Robert Elswit, who's shot six of Anderson's films ... a combination of me and Paul just not getting along, and I can be as immature as him.” Elswit lensed “Hard Eight,” “Boogie Nights ...

Hard Eight is the film that got Paul Thomas Anderson into Hollywood, and it works well on nearly every level. There’s a straightforwardness to the way it unfolds that lends it a blunt-edged kind ...

In 1993, a 23-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson submitted ... Before he was 30, Anderson had made three beloved feature films—Hard Eight, Boogie Nights and Magnolia—and had already secured his ...