With 'Licorice Pizza' out in cinemas and being met with a resolutely split-down-the-middle audience reception, we look at the career of one of the most significant American filmmakers of our lifetimes - Paul Thomas Anderson - featuring several absolute classics like The Master, Magnolia and Inherent Vice. This episode features the first and only use of the word 'talented' on the Film Graze Podcast as we reckon with the San Fernando Valley's favourite son's disconcertingly accomplished juvenalia, the influence of Robert Altman on his entire body of work and his collaborations with some of the most acclaimed musicians of our time like Fiona Apple, Joanna Newsom and Radiohead.

Films discussed:

The Dirk Diggler Story (1988)Cigarettes and Coffee (1993)Hard Eight (1996)Boogie Nights (1997)Magnolia (1999)Punch-Drunk Love (2002)There Will Be Blood (2007)The Master (2012)Inherent Vice (2014)Junun (2015)Phantom Thread (2017)Licorice Pizza (2021)

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The soundtrack includes Phil Graves' covers of 'Etude Op. 10, No. 3 ('No Other Love')' by Frederic Chopin, 'Let Me Roll It' by Paul McCartney & Wings, 'He Needs Me' by Harry Nilsson, 'Journey Through The Past' and 'Harvest' by Neil Young and '(I'd Like To Get You On A) Slow Boat To China' by Frank Loesser.

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co-produced by Emmett Cruddas and Sam Storey