Sunday, November 11 – 7:30 PM
MAGNOLIA, 1999, Warner Bros., 188 min. Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s mosaic of American life woven through a series of comic and poignant vignettes centers on one day in the San Fernando Valley. A dying father, a trophy wife (Julianne Moore), a caretaker (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a flashy and misogynist self-help guru (Tom Cruise), a police officer in love (John C. Reilly), a boy genius, an ex-boy genius (William H. Macy), a game-show host (Philip Baker Hall) and an estranged daughter each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots devolving into one magnificent story. [35mm] Discussion following with director Paul Thomas Anderson.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwXDHSrNFbQ
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Added by AmericanCinematheque on October 31, 2012