Tagged There Will Be Blood

Phantom Thread eludes being pinned down, with beguiling mastery. From the word go, you are never quite sure where it is heading, or exactly what sort of film you are watching, but – much like leading lady...

Daniel Day-Lewis is probably the most famous method actor in the world. Although this practice was brought to prominence on screen by classic stars such as Marlon Brando and James Dean in the 1950s, who were...

As, quite possibly, the greatest actor of his or any generation, it’s tempting to think of Daniel Day-Lewis as someone who stands alone. To imagine him towering above his colleagues in terms of both his...

Time and again Sir Daniel Day-Lewis’ name has been sounded in response to the debate as to who is the greatest living actor. Certainly, it is the case that his name is synonymous with the highest standard...

Given his propensity for writing films revolving around driven, charismatic, and dangerously self-regarding men, one might be forgiven for thinking Paul Thomas Anderson, all-round auteur and probably the...

Dresses are designed to bring even the dullest body alive with colour, shape and style; to make the ordinary beautiful. And they are also designed to control: to tighten the breath, to project personality and...

Pure comedies don’t take much home come awards season. This makes sense if you're talking about the factory line of studio comedies, but in the case of Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz, it's an outrage. No comedy...

The Western was once one of Hollywood’s most important and bankable staple genres, but come the 1960s and the various changes that brought for the industry its popularity waned, never to recover save a few...

If you have a gammy fin or a congenital neurological disorder, chances are you don't often see yourself onscreen. Unless of course you're a fish and you're watching Finding Dory, released in the UK late...

­­­­ This week's release of Hail, Caesar! marks the directorial return of Ethan & Joel Coen. Arguably two of the greatest filmmakers of their generation, the Coens have sprinkled the past three...

In the run-up to this year’s Oscars we’ll be running some debates on classic Oscar categories, beginning with 2008’s Best Picture nominees: Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood and No...

First off: this is not a documentary about, or ode to, Jonny Greenwood – he’s barely in it. Instead, Anderson constructs a largely wordless impressionistic illustration through music, played live...

The best actors are the ones that lose themselves so completely in a role that we barely recognise them anymore. It’s a hard enough task with only one character to play, so anyone who can pull it off...

“FFFFFUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!” - Dwayne Hoover, Little Miss Sunshine This was the first word many of us heard come out of actor Paul Dano’s mouth. It comes about halfway through 2006 indiewood hit...

The Western genre is sumptuously classical, historically entwined with cinema since its birth - and yet it is also helplessly turbulent, subject to postcolonial criticism for the histories it depicts in its...