Part of our THE INSPIRATION & THE INSPIRED series. Saturday, August 10, 2019 @ 11:59p, The Vista: THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007, Paramount, dir by Paul Thomas Anderson, 35mm)

Paul Thomas Anderson has gone on the record as saying that THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE is essentially the movie that inspired him to make his own masterpiece, 2007’s THERE WILL BE BLOOD.

In several interviews, Anderson has relayed the phenomenon many have experienced of watching MADRE for the first time and not quite getting why it is so beloved. Then watching it a 2nd and a 3rd and a 4th time and coming to realize it is one of the greatest movies America has ever produced.

A phenomenon not unlike that experienced by fans of the Coen Brothers’ THE BIG LEBOWSKI (which we are also showing later in the month).

One can see all the little and big ways in which MADRE inspired BLOOD like ribbons of gold in a rock. First off there’s the focus of how hard work and mining can lead to success but how that success can lead to soul-killing greed.

Then there’s Daniel Day Lewis’s towering performance where he almost appears to be channeling John Huston himself in his voice and style.

Then there’s the near biblical nature of the tale of how Day-Lewis’s decidedly atheistic and capitalistic Daniel Plainview makes a devil’s bargain with local preacher, Eli Sunday (played with brave abandon by Paul Dano) to get the local townspeople to allow Plainview to prospect their land for oil.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD is the movie in which Anderson’s commitment to finding his own voice and transcend his influences paradoxically sublimates those very influences (Huston, Kubrick, Malick) so beautiful that he creates something with the granite like power of classic Hollywood cinema but married to the social insight of great 70’s American cinema and the oddball idiosyncrasy and cinematic genius that is Anderson’s very own.

One of the great American masterworks of the 21st century. And one of Daniel Day Lewis’s towering performances in a career of towering performances. Watch the stunning child that THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE birthed.

Best always,

Craig Hammill

35mm Secret Movie Club Programmer.Organizer

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