Hello, my name is Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're going to talk about Paul Thomas Anderson.

I don't want to make a podcast where they show up, they sit down, they jack off, and they get up and they get out before the podcast ends.

It is my dream.

It is my goal.

It is my idea to make a podcast where the content just sucks them in.

And when they spurt out that joy juice, they've got to sit at it.

They can't move until they find out how the conversation ends.

Oh, my God. Is Bert Reynolds and or Jack Nicholson in the room?

I can't tell. I haven't, I've never attempted a Bert Reynolds impression before, so I'm sorry if it's not quite

off to my other impressions. So like any kid that was getting into films, P.T. Anderson was someone that you had to like.

Oh, sure. High school, you know.

And he's one of those people that we don't usually mention when we talk about that stage of our film, love and career, because his movies were good and they remained good, as opposed to other filmmakers.

But also, he's somebody who I think has ascended to another level.

Like those early movies, which I like, are in that kind of showy, you know. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. High school kind of movie making better than, you know, a lot of them. But he's evolved, right? And it's hard to even think of him. I think he's clearly become the best of that Sundance, you know, the Sundance kids.

Yep. evolved, right? And it's hard to even think of him. I think he's clearly become the best of

that Sundance, you know, the Sundance kids, the rubbles on the back lot. You know, with apologies to

Mr. Tarantino, I think Paul Thomas Anderson is the best of them now. I don't think there's any

doubt in that as far as like being talked about critically. He's not on that level that Tarantino is in pop culture, I feel, but his films will last

a test of time.

And he's the one who feels the most exciting to watch right now because each new movie

feels like an event and it feels like it keeps going further and further into this evolution.

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