Review: 'One Battle After Another' offers plenty of visual sizzle, but no steak
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Review: 'One Battle After Another' offers plenty of visual sizzle, but no steak
Roger Ebert used to say, “it's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.” That holds true and has for decades, with some caveats. “One Battle After Another,” the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson —…
One battle after another was one of the most anticipated films of this year and has more than met the expectations it generated. Paul Thomas Anderson left – many years ago – to be an alternative director to become one of the main referents of American cinema and, with his new film, demonstrates so much formal mastery [...] See more news in Indie Hoy.
Happy Accidents, Revolutionary Moments, & Killer Improv: Inside "One Battle After Another" With DP Michael Bauman
Spoilers below. “That dude is unbelievable,” admits One Battle After Another cinematographer Michael Bauman to The Credits about Leonardo DiCaprio. “I mean, he’s a star and he brings people in [theaters] but his ability to expand the character is unreal.” Bauman has worked with Paul Thomas Anderson on five different features in one capacity or another, but it was the first time on set with DiCaprio on the acclaimed film, which sees the Oscar-win…
MOVIES: One Battle After Another Review: Just a Few Small Beers
One Battle After Another is a masterpiece of the highest order from Paul Thomas Anderson – whose chameleonic like ability has seen his films earn a reputation as some of the best of the last decade – be they struggling oil barons in There Will Be Blood looking to make it rich; or a washed up cult believer in The Master trying to survive – he’s capable of keeping it fresh and this movie is no different; opening with a revolutionary takeover of an…
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