Review of Hard Eight (1997) by Alex A — 26 Dec 2007

Paul thomas anderson( boogie nights, magnolia, punch dtunk love, there will be blood) first feature, and a solid indie film, which shows all his potential for follow up boogie nights, great use of widescreen down to earth settings, and in john c tiley a well deserved main part, he later went on to do 2 more anderdson films, and also other anderson regular phillip baker hall, as the guy to take riley ander his wing, riley stars as a down on his luck gambler, taken in by hall, he teaches him how to be a winner at gambling in reno, while not spending much.

forward 3 years, they formed s full friendship, and with a new bride in gwyneth paltrow, things go wrong, and with sam jackson on scene, things go bad, anderson proves here, he can rutn his hand at anything, this certainly diferent in style and rhythem to boogie nights, although b.

N did go down similer themes, but this is definatly more charactor driven, mre magnolia, theres rumours p.t fell out with film company, and this isnt vision he liked, the name he says was sydney, after baker halls charactor, and been much cut down, but whatever story, even under pressure, he puts a good film together, very tarentino jackie brown before jackie brown came out, superb debut from best director working today, I cant seem to find this on dvd in u.

K, so hard to track down.