There Will Be Blood in 35mm
There Will Be Blood in 35mm
A loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil!, Paul Thomas Anderson’s dark character study of Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a prospector turned ruthless oil man, paints a voracious thirst for dominance. Plainview arrives in Little Boston, a community sitting on an ocean of black gold, and goes toe-to-toe with the maniacal preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), the community’s de facto leader. Anderson’s portrait of Plainview weaves a tense meditation on an end of the American frontier and the transition of the forces that carved it up through greed, religion, and violence. Nominated in seven categories, the film won Oscars for Robert Elswit’s cinematography and Daniel Day-Lewis’s unforgettable performance.
DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Paul Thomas Anderson. WITH: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O’Connor, Ciarán Hinds. 2007. 158 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated R. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
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