Magnolia

…shows, contributing songs to Anderson’s Magnolia (1999) and writer-director Judd Apatow’s This Is 40 (2012). Her music has also been featured in such TV series as Joan of Arcadia, Girls, The Handmaid’s Tale, Euphoria, and Ted Lasso.

…length of his next film, Magnolia (1999), put off some viewers, but its interwoven stories—set during one day in southern California’s San Fernando Valley—found critical acclaim. Magnolia earned Anderson his second Oscar nomination for best original screenplay, and his adept handling of the film’s diverse cast of characters evoked the…

…and Paul Thomas Anderson in Magnolia (1999). Italian directors have experimented with the epic form, as in Ermanno Olmi’s L’albero degli zoccoli (1979; The Tree of Wooden Clogs) and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Novecento (1976; 1900) and The Last Emperor (1987), and with narrative structure, as in Roberto Rossellini’s