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Paul Thomas Anderson Says Leonardo DiCaprio Was Offered ‘Boogie Nights’ But Turned It Down To Make ‘Titanic’

March 11, 2022 1:32 pm

At The Playlist, we sure do love a good “What if?” casting situation. Every now and then they pop up and always get our imagination going. And the latest one is something really interesting, as it deals with o...

Paul Thomas Anderson Originally Wanted Sean Penn For Crucial Roles In ‘Boogie Nights’ & ‘Punch-Drunk Love’

Charles Barfield

November 11, 2021 1:12 pm

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When you watch the trailer for the new Paul Thomas Anderson film, “Licorice Pizza,” the setting of mid-‘70s Southern California brings to mind films of that era and others from decades ago. It’s clear the film...

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Examining Paul Thomas Anderson’s Toxic Men

Julia Teti

May 28, 2018 3:04 pm

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Director Paul Thomas Anderson has written some of the most fascinatingly flawed male characters in cinema. They possess qualities of dominance, insecurity, and a heaping dose of toxicity. PTA writes complicated...

Burt Reynolds Turned Down ‘Boogie Nights’ Seven Times And Wanted To Hit Paul Thomas Anderson

Charles Barfield

March 20, 2018 11:30 am

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Depending on your age, legendary actor Burt Reynolds is known to you for probably one of two things. If you’re old enough, you remember how cool Reynolds was, starring in “Smokey and the Bandit,” “The Longest Y...

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Paul Thomas Anderson Says He’ll Work With Leonardo DiCaprio; Reiterates Love For Tom Cruise & Adam Sandler

Rodrigo Perez

January 6, 2018 3:12 pm

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It’s nice to see Paul Thomas Anderson demystifying his so-called secretiveness and—a bit of a stretch, but a term people still use—“reclusiveness” by conducting so many interviews for his masterful new movie “P...

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Paul Thomas Anderson Talks Battling Burt Reynolds On The Set Of ‘Boogie Nights’

Kevin Jagernauth

December 27, 2017 12:29 pm

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There was no love lost between Paul Thomas Anderson and Burt Reynolds on the set of "Boogie Nights." The rising young filmmaker and the veteran actor clashed on what would become Anderson's celebrated, breakout...

Mark Wahlberg Wants God’s Forgiveness For ‘Boogie Nights’

Kevin Jagernauth

October 24, 2017 9:59 am

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Mark Wahlberg has never been shy about this faith, but it also doesn't really seem to have affected his career moves in any real way. From hard R comedies like "Ted," to outrageous projects like "Pain & Gai...

The 10 Best Films Of 1997

Oliver Lyttelton

March 29, 2017 1:04 pm

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Our smorgasbord of 1990s nostalgia, two weeks of Top 10 lists for every year in the decade, is beginning to reach its end, but we pick up today with 1997. It was the year of the start of the second Clinton term...

Warren Beatty Talks Turning Down ‘Boogie Nights,’ ‘Kill Bill,’ ‘The Godfather’ & ‘Superman’

Kevin Jagernauth

November 18, 2016 10:36 am

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The laundry list of great films that Warren Beatty has been involved with as an actor or director (or both) doesn't need to spelled out, but there's no doubt the 79-year-old Hollywood veteran has justified his ...

Between The Sheets: The Science Of Movie Sex Scenes

Nicholas Laskin

August 26, 2016 5:07 pm

News

“Scopophilia” is a Greek term that is defined as “pleasure to be derived from watching.” Understandably, it’s a term that some academics have employed when discussing what it means to depict sex onscreen. There...

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