Hello, Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt, and welcome to a very special edition of the Empire podcast, in association with our friends at Warner Brothers.

You know, over the last 25 years ago, there has been one directing Paul Anderson

who has bestrode cinema like a colossus.

No, not that guy, not the guy directed to Vent Horizon, not Paul W.S. Anderson.

I'm talking, of course, about Paul Thomas Anderson, PTA himself,

the director of Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love, and it will be blood and hard ate,

and the master, a licorice, an inherent fice, and one battle after another, and of course,

boogie nights, which has now been finally remastered in 4K

UHD and is available for you to buy right now.

And that momentous event has meant that I have now corralled three colleagues of such lethal

cunning together in this pod booth to chat all things, boogie nights, and PTA for the next

45 minutes or so. We're going to have a simply capital time. The big bright shining stars I have

assembled are of course James Thomas Dyer. Hello Chris. Alex Thomas Godfrey. Good evening.

Helen Thomas O'Hara? I guess. Hello. Wow, that's a weird middle name. You know, I like to mix it up. But there you go. And, of course, it's me. Chris Thomas. Actually, that is my middle name. That literally is. Genuinely, you just stumbled into that. Chris Thomas.

I am a CTA because I'm Ambrose.

Yeah.

And my mother's maiden name was

and our dog growing up was

so if any fraudsters out there

would like to guess my password,

that will help you. That'll help you along the way. So there you go. So Boogie Nights. Let's start with Boogie Nights and get a kind

of overview of PTA and this wonderful, wonderful career. We have something in Empire Magazine

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