Boogie Nights: How Hollywood and porn shaped each other Alamy As Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson's nostalgic portrait of the "Golden Age" of adult film, turns 25, Rachel Pronger explores the interrelated history of the pornography and film industries. There's a scene near the beginning of Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson's nostalgic portrait of the 1970s LA porn industry, in …
Veteran actor Nicolas Cage is mighty impressed with Midsommar and Hereditary director Ari Aster and wants to collaborate with the young filmmaker. Cage, who has worked with celebrated directors ranging from Brian De Palma to Werner Herzog, called Aster a “real student of film”. Then I heard a podcast where he was talking about the closeups in Persona, and I’d …
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