‘Hard Eight' Archives Completed

Over the next week, the entire Paul Thomas Anderson archives that have been collected over the last 12+ years will be uploading to our website. The first archive completed is Hard Eight, featuring endless information and multimedia including:

EXCLUSIVE HARD EIGHT ARCHIVES / Cigarettes & Red Vines  

DVD DETAILS
Domestic & Forgein Releases, Art and Technical Specifications

ARTWORK
Posters, print ads & forgein/format specific box art

PHOTO GALLERY
Photos from the premiere of the film & site-exclusive images from the official Rysher Entertainment press kit for Hard Eight

PRESS & RECOGNITION
Features Production Notes transcribed from the press kit, Awards & Nominations & Top Ten Critics Lists.

10 DELETED SCENES
Transcribed from the original draft of the Hard Eight Screenplay.

There is still a little more to be added to the HE archives, but the idea is to fill each section up with the most relevant/unique information for each film and flesh out the pages with the more wildly available information (cast & crew, imdb-esque things etc) after. Enjoy.

Try Music Video Archives Completed

Paul Thomas Anderson's first music video "Try" by Michael Penn is a single shot video that is set inside a three quarter-mile long hallway in Los Angeles. In Michael Penn's words:

"I was having a hard time trying to figure out what to do for a video for this song, and I was talking to Paul about it and he had always expressed a desire to do it, but I really didn't think that he would do it, that he would be able to because he was cutting Boogie Nights at the time. 

We started talking about the song apparently he knew a location in Los Angeles which is the longest hallway in North America, it's 3/4 of a mile long, and we went there together and kind of looked at the location and we walked it while a walkman was playing the song and it was just about the same length to walk it as the song. 

That kind of suggested an idea and it worked out great because the video is one continuous shot so there was no editing involved so we were able to do it all in one weekend. And that's what we did. I think it took about 14 takes to accomplish."

There are a few interesting facts you may or may not have known and they can all be viewed here.

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Cigarettes And Coffee Archives Completed

There isn't a ton of information about Paul's short film Cigarettes and Coffee but whatever is known has been uploaded and archived onto our site here. The main feature of this page would probably be the only-known review written by VHS Nation about the short.

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Paul Thomas Anderson Multimedia Archives

The multimedia content that is set to be featured in the archives on the main website is currently uploading to our flickr account. Content includes, but is not limited to hundreds of Oscar Ads, premiere photos, promotional items and foreign artwork. In the meantime of coding the actual website, you can click the name of the film you wish to see an advanced look at what is coming: Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love. 

Fast As You Can Archives Complete

The archives for Fast As You Can has been completed and uploaded to our projects page complete with rare promotional items, quotes and a photo essay explaining a few of the effects in the video that have been asked about most by e-mail/visitors to the site. The news archives are continuing to grow daily as well (I think we are at August 2000 currently) and will be up in their entirety by the end of the week.

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Hard Eight Archives Completed

We invite you to check out the completed archives for Paul Thomas Anderson's first feature film "Hard Eight"

As it will be with all the films, videos and short project pages shortly, you will find: Multiple different formats of poster art, promotional materials, reviews, low-res photos from the premiere, 9 deleted scenes transcribed from the original draft of the "Sydney" screenplay, original press kit production notes and more will be added once other pages have caught up.

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