Paul Thomas Anderson: A Chronological Timeline

Paul Thomas Anderson has been my favorite filmmaker since I started watching films closely. I’ve always wanted to somehow pay tribute to the influence his stories have had on my life, and so I finally decided to string each of his feature films together in chronological order, beginning with There Will Be Blood, set in 1898, and eventually arriving at Punch-Drunk Love, which was set in the present day when it was shot in 2002. Frankly, this technique was mostly just an excuse to delve into some of PTA’s mo