplay, Sandler...
Admittedly, I have never liked Adam Sandler – I always found him annoying and grating – and I have never liked him in anything since this film either, which is a great shame as Paul Thomas Anderson manages to channel all of Sandler’s awfully annoying qualities into something powerful and unique. Sandler’s screen persona is childish, immature, crass and strange, but Anderson’s genius here is that he works all that into this darkly twisted romantic comedy-drama. With a great director and electric screenplay, Sandler...
- 1/18/2013
- by Sam Moore
- Obsessed with Film
Punch-Drunk Love
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
2002, USA
There’s something about films like Punch-Drunk Love that can leave you feeling faintly bloated – not quite to the extent of a three-course meal; those sort of delicacies are saved for the epics (Ben Hur, anyone?), but more like an overflowing tank of water or speakers turned up past their limit. It has a frustrating tendency to push everything one step further than necessary, resulting in a production lasting little more than ninety minutes, but feeling closer to nine-hundred.
Adam Sandler is Barry Egan, an emotionally strained novelty toilet plunger salesman with suppressed dreams of making something of himself. His domineering sisters, of whom he has seven, appear to be the primary source of his obvious psychological trauma and infrequently violent episodes. A desperately lonely individual, Barry spends most of his spare time collecting free air miles...
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
2002, USA
There’s something about films like Punch-Drunk Love that can leave you feeling faintly bloated – not quite to the extent of a three-course meal; those sort of delicacies are saved for the epics (Ben Hur, anyone?), but more like an overflowing tank of water or speakers turned up past their limit. It has a frustrating tendency to push everything one step further than necessary, resulting in a production lasting little more than ninety minutes, but feeling closer to nine-hundred.
Adam Sandler is Barry Egan, an emotionally strained novelty toilet plunger salesman with suppressed dreams of making something of himself. His domineering sisters, of whom he has seven, appear to be the primary source of his obvious psychological trauma and infrequently violent episodes. A desperately lonely individual, Barry spends most of his spare time collecting free air miles...
- 12/2/2012
- by Jack Haworth
- SoundOnSight
*Disclaimer: the following is based on and an expansion of an article written by Peter Howell, the Toronto Star Movie Critic.
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a film of the lowest common denominator adds nothing to the institution of cinema. But as profiteers like Adam Sandler have already understood, when money speaks, truth is silenced, and nothing has been more vociferously profitable for him than his lowest common denominator filmmaking.
Under his very own moviemaking company, Happy Madison Productions, Sandler has been churning out the most banal drivel since its inception in 1999 (which was widely regarded by some to be a precursor to Y2K). His movies have subjected the world to his penchant for unadulterated nonsense and, in the vain of Sandleresque humour, a whole lot of poppycock.
But to the chagrin of film critics and to anyone with the slightest bit of sense or sensibility, his company not only exists,...
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a film of the lowest common denominator adds nothing to the institution of cinema. But as profiteers like Adam Sandler have already understood, when money speaks, truth is silenced, and nothing has been more vociferously profitable for him than his lowest common denominator filmmaking.
Under his very own moviemaking company, Happy Madison Productions, Sandler has been churning out the most banal drivel since its inception in 1999 (which was widely regarded by some to be a precursor to Y2K). His movies have subjected the world to his penchant for unadulterated nonsense and, in the vain of Sandleresque humour, a whole lot of poppycock.
But to the chagrin of film critics and to anyone with the slightest bit of sense or sensibility, his company not only exists,...
- 7/9/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Article by Dan Clark of Movie Revolt
Welcome to the latest installment of Streaming for Your Pleasure. In this series I look at films currently Streaming on Netflix that fit into a specific topic. This week I’m looking at comedic actors that attempt to reinvent themselves as serious actors. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but in the end you have to at least respect the attempt of someone trying new things. Listed are films that are successful enough to garner your attention for a watch or two. Feel free to list you thoughts, opinions, or ideas in the comment section below
Buried
Directed By: Rodrigo Cortes,
Written By: Chris Sparling
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Jose’ Luis Garcia Perez, and Robert Paterson
Synopsis: While on a job in Iraq, civilian contractor Paul Conroy is attacked and kidnapped, then awakens to find himself buried alive in the middle of...
Welcome to the latest installment of Streaming for Your Pleasure. In this series I look at films currently Streaming on Netflix that fit into a specific topic. This week I’m looking at comedic actors that attempt to reinvent themselves as serious actors. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but in the end you have to at least respect the attempt of someone trying new things. Listed are films that are successful enough to garner your attention for a watch or two. Feel free to list you thoughts, opinions, or ideas in the comment section below
Buried
Directed By: Rodrigo Cortes,
Written By: Chris Sparling
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Jose’ Luis Garcia Perez, and Robert Paterson
Synopsis: While on a job in Iraq, civilian contractor Paul Conroy is attacked and kidnapped, then awakens to find himself buried alive in the middle of...
- 5/15/2012
- by Guest
- Nerdly
Whether it’s busy turning your heart into one sweet dream, or simply taking your heart and make it sing I guess we can all be eternally grateful that we don’t have to be Michael Bolton fans to realise that love is, indeed, a most wonderful thing. And with February already upon us we have but two short weeks before Cupid’s amorous arrows once again pierce the hearts and minds of a loved-up nation and countless couples all around the world once again celebrate Valentines’ Day. So what better opportunity is there to celebrate true love in both the real and celluloid sense by taking a nostalgic look back at some of cinema’s most romantic couplings throughout the years?
But before we begin allow me to make the smallest of confessions …
You see, on the whole I Abhor modern romantic comedies and any combination of the words...
But before we begin allow me to make the smallest of confessions …
You see, on the whole I Abhor modern romantic comedies and any combination of the words...
- 2/1/2011
- by Nick Turk
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Michael C here from Serious Film.
The opening moments of Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love feature a prolonged stretch of silence broken by the crash of a truck doing flips down the street. In most movies this would be the cheapest trick in the book, giving the audience a jolt by hitting them with a loud noise out of nowhere. It doesn't feel that way here. The sound design in this scene, as in the rest of the movie, is wired to the off-kilter psyche of Adam Sandler's Barry Egan. He too harbors the constant threat of sudden violence under an ocean of surface calm.
The sound work on Punch-Drunk Love is a study in discomfort. It's not just a case of Jon Brion delivering yet another brilliantly original score, though there is no question he does that. It's the fact that the score doesn't behave according to...
The opening moments of Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love feature a prolonged stretch of silence broken by the crash of a truck doing flips down the street. In most movies this would be the cheapest trick in the book, giving the audience a jolt by hitting them with a loud noise out of nowhere. It doesn't feel that way here. The sound design in this scene, as in the rest of the movie, is wired to the off-kilter psyche of Adam Sandler's Barry Egan. He too harbors the constant threat of sudden violence under an ocean of surface calm.
The sound work on Punch-Drunk Love is a study in discomfort. It's not just a case of Jon Brion delivering yet another brilliantly original score, though there is no question he does that. It's the fact that the score doesn't behave according to...
- 11/26/2010
- by Michael C.
- FilmExperience
Punch-Drunk Love: Special Edition
The Film
Normally, Adam Sandler (Billy Madison, Funny People) does not impress me. Prior to 2002, I cannot think of one movie that he has been featured in that I feel compelled to revisit. His films are excessively idiotic and lack charm in all areas and I find that viewing them either kills my brain cells or gives me an hour and a half to contemplate suicide. When it was initially screened, Cannes honored Paul Thomas Anderson's (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) Punch-Drunk Love (2002) by giving it the best director award and I can see why. Anderson was the first director to get a performance out of Adam Sandler, and not just a good one, a great one.
Sandler stars as Barry Egan, a variation on his stereotypical sociopath in need of anger management therapy. However, what Anderson does is takes this trait and actually gives the...
The Film
Normally, Adam Sandler (Billy Madison, Funny People) does not impress me. Prior to 2002, I cannot think of one movie that he has been featured in that I feel compelled to revisit. His films are excessively idiotic and lack charm in all areas and I find that viewing them either kills my brain cells or gives me an hour and a half to contemplate suicide. When it was initially screened, Cannes honored Paul Thomas Anderson's (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) Punch-Drunk Love (2002) by giving it the best director award and I can see why. Anderson was the first director to get a performance out of Adam Sandler, and not just a good one, a great one.
Sandler stars as Barry Egan, a variation on his stereotypical sociopath in need of anger management therapy. However, what Anderson does is takes this trait and actually gives the...
- 11/23/2010
- by Drew Morton
Phillip Seymour Hoffman's screen persona has been his blessing and his curse. Through the course of over a decade, ranging from roles in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997), Todd Solantz's Happiness (1998) and Charlie Kaufman's underrated Synecdoche, New York (2008), Hoffman has made a career for himself as the slightly-overweight, baby-like, socially awkward man in search of love. His directorial debut, Jack Goes Boating, he stretches his talent only slightly, playing the same type but provides his adaptation of Bob Glaudini's off-Broadway play with a combination of visually arresting imagery and outstanding supporting performances. Unfortunately, the film, due both to the material's modesty and Hoffman playing safely in his comfort zone, is a quiet disappointment.
The film's serene tone is telegraphed from its opening moments. Jack (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), lies on his bed, taking deep breaths as the title card is superimposed: Jack Goes Boating. Essentially, we are...
The film's serene tone is telegraphed from its opening moments. Jack (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), lies on his bed, taking deep breaths as the title card is superimposed: Jack Goes Boating. Essentially, we are...
- 9/24/2010
- by Drew Morton
Every summer Adam Sandler and I have a little ritual. He makes a new movie, and I get myself secretly excited that somehow, in some small way, he will be able to tap into the greatness he found in his best role, eight years ago. And each summer there are moments, small glimpses, proof that he could do it again, but he somehow refuses. His best role is an obvious choice: as Barry Egan in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love (2002), because it's the only choice. And whatever he did to get there must have been too much work, too frightening, or cost too much.
Before 2002, Adam Sandler was a cult hero to teenage males and frat boys, and hardly anyone took him seriously, except possibly as an investment on another highly successful comedy. Movie critics certainly would never have admitted to liking him. (I'm personally rather fond of Michael Lehmann's Airheads,...
