The Big Picture · Review
January 11, 2022/ 93 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins · Chris Ryan · Wasney Lambre
A spoiler-heavy roundtable on Paul Thomas Anderson's ninth feature: the Gary/Alana age gap, the Jerry Frick scenes, Bradley Cooper's John Peters, and where it sits in the PTA run.
1 films across 1 segment.
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‘Licorice Pizza’spoilers throughout
PTA back in the San Fernando Valley for the first time since Boogie Nights. Cooper Hoffman (Philip Seymour Hoffman's son) and first-timer Alana Haim anchor it; the panel reads it as an Alana movie that drifts her way in the edit. They dig into the Gary/Alana age gap and the John Michael Higgins 'Jerry Frick' mock-accent scenes, plus Bradley Cooper's John Peters, the down-the-hill set piece, the Let Me Roll It needle drop, and its Oscar odds (screenplay over Best Picture).
Also mentioned raised along the way
The PTA filmography Boogie NightsMagnoliaPunch-Drunk LoveThere Will Be BloodThe MasterInherent VicePhantom Thread
Comparisons and asides Once Upon a Time in HollywoodDazed and ConfusedAmerican GraffitiBoyz n the HoodJuiceThe TownThe FighterYours, Mine and Ours
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
TV YellowjacketsStation ElevenSuccessionYellowstone
Podcasts The WatchThe Rewatchables
Fictional Under One Roof (the fake movie within Licorice Pizza)
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