Maybe that’s L.A., maybe that’s New York, maybe that’s London, maybe it’s Shanghai-whatever it is, I have to get out of here.īut I’m one of those people who loves to get away for twenty-four hours and then I start getting itchy and thinking about home. “Out of here” being over the hill, not in the San Fernando Valley. I can remember being a kid and thinking at a certain point, probably in my teen-age years, I’ve got to get out of here. It’s as simple as that: it sort of begins and ends there. And, since he has set “Boogie Nights,” “Magnolia,” and, now, “Licorice Pizza” in that territory, I began the conversation by asking him why the place resonates so deeply for him. He was speaking from his home in the Valley. (Anderson made a film of Pynchon’s novel “ Inherent Vice.”) I spoke with Anderson for The New Yorker Radio Hour our conversation has been edited for length and clarity. His square was not indicated by his name but, rather, “Mason & Dixon,” a sign of his admiration for the reclusive novelist Thomas Pynchon. I was reminded of that when I got on a Zoom call with him the day after seeing his movie. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Cruise, Melora Walters, Julianne Moore, and Joaquin Phoenix are among the veteran actors who have appeared in his best films, which include “Punch-Drunk Love,” “Magnolia,” “There Will Be Blood,” “ The Master,” and “ Phantom Thread.”Īnderson rarely speaks to reporters. His first features-“Hard Eight” and “Boogie Nights”-came out when he was in his mid-twenties, and, ever since, he has been the sort of artist whose new work is always an event. He is a Valley kid, and he’s never really left those suburban streets. It’s been a long pandemic, and this was an exhilarating reminder of what joy is like.Īnderson is fifty-one, and he has been making movies since he was an adolescent. The fractured narrative is wised-up and sly, but also winningly sincere. It’s about the strangeness of being young, the experience of becoming a human being and shaping a self. Our choice for the night was Paul Thomas Anderson’s “ Licorice Pizza,” a film set in the San Fernando Valley of the nineteen-seventies. I love all of it: the coming attractions for horror flicks I’ll never see and for spy films I wouldn’t miss the chattering crowd the Brobdingnagian snacks the adhesive floors.
#IF ANY MOVIE MOVIE#
A few nights ago, my wife and I went to our local movie theatre, a multiplex with huge screens and blaring sound systems. Slowly, cautiously, vaccinated to the nines, we are returning to some of the basic pleasures of ordinary life.
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