He is dressed mall-style, his shirt hanging out over his trousers, and is prone to American teenage expressions like "jeez". Despite the light straggle of beard on his chin, he seems younger. It was directed by Anderson when he was just 26.Īnderson is 27 now. And the film, set in the subculture of the hard-porn industry in Los Angeles in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was described by one American critic as "the most sensational act of moviemaking so far this year". If the movie features a faded Seventies star on the way back up, so much the better.Īnderson's faded Seventies star is Burt Reynolds, who plays sleaze king Jack Horner in Boogie Nights. Tarantinos have been popping up fairly regularly in the past few years: the qualifications are a childhood spent in darkened cinemas, youth, and at least one ambitious, quirky film. When Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights was shown at the Toronto film festival last year, it was perhaps inevitable that the young American director would be hailed as the "new Quentin Tarantino". Independent On Sunday, Written By Paul Mungo
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