“You’ve got a serious artist crush,” Marcy remarked — a statement, not a question — when I sent her a link to a gallery of adorably geeky photographs of Paul Thomas Anderson during the Hard Eight period. Guilty as charged: I’ve been rewatching and reassessing and obsessing over all five of PTA’s films, reevaluating Punch-Drunk [...]
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
All posts tagged paul-thomas-anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Posted by Jürgen on March 7, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/03/07/paul-thomas-anderson/
I Milk Your Drinkshake!
Via idrinkyourmilkshake.com, where Blood obsession is still in full swing. Some recent favorites: Incredible revelations: the Peachtree Dance and Henry’s diary are both derived from East of Eden. Eli doesn’t get to bless the well, but he blesses Daniel’s house. More on the Greystone Mansion. Napkinface: “There is no sex.” More. Drinking, eating, smoking in [...]
Posted by Jürgen on March 5, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/03/05/i-milk-your-drinkshake/
Giant
The promising first half of George Stevens’ Texan epic sets up a tiresome three-and-a-half-hour descent into mediocrity. Displaced northern bride Liz Taylor slowly fades from the center of the story, nouveau riche James Dean is woefully misused, children come and go, and Rock Hudson’s stubborn cattle rancher is granted an improbable redemption. Giant keeps pulling [...]
Posted by Jürgen on January 26, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/01/26/giant/
I Drink It Up
Ladies and Gentlemen, I have traveled over half our state to get here this evening. I couldn’t get away sooner because my new site was coming in at idrinkyourmilkshake.com. That site is now flowing at two thousand hits per day, and it’s paying me an income of five thousand dollars a week. I have two [...]
Posted by Jürgen on January 10, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/01/10/i-drink-it-up/
There Will Be More Blood
Between the noontime press conference at the Waldorf and the Ziegfeld premiere, Monday completely belonged to There Will Be Blood. If celebrity sightings are your thing, I’ve got a few stories for you — but I’d hate to namedrop Maggie Gyllenhaal, Liam Neeson, John Leguziamo, and the kid who played H.W. just for the sake [...]
Posted by Jürgen on December 12, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/12/12/there-will-be-more-blood/
There Will Be Blood
There will be puns, there will be awards, there will be awesome. Based on Upton Sinclair’s Oil!, Paul Thomas Anderson (whose movies I often failed to appreciate in the past) has made a magnificent epic about the price of the precious resources, liquid and otherwise, that we extract from the ground — and from other [...]
Posted by Jürgen on November 29, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/11/29/there-will-be-blood/
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