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Bookmark this pageThe Master (2013)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Synopsis
America’s finest living filmmaker (the comments box is below, Malick fans) returns with a film which has already become 2013’s most controversial release. When reports began to trickle in that Paul Thomas Anderson’s follow-up to ‘There Will Be Blood’ would focus on a portly WW2 veteran in the 1950s who decides to start his own religion, eyebrows were raised, particularly at the headquarters of a certain sect popular with Hollywood actors. It wasn’t long before the film’s original backers had pulled out citing ‘script problems’, leaving the door open for one-woman film studio Megan Ellison to step into the breach. Filming began in June of this year, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix and Laura Dern in the cast – and still very few details about the plot. Watch this space.
Cast & crew
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix full cast
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