A new context for ‘There Will Be Blood,’ plus the week’s best movies in L.A.
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A new context for ‘There Will Be Blood,’ plus the week’s best movies in L.A.

LA Times  

“There Will Be Blood,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a ruthless oilman, will be screened Sunday in Los Angeles as part of a film series that asks viewers to consider the western genre through alternative lenses. We need both.” ‘There Will Be Blood’ in 35mm Daniel Day-Lewis, left, and Paul Dano in the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed “There Will Be Blood,” which will screen Sunday at the David Geffen Theater. On Saturday night, Vidiots will host a screening of Gia Coppola’s new “The Last Showgirl” with Coppola and the film’s star Pamela Anderson present for a Q&A. As Sean Howe wrote about the film in 2006, “It belongs in a pantheon of films — along with ‘Sunset Boulevard,’ ‘Mi Vida Loca’ and ‘Valley Girl’ — that have managed to capture in-the-moment pieces of the L.A. landscape that are no more.” ‘They Came Together’ Vidiots will host two screenings of “They Came Together,” the rom-com parody starring Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler, to mark the movie’s 10th anniversary. For my money it really does both, it undercuts it while also allowing you to root for them to get together.” Andrea Arnold’s ‘Bird’ Barry Keoghan in “Bird.” Filmmaker Andrea Arnold returns with “Bird,” her first fiction feature since 2016’s “American Honey.” The new film premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival and was recently nominated for two European Film Awards and six British Independent Film Awards.

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