Variety has an early review of There Will Be Blood — the forthcoming film matchup of Paul Thomas Anderson and Upton Sinclair. “Magnificently strange” is certainly a good sign. And the film appears to maintain the playful experimentation established in Anderson’s last film, Punch Drunk Love, kick-starting with “an electronic sound that soars to an almost unbearable pitch,” which throws the film’s first fifteen minutes into a narrative without dialogue. There’s also a score by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. I wasn’t really on the fence in terms of my curiosity, but now I’m extremely intrigued about what Anderson has concocted here.
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Pain! Drama! Knife Licking!
And the runner-up is this Dunkin Donuts brawl. As for Riki-Oh, well let’s just say that his opponent needs better eyeball makeup. But attempting to choke your opponent with your own digestive tract is pretty inspired.
The Unusual Combination of Michael Jackson, Martin Scorsese, and Richard Price
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The video also features a young Wesley Snipes.
See also Weird Al Yankovich’s “Fat.”
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Cronenberg, Carpenter & Landis — 1982
David Cronenberg: “If you want to take that as an absolutely blanket question, no, I don’t think there’s anything that should not be shown in films.” Also, rather presciently, Cronenberg predicts the PG-13 rating and points out the advantages of the American film ratings system over the Canadian one, where the filmmaker will go to jail if she projects the offending film clips.
The three directors are coming off, respectively, from Scanners, The Thing and An American Werewolf in London.
What’s also interesting here is that this roundtable discussion is hosted by Mick Garris, who would become a filmmaker only a few years later. Part 2 and Part 3 are here.
And for my money, the most brutal Carpenter moment is this scene from Assault on Precinct 13.