Even dating back to the beginning of his career, Paul Thomas Anderson has always liked working with musicians.
It’s not often you can make both your music and film friends angry with you at the same time.
Or at least tell them that you saw it on 35mm, which is the way the artist really intended it to be screened.
In 1997, while putting the finishing touches on Boogie Nights, Anderson and several of his cast members snuck in an iconic music video for Michael Penn’s Try (and yes, Michael is the older brother of actor-writer-director Sean).