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Kicking off our annual series ahead of the Academy Awards, the Guardian’s chief film critic cheerleads for Paul Thomas Anderson’s delirious, delectable retro comedy

After successfully shooting the opening sequence of Boogie Nights – an elaborate steadicam shot in which the camera tracks into and around a night club, introducing the title, setting and all of the main characters of the film – young writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson enthusiastically showed it to the ageing…

Adam White lists just some of the times actors and directors couldn’t stand each other

Cooper Hoffman had never wanted to act

This year’s best picture race boasts a revisionist Western, a science fiction epic, a song-and-dance musical, a grim neo-noir, a shaggy ’70s comedy, an inspirational sports drama, an apocalyptic satire and three major prize winners from the Sundance, Cannes and Toronto film festivals. Academy voters obviously didn’t plan it that…

A transformed Lily James gives us a fully rounded Pamela Anderson; Mary Beard finds no end of illicit art; and an eye-opening documentary explores vaccine hesitancy through the lens of race

The Sundance film festival revealed a growing challenge to the traditional casting of middle-aged men with much younger women

‘The reason that I didn’t give up acting is Paul Thomas Anderson,’ said the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ star