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.