With his latest film currently in production, Paul Thomas Anderson has been on our minds. We took this opportunity to look back one of his masterpieces, There Will Be Blood (2007). Set during the southern California oil boom of the turn of the century, the film has at its core a rivalry between an oilman (played by Daniel Day Lewis in an oscar winning role) and a local priest (played by Paul Dano). Anderson has described the film as "a horror story about the birth of California", and it explores themes of greed, family, religion, and power with expert craftsmanship on all fronts. Hear us discuss this, as well as why one of us finds this film deeply personal.
