Paul Thomas Anderson, USA, 1997, 35mm, 155 min. 

The man. The myth. The dick: Dirk Diggler. In a time when sex was in and the party seemed to never end, his name is synonymous with lust, but as the non-stop wonderland of the ‘70s comes to a close, so too will the business of pleasure. Naked—and quite comfortably so—in his ambitions to craft a towering paean to late-decade excess, the then-twenty-seven-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson captures the heart and humanity of Los Angeles’s dreamers with an extraordinary cast of stars including Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Heather Graham, Nicole Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, and, of course, Mark Wahlberg. Screening in 35mm!