Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 22: Mon Jan 22

There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007): Picturehouse Central, 6.30pm


This film, part of the 35mm screenings season for Paul Thomas Anderson films ahead of the release of his new film Phantom Thread, is also being screened from the 35mm print at the Prince Charles Cinema on January 28th. Full details here.

Picturehouse Cinema introduction:
A sprawling epic about family, faith, power and oil, There Will Be Blood is set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. He takes a chance when he hears of a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, and makes his lucky strike. But as the well raises his and the town’s fortunes, nothing will remain the same; conflicts escalate and every human value – love, hope, community, belief, ambition and even the bond between father and son – is imperilled by corruption, deception and the flow of oil.

Here (and above) is the trailer. 

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