It’s the most common question one is asked as a movie writer: What’s your favorite movie? On the occasion of our 50th episode of the Way Too Indiecast, your hosts Bernard, CJ and Dustin have decided to share with you their favorite movies, the movies that defined them as cinephiles and changed the way they look at the art form. Plus, two very special guests join the show as H.P. Mendoza (I Am A Ghost) and J.P. Chan (A Picture of You) share their picks. Here’s to 50 episodes and many more to come!

Topics

• Dustin’s Favorite Movie (4:13)
• CJ’s Favorite Movie (25:20)
• Bernard’s Favorite Movie (52:06)

Articles Referenced

• Best Undistributed Films of 2015
• I Am A Ghost Review
• I Am A Ghost Interview
• H.P. Mendoza Indiecast
• A Picture of You Review
• A Picture of You Interview
• J.P. Chan Indiecast

Subscribe to the Way Too Indiecast

• Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes
• Subscribe on Stitcher

The New York Film Festival made a splash earlier this year when it was that they would hold the premieres of both David Fincher’s Gone Girl and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice. Beyond those films, the festival will also feature some favorites from Sundance, Cannes & Toronto including Whiplash, Two Days, One Night, Mr. Turner, Foxcatcher, and their closing night film Birdman. In the festival’s newly released trailer, fans get a glimpse of the complete lineup in a sleek minute-long clip.

Notably, the preview has quick looks at the first footage released from P.T. Anderson’s hotly anticipated new film Inherent Vice. While some images from the movie have been released, there are three shots (one of Joaquin Phoenix lighting up at 0:05, another of cops knocking over Phoenix at 0:41, and the last with Owen Wilson and several large pizzas at 0:51) which will certain pique the interest of any Magnolia fan.

Check out the trailer for the 52nd New York Film Festival below:

P.T. Anderson (There Will be Blood, The Master), one of the most lauded directors of our generation, used to date Fiona Apple in the late ’90s. They were the perfect film/music geek power couple, and at the time were churning out some of their greatest work (Anderson with his delectable Magnolia and Apple with her brutally honest When the Pawn…). Apple, whose musical gift is as extraordinary as his directorial one (likely what drew them together), is so magnetic, dark and elusive that she made a perfect subject for Anderson to capture on camera. I’ve been a huge Fiona fan since her career began, and her  collaborations with Anderson are some of the most beautiful music videos from a time when they ruled the world (remember TRL?!)

After 13 long years of not working or being together (the couple split near the turn of the century), Anderson and Apple have reunited with a sultry, gorgeously framed music video for “Hot Knife”, the closing track of Apple’s excellent 2012 release, The Idler Wheel…. It’s a gloriously steamy reunion indeed. The track’s intricately layered vocal melodies are echoed in Anderson’s visuals, proving that the good vibrations between the duo haven’t subsided over the last decade. Check it out…

“Hot Knife” by Fiona Apple (video by P.T. Anderson)

Hope this isn’t the last time we see these to collaborate! Here are the four fantastic music videos they worked on together over a decade ago:

“Across the Universe” by Fiona Apple (video by P.T. Anderson)

“Fast as You Can” by Fiona Apple (video by P.T. Anderson)

“Limp” by Fiona Apple (video by P.T. Anderson)

“Paper Bag” by Fiona Apple (video by P.T. Anderson)

One of the most intriguing films of 2012 was without a doubt Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. The film contains some of the best acting performances of the year, which led Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, and Amy Adams to all receive Oscar nominations for their respective roles. Recently, some of the official details of the DVD and Blu-ray release were disclosed.

The Master will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on February 26th, 2013.

Special Features:

• “Back Beyond” Outtakes – Additional Scenes Music by Jonny Greenwood (20 min)
• “Unguided Message” – 8 Minute Short
• Behind the Scenes Featurette
• Trailers
• Teasers
• “Let There Be Light” (1946) – John Huston’s landmark documentary about WWII veterans (58 Minutes)
• Digital Copy

The Master Official trailer:

Read Our Review of The Master

Today is the day Paul Thomas Anderson fans can rejoice. In the same day that we received the movie poster for Anderson’s upcoming film, The Master, we now have the full length trailer. Up until this point The Weinstein Company only toyed with us by giving us two teaser clips but they now released a full 2 minute and 37 second trailer for The Master.

From watching the trailer it appears that Joaquin Phoenix might have given his best performance to date which could earn him an Oscar nod come award season. From the trailer The Master certainly looks like Anderson could match the level of notoriety as his previous film, There Will Be Blood, did.

The Master will be released in theaters on October 12th.

Watch the official trailer for The Master:

We still do not know a whole lot about Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly anticipated film The Master. So far there has been two teaser trailers and news that Tom Cruise was unhappy about it’s portrayal of Scientology. But today one more small piece of information has been surfaced, a movie poster for The Master.

The Master Synopsis:

A 1950s-set drama centered on the relationship between a charismatic intellectual known as “the Master” whose faith-based organization begins to catch on in America, and a young drifter who becomes his right-hand man.

Movie poster for The Master:

To be honest, there is no other director out there today that gets me more excited to see their films than P.T. Anderson. It has been 5 very long years since his last film There Will Be Blood, which many including ourselves considered an instant masterpiece. Today the first teaser clip of his latest work entitled The Master has been released.

In this clip we see Joaquin Phoenix in the 1950’s who is a drunken sailor before he meets a charismatic religious leader played by the magnificent Philip Seymour Hoffman. It has long been rumored that Hoffman’s character would be a Scientology leader based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Amy Adams will also star in the film and Jonny Greenwood returns again to do the original score.

The Master is one of this year’s most anticipated films but we will not have to wait much longer. The film will open on October 12th, 2012. Check out the teaser clip below.