Paul Thomas Anderson

A portrait of the life and career of Robert Downey, Sr., the visionary American director who set the standard for counterculture comedy in the '60s and '70s.

7.4/10
9.7%

Set in 1970s San Fernando Valley, the film follows a high school student, who is also a successful child actor.

Music video directed by Paul Thomas Anderson from song ‘Man From The Magazine’ by HAIM.

In a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead stars in a mind-bending visual piece. Best played loud.

7.7/10
10%

Explore American cinema through the decades and the cultural, societal and political shifts that framed its evolution.

7.8/10

A short film crafted out of extra footage from Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread."

"Little of Your Love" is the second single off Haim's second album, Something to Tell You. It features the group line dancing with patrons at the Oil Can Harry's bar in Los Angeles.

Renowned British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock comes across Alma, a young, strong-willed woman, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover.

7.5/10
9.1%

HAIM performs 'Right Now' live in Valentine Recording Studios to the smooth, graceful camera movements of director Paul Thomas Anderson.

Three songs, shot live at Valentine Studios, making the album Something to Tell You.

7.6/10

Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead perform The Numbers, from record A Moon Shaped Pool.

In this music video for Radiohead's new single, singer Thom Yorke traverses a shifting landscape of hall-ways, houses, department stores and mountains in search of an unknown destination. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

In this music video, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, singer Thom Yorke traverses a shifting landscape of hall-ways, houses, department stores and mountains in search of an unknown destination.

5.5/10

A promotional video for Radiohead's 2016 song "The Numbers."

The music video for Radiohead's "Daydreaming" from their studio album "A Moon Shaped Pool".

5.6/10

Music video by music band Radiohead. The song "Present tense" from 2016 album "A Moon Shaped Pool" with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwod

Two great filmmakers discuss the evolution of film, 70mm and Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight".

6.7/10

Music Video for Joanna Newsom's song Sapokanikan. This song is the first single from her fourth studio album entitled 'Divers'.

The music video for the title track of Joanna Newsom's widely acclaimed fourth studio album, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and featuring the nebulous imagery of artist Kim Keever.

Paul Thomas Anderson joined his close friend and collaborator Jonny Greenwood on a trip to Rajasthan in northwest India, where they were hosted by the Maharaja of Jodhpur, and he brought his camera with him. Their destination was the 15th-century Mehrangarh Fort, where Greenwood was recording an album with Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur and an amazing group of musicians.

7.4/10
10%

Maverick. Auteur. Rebel. Innovator. Storyteller. Rambler. Gambler. Mad man. Family man. Director. Artist. Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution of his art form, but also on the western zeitgeist. "Altman", Canadian director Ron Mann's new documentary, explores and celebrates the epic fifty-year redemptive journey of one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of the medium. With its use of rare interviews, representative film clips, archival images, and musings from his family and most recognizable collaborators, Mann's Altman is a dynamic and heartfelt mediation on an artist whose expression, passion and appetite knew few bounds.

6.8/10
6.9%

In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

6.7/10
7.4%

Paul Thomas Anderson-directed music video for Fiona Apple's song from her widely acclaimed album 'The Idler Wheel...', featuring alternated color/black-and-white and multiple split screens.

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.

7.2/10
8.5%

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

8.2/10
9.1%

A man goes shopping for a new couch.

4.4/10

A surreal short film crafted out of extra footage from the Paul Thomas Anderson film Punch-Drunk Love and set to Jon Brion's "Here We Go."

6.3/10

A comedic short featured on the 2-disc DVD of Punch-Drunk Love, released in June 2003.

7.4/10

The music video for the original track "Here We Go" was edited by Paul, and created from alternate takes and unused sequences from Punch-Drunk Love.

A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

7.3/10
7.9%

A short film directed by PTA. Part of Adam Sandler's 'Meatball Series'. Shot during the filming of 'Punch-Drunk Love'.

Paul Thomas Anderson-directed music video for Fiona Apple's single.

A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through a gruelling 80+ days of shooting for the film Magnolia (1999), containing behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.

7.5/10

Director Paul Thomas Anderson experiences difficulty when his third child, Magnolia, cant perform as well as his other children, Boogie Nights and Sidney.

Paul Thomas Anderson-directed music video for Fiona Apple's single. An homage to 1940s musical numbers, featuring twenty choreographed young boys.

Friends, enemies, acquaintances, and family of porn star John Holmes recall their experiences with him, from his childhood to his eventual death from AIDS in 1988.

6.9/10

Paul Thomas Anderson-directed music video of Aimee Mann's Academy Award-nominated song. Shot during production of Anderson's 'Magnolia' and featuring the film's ensemble cast.

Paul Thomas Anderson-directed music video for Fiona Apple's single. Shot with a vintage hand-cranked camera using multiple lenses.

An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

8/10
8.3%

Two guys talk about a seminar where they learn how to pick up chicks, both are seen from the waist down only, one is playing acoustic guitar. Related to the Frank TJ Mackie seminars shown in the film Magnolia.

6.2/10

Music video of Fiona Apple's cover of The Beatle's hit song, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson in the diner used in 'Pleasantville'.

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.

7.9/10
9.3%

Music video for Michael Penn's 'Try', shot by Paul Thomas Anderson and other cast and crew from 'Boogie Nights' in a single take in the longest hall-way in North America.

A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

7.2/10
8.3%

Cigarettes & Coffee tells the story of five people's lives all interconnected through a $20 bill.

7.2/10

Paul Thomas Anderson wanders the set of the CBS movie 'Secret Vows', asking various crew departments about their work and which one is the most important while generally being very snarky and making jokes.

In 1992, Anderson was knee-deep at night in devising what would eventually become “Boogie Nights,” but during the day he worked as a production assistant on “Sworn To Vengeance,” a telefilm thriller starring Robert Conrad. From this gig sprang a brief, fascinating clip of the future director giving viewers a tour of the different departments on-set, from transpo to catering and make-up/wardrobe.

5.5/10

The rise and fall of Dirk Diggler.

6/10

Freddie Quell, a World War 2 veteran suffering from PTSD, becomes friends with Lancaster Dodd, a charismatic man who heads a cult known as “The Cause”

Music video to accompany Daydreaming, the second track from Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool, in which Thom Yorke explores different environments through a series of changing doors.

The concept of the show is that Brion will play accompaniment to his guest, sometimes inviting other performers on stage to assist. Like the regular Friday night shows that Brion performed at the club Largo in Los Angeles at the time, the performance is largely improvised. Those Largo performances, displaying the depth of Brion’s pop knowledge and musicianship, were huge successes. And in this instance, with Smith, the result is one amazing musical moment after another.