Movie

Flagpole Special

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.

Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson

Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Status

Released

Release date

16/06/1998

Original language

English