Flagpole Special (1998)
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.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
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Chris Penn as |
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John C. Reilly as |
| Directing | Paul Thomas Anderson | Director |
| Writing | Paul Thomas Anderson | Writer |