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	PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE
		Love is less than half the length of Magnolia, though it still has its share of long, ballsy tracking shots, a spot-on score (courtesy of Jon Brion) and familiar San Fernando Valley setting.
		Part of Love deals with Barry's discovery of a marketing loophole that enables him to earn frequent flier miles by the thousands even though he's never once set foot on a plane (that particular thread is based on a true story).
		While it's nowhere as demanding or profound as his previous films, Love might still be a bit challenging if you've been watching shit like Sweet Home Alabama for the last two months.
	www.sick-boy.com /punchdrunk.htm (725 words)

	Punch-Drunk Love - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Punch-Drunk Love is a 2002 film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
		Paul Thomas Anderson created a music video for the song "Here We Go" that focuses on a scene cut from Punch-Drunk Love in which Barry cries in his office and then goes to Lena's apartment to take her out on a date.
		Working titles included Punchdrunk Knuckle Love, Just Desserts and The X-4 Project
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Punch-Drunk_Love (852 words)

	Punch-Drunk Love
		Love is the only thing that can force me to stick to a budget because when you have love you are never poor.
		Next then I knew she came from nowhere and punched me in the head and ripped my to the floor by my hair, dragging my to the door, telling me to "fuck off." I was in utter shock.
		I'm not so sure that love is the right word, at the moment it is too strong, but if he let me I could fall in love with him so easily.
	punch-drunklove.blogspot.com (12266 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Punch-Drunk Love Movie Review
		Punch-Drunk Love is easily one of the best films of the year, an open mouth kiss delivered with the ferocity of a street brawl.
		In many ways Punch-Drunk Love could have been part of Anderson's ensemble drama Magnolia, as the characters here come together and pull away with that film's quirky rhythm.
		Punch-Drunk Love demonstrates an unusual understanding of strong feelings, interlacing sharp jabs with the laughter.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /punchdrunklove.html (889 words)

	Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
		Much of "Punch-Drunk Love"'s story is how Egan manages to regain control of himself and experience truly human feelings for the first time.
		Much of the joy of "Punch-Drunk Love" is that you never truly know where the movie is going to go next.
		Quotes: Barry: I have a love in my life.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0272338 (938 words)

	Punch-Drunk Love Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		To explain the off-kilter power of Punch-Drunk Love is nearly impossible: So alien yet incredibly human is the movie, that it frequently puts the viewer into a state of Barry-phobia.
		Films can overdose on capriciousness, however, and this is definitely a problem with Punch-Drunk Love.
		Similarly, Jeremy Blake's color beams that stream through the picture with lovely and sometimes ominous feeling appear even more important.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=136465 (2250 words)

	Punch-Drunk Love
		Yet Punch-Drunk Love is more than an exercise in genre explosion