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Flagpole Special

1998·17'

Paul Thomas Anderson

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★ 6.3

Commissioned for Creative Time’s RET.inevitable in 1998, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Flagpole Special is a DV short showing John C. Reilly and Chris Penn from the waist down, riffing on pickup-seminar bravado that anticipates Magnolia’s “Seduce and Destroy.” Screened once under the Brooklyn Bridge and never released, it’s now regarded as a lost film.

Cast

Chris Penn Chris Penn
John C. Reilly John C. Reilly

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