Before 2002, Adam Sandler was a cult hero to teenage males and frat boys, and hardly anyone took him seriously, except possibly as an investment on another highly successful comedy. Movie critics certainly would never have admitted to liking him. (I'm personally rather fond of Michael Lehmann's Airheads,...
- 6/24/2010
- by Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Cinematical
Robert here with another installment of my Modern Maestros series. This week one of America's best directors.
Maestro: Paul Thomas Anderson
Known For: Movies about unique individuals and takes on modern Americana.
Influences: A little bit from everywhere but first and foremost it’s all about Altman
Masterpieces: You could pick any film or films. For me it’s Magnolia and There Will Be Blood
Disasters: zero
Better than you remember: I know some people who aren’t enamored with Punch Drunk Love. They should be.
Awards: Nominated for five Oscars. Best Director in Berlin and Cannes.
Box Office: 40 million for There Will Be Blood. Who says Oscar nominations don’t help?
Favorite Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman appears in all of his films but for the most recent.
A lot of movies are about outsiders. If most films were about normal people leading normal lives, well, they wouldn’t be.
Maestro: Paul Thomas Anderson
Known For: Movies about unique individuals and takes on modern Americana.
Influences: A little bit from everywhere but first and foremost it’s all about Altman
Masterpieces: You could pick any film or films. For me it’s Magnolia and There Will Be Blood
Disasters: zero
Better than you remember: I know some people who aren’t enamored with Punch Drunk Love. They should be.
Awards: Nominated for five Oscars. Best Director in Berlin and Cannes.
Box Office: 40 million for There Will Be Blood. Who says Oscar nominations don’t help?
Favorite Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman appears in all of his films but for the most recent.
A lot of movies are about outsiders. If most films were about normal people leading normal lives, well, they wouldn’t be.
- 1/14/2010
- by Robert
- FilmExperience
With HeyUGuys recently posting the Top films of the Decade as voted by you the reader, I thought I would look back into noughties myself and do my own top 10 films of the last decade as I was a bit disappointed with a majority of the top 10 choices like Kill Bill, There will be Blood and Donnie Darko.
Searching for my Decadian film winners was a great experience, going through vast amount of films from the last 10 years (which has flown by) and picking my personal 10 favourite films. It was a difficult challenge choosing them and also coming up with my 10 runner up movies from each year as there were so many quality films to pick from and I had to make some difficult choices in letting some stunning films miss out like Children of Men, District 9, Hurt Locker, Let the Right one in, The Departed etc. And so here are my choices,...
Searching for my Decadian film winners was a great experience, going through vast amount of films from the last 10 years (which has flown by) and picking my personal 10 favourite films. It was a difficult challenge choosing them and also coming up with my 10 runner up movies from each year as there were so many quality films to pick from and I had to make some difficult choices in letting some stunning films miss out like Children of Men, District 9, Hurt Locker, Let the Right one in, The Departed etc. And so here are my choices,...
- 1/10/2010
- by Gary Phillips
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Aughts were a fantastic decade for love stories, but a lousy one for romantic comedies, though I suppose most decades are lousy where romantic comedies are concerned. Some of the highest-grossing rom coms of the decade included What Women Want, Bringing Down the House, Sex and the City, My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Mr. Deeds. You won't be seeing any of those on this list, and if I were tasked with assembling the top ten traditional romantic comedies of the decade, it'd likely be a blank post.
But there were some stellar love stories, a few of which have become not just my favorites of the decade, but of all time. A good love story is more than boy meets girl, loses girl, and then makes ridiculous speech at the airport. A great love story is as much about heartbreak and loss, as it is about two people coming together.
But there were some stellar love stories, a few of which have become not just my favorites of the decade, but of all time. A good love story is more than boy meets girl, loses girl, and then makes ridiculous speech at the airport. A great love story is as much about heartbreak and loss, as it is about two people coming together.
- 12/9/2009
- by Dustin Rowles
Ja from Mnpp here, chiming in with what I consider to be what that there title proclaims: the most romantic exchange of the Aughts. It came at us in 2002, the year Nat's literally just finished giving some love to and has moved on from. But Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love refuses to be pigeon-holed with such small simple concepts as time! All is fluid in the land of Barry Egan's erratic brain. Anyway, that exchange:
Barry: I'm lookin' at your face and I just wanna smash it. I just wanna fuckin' smash it with a sledgehammer and squeeze it. You're so pretty.
Lena: I want to chew your face, and I want to scoop out your eyes and I want to eat them and chew them and suck on them.
Barry: Ok. This is funny. This is nice.
If Eternal Sunshine hadn't come along two years later, PTA's...
Barry: I'm lookin' at your face and I just wanna smash it. I just wanna fuckin' smash it with a sledgehammer and squeeze it. You're so pretty.
Lena: I want to chew your face, and I want to scoop out your eyes and I want to eat them and chew them and suck on them.
Barry: Ok. This is funny. This is nice.
If Eternal Sunshine hadn't come along two years later, PTA's...
- 12/8/2009
- by JA
- FilmExperience
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