Magnolia (35mm)

To celebrate the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another on Fri 26 September, we’re screening three of his biggest and boldest films on 35mm throughout September, starting with Magnolia.

This psychological drama leads you in several different directions, weaving and intersecting various subplots and characters, from a brilliant Tom Cruise (who was nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe), as a self-proclaimed pied-piper, to a child forced to go on a TV game show and the pressures he faces from a ruthless father.

Paul Thomas Anderson's highly ambitious third feature is indebted to Robert Altman in its multifaceted approach to storytelling, but would in turn inspire a new wave of multilinear films – sometimes referred to as ‘hyperlink cinema’ – at the beginning of the 2000s.

You may also like the following events from Dundee Contemporary Arts:

• Next Saturday, 20th September, 11:00 am, Made in DCA Print Studio Exhibition in Dundee
• Next Sunday, 21st September, 11:00 am, Discovery Family Film Club: Nature's Resources in Dundee
• Next Sunday, 21st September, 02:30 pm, Toll of the Sea with live accompaniment by Stephen Horne in Dundee

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