There Will Be Blood: A PeaceBang Review

You’ve undoubtedly heard the buzz about Paul Thomas Anderson’s magnificent film, “There Will Be Blood.” I don’t have time to write much about it, but I thought it was a masterpiece.
Daniel Day Lewis is riveting as a misanthropic oil man - he’s in nearly every scene and does an impeccable job creating an unforgettable character that should earn him an Academy Award and cement his status as one of our best living actors — but it’s Paul Thomas Anderson’s story-telling skills that really got me in this one. It’s a wonderful film: totally American yet Shakespearean in scale and operatic in emotion. The first hours can be slow, but the cinematography and exquisitely detailed period set pieces, plus the thrilling score (so fascinating that I had to nudge my friend and say, “This music is SO COOL” to which he whispered back that someone from Radiohead had […]