Paul Thomas Anderson's - There Will Be Blood - w/Daniel-Day Lewis and Paul Dano

Another selection as part of The Portland Art Museum's ongoing career retrospective of one of the greatest American directors in modern day cinema.

Synopsis: Anderson’s features, while always sharpening their edges as they go, have never been hard-as-nails as this adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s novel OIL!. Academy Award winner for Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis inhabits oilman Daniel Plainview, a leathery explorer intent on creating and quickly expanding an oil empire during the late-19th Century. With his adopted son as his partner, Plainview soon strikes it rich on the land of the Sunday family—and, ultimately, the surrounding land—until he’s nearly bought up an entire town. With his newfound success, Plainview is bombarded on all sides: by an estranged brother, by a larger oil company in search of a buy-out, and finally, by Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), an old school, up-and-coming evangelist with a new church inextricably wrapped into the local fabric. Structuring the film are the pull of capital and the spirit of discovery at all costs—an American odyssey with a spiking trajectory mirroring stock market booms and crashes. (158 mins.)

FYI - Goldstar has tickets to this show for $3.50 (it is actually a $0 + 3.50 service charge). You can buy online at goldstar.com