![]() He also said he ''can't remember'' his own mother's name or occupation. ![]() ''I can't remember,'' was his response when he was asked to divulge her surname. For the last nine years, he has had the same girlfriend, Wendy, whom he feels skittish about discussing. Anderson drove home, it was to a hilly section of the San Fernando Valley not far from where he was grew up. Anderson climbed into his dusty black Sentra GXE and threaded his way through the streets of Los Angeles on an extensive round of appointments related to ''Boogie Nights,'' talking about the film all the while. ''Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. ''I have way too much respect for actors,'' said the director, who counts many in the ''Boogie Nights'' ensemble as his closest friends. ''People are just responding to great movies that are entertaining and exciting to them,'' he said. Tarantino's name and his are often mentioned together. Anderson, of course, takes it as a compliment that Mr. They are even represented by the same publicity agency. Both hired the music supervisor Karyn Rachtman to help assemble a clutch of hook-filled 70's pop songs to drive their narratives. Tarantino are self-taught Los Angeles-born film buffs. But as ''Boogie Nights'' continues to gather adoring reviews, he is inevitably also being compared to a hot auteur of the 90's, Quentin Tarantino, the director of ''Pulp Fiction.'' Both Mr. Anderson's writing and directorial style, he is being likened to the Martin Scorsese of the ''Mean Streets'' era. Probably more vivid than my memory of yesterday.''īecause of the nervous energy of Mr. ''Those memories are incredibly vivid to me. ![]() Anderson, who watched his older half-brothers head off to discotheques in Qiana bodyshirts and polyester pants. How did the director manage to capture a time-specific scene that unfurled well before he was old enough to be let into a nightclub? ''In a twisted way, this movie is about my childhood,'' said Mr. Like Ang Lee's ''Ice Storm,'' another much-talked-about new film, ''Boogie Nights'' is being credited by critics for being eerily accurate about the 1970's. Eddie is an affable albeit slow-thinking teen-ager who works at a menial job in a nightclub, then changes his name to Dirk Diggler after being recruited into the adult-entertainment industry by Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), a producer of pornographic films who fancies himself something of an artiste. Confidential'' it was shown in the New York Film Festival last week, and it will open commercially today.Īt the center of this 155-minute opus is the operatic rise and fall of Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg). Last month at the Toronto Film Festival, ''Boogie Nights'' shared the top award with Curtis Hanson's ''L.A. Anderson a sort of attention that's unusual for a second-time, 27-year-old director. ''Boogie Nights,'' a sprawling dramatic film that has as its backdrop the pornography business of the late 1970's and early 80's, is bringing Mr. He has never found this artifact of his childhood, but no one can say his research has been for naught. Anderson has watched hundreds of X-rated videos, keeping an eye out for one that reveals clues of the house he was familiar with. ''And I clearly remember thinking, 'Wow! I want to see what's going on in there.' '' ''They told me that a porno movie was being shot,'' he said. ![]() He was only 10 years old when this fixation began: while visiting his grandmother, who lived just down the block from his family's home in Studio City, Calif., he noticed that the windows of a house across the street were blacked out and that several light stands stood on the front lawn. THERE'S A HISTORICAL BIT OF film that Paul Thomas Anderson has been trying to track down for most of his adult life.
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