(Paul Thomas Anderson, US/Canada 2021, 133 min., 35mm)
Paul Thomas Anderson’s film prior to One Battle After Another was this sweet-and-sour 1970s coming-of-adulthood film starring Cooper Hoffman in his film debut. Gary Valentine (Hoffman), a fading child star, meets the older Alana Kane (Alana Haim) when she comes to his high school to take student pictures. Infatuated, Gary convinces Alana to spend time with him as friends, beginning a relationship that spans friendship, desire, waterbeds, pinball machines, agents, nudity, motorcycles, and hairdressers, in addition to the difference between fifteen and twenty-five. The most recent release in the George Eastman Museum collection, take the rare opportunity to see this film on a 35mm print the night before the Oscars.