Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Director Paul Thomas Anderson&s There Will Be Blood is a masterly unflinching examination of a consummately evil man Daniel Plainview (via a transcendent performance by the great Daniel Day-Lewis) is as he likes to remind those around him an oil man he finds it he drills for it & he makes money from it Following a tip from a visitor named Paul Sunday whose family sits atop a veritable ocean of oil Plainview travels to the town of New Boston California with his young son Sunday&s preacher brother Eli (both roles are played by the excellent Paul Dano) grudgingly accepts Plainview&s ambitions under the condition that he help fund the town church As Plainview&s plans come to fruition a series of events begin to fracture the insular world he has constructed for himself pitting Plainview against Sunday & forcing him to become even more vindictive & ruthless Anderson proved with Boogie Nights & Magnolia that he was adept at handling expansive storylines & layered plots; however he stakes out a claim here as a new master of the cinematic epic The film is visually stunning & alternates between lush widescreen shots of the desert & meticulously composed darkly lit close-up of his actors presenting complex images of the American landscape & the souls that dot it As a narrative There Will Be Blood is told with a sense of economy yet never at the expense of the film&s inherently grand scope It&s difficult to determine precisely what Anderson wants his viewers to take from the experience the film is in the end appropriately complex & ambiguous There Will Be Blood forces us to confront Plainville who seems to be a larger-than-life personification of evil; that we don&t entirely understand him at the film&s conclusion is not a shortcoming but rather a tribute to the depths of this most vile creature & this most brilliant film Note There Will Be Blood will be packaged in environmentally-friendly cardboard made from recycled paper ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A brutal bloody & gripping saga of obsession corruption & poisonous greed; Paul Thomas Anderson&s Award Winning There Will Be Blood is a masterly unwavering inspection of a consummately evil man whose trailblazing spirit is equalled only by his murderous ambition In the dying years of the nineteenth century Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) a struggling silver miner realises that true wealth lies in oil extraction Driven by a passionate hatred for others & an intense psychological need to see competitors fail he heads for the oil-rich land of California in a bid to manipulate & exploit the landowners of dust-worn Little Boston in to selling him their properties Forefront of the town is self-styled 'faith healer& Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) who is structuring his own sinister plan to funnel the residents& impending wealth into his self-founded church As Plainview&s empire expands so does his obsession with the intrinsic value of power & he becomes increasingly irascible & paranoid along the way What follows is a vindictive ruthless & violent chain of events as Plainview fails to deliver on promises as he pits himself against the town&s perturbed & unstable charismatic teenage preacher In addition to stunning visuals & an exceptional captivating score from accomplished composer (and Radiohead guitarist) Jonny Greenwood director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia) owes his best work to date to the incredible Academy Award winning performance as Plainview by Daniel Day-Lewis & the staggering portrayal of Eli Sunday by Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine) Bearing similarities to Citizen Kane & Giant There Will Be Blood is an intelligent thought-provoking & powerfully-eccentric epic masterpiece that is as enchanting as it is timeless ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Academy Award-winning drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) is a down-&-out silver miner who transforms himself into a rich oil tycoon When he learns of a small oil-rich town in California he moves there with his adopted son HW (Dillon Freasier) Using his son to project the image of a caring family man Plainview gains the co-operation of almost all the locals in the town with promises to build schools & cultivate the land to make their community flourish However over time Plainview&s gradual accumulation of wealth & power causes his true self to surface & he begins to slowly alienate himself from everyone in his life including his son ...

Shelby Jane Cooper is seventeen pretty & quiet It's just Shelby & her mom Shaylene a court stenographer who wears pyjama jeans stitches tapestry eats ice-cream for dinner & likes to keep Shelby safe So safe she barely goes out So safe she doesn't go to school Because anything could happen to a girl like Shelby Anything When Shelby gets knocked down by a car it's not just her leg that's broken Shelby's world is shattered Her mom turns up to collect her & drives off into the night like it's the beginning of a road trip like two criminals on the run like Thelma & Louise or Bonnie & Clyde & somehow everywhere she looks there's a coyote watching her talking to her telling her not to believe Who is Shelby Jane Cooper? If the person who keeps you safe also tells you lies who can you trust? ...

Shelby Jane Cooper is seventeen pretty & quiet It's just Shelby & her mom Shaylene a court stenographer who wears pyjama jeans stitches tapestry eats ice-cream for dinner & likes to keep Shelby safe So safe she barely goes out So safe she doesn't go to school Because anything could happen to a girl like Shelby Anything When Shelby gets knocked down by a car it's not just her leg that's broken Shelby's world is shattered Her mom turns up to collect her & drives off into the night like it's the beginning of a road trip like two criminals on the run like Thelma & Louise or Bonnie & Clyde & somehow everywhere she looks there's a coyote watching her talking to her telling her not to believe Who is Shelby Jane Cooper? If the person who keeps you safe also tells you lies who can you trustshortlisted for The CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2016 ...

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