HARD EIGHT / SYDNEY

Apr 14

Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.

Episode One explores PTA’s debut feature - released as “Hard Eight” but referred to (by PTA and his acolytes) as “Sydney”.

Featuring the contributions of:

ART DIRECTOR, WRITER AND THE CREATOR OF CINEPHILE: A CARD GAME, CORY EVERETT
POP CULTURE CRITIC, EDITOR AND FREELANCE WRITER WITH BYLINES AT PASTE, VULTURE AND ROGERT EBERT DOT COM, ISAAC FELDBERG
FILM CRITIC AND HOST OF THE TERRIFIC WATCH WITH JEN PODCAST, JEN JOHANS

All excerpts from The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha are used with the permission of Columbia University Press.

Blake Howard

Blake Howard is a writer, film critic, podcast host and producer behind One Heat Minute Productions, which includes shows One Heat Minute, The Last 12 Minutes Of The Mohicans, Increment Vice, All The President’s Minutes, Miami Nice and Josie & The Podcats. Endorsed and featuring legendary filmmaker Michael Mann, One Heat Minute was named by New York Magazine and Vulture as one of 100 Great Podcasts To Listen To and nominated for an Australian Podcast Award. Creator of the Australian film collective Graffiti With Punctuation, Blake is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic with bylines in Empire Magazine, SBS Movies, Vague Visages, Dark Horizons, Film Ink and many more.

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