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Three podcasters watched a movie and recorded their conversation about it afterward… and I would like to think this was only a matter of chance.

Our Paul Thomas Anderson series keeps a-rollin’ with MAGNOLIA, his “blank check” movie after the success of BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997). The intention was to make something he’d never get the chance to make again — something big and strange and audacious. Is the resulting three-hour opus a work of idiosyncratic genius? Or was this one of those times PTA just got a bit big for his britches?

References:

• “Music as a Balm: My Appreciation for Magnolia’s Mid-Film Sing-Along” by David Potvin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog
• “WTF Frogs!? You know what? Sure. Why not? Why Magnolia So Fully Captures the Ennui of the End of the 20th Century” by Allison Vincent for Perisphere, the Trylon blog
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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Wise Up” by Aimee Mann as performed in MAGNOLIA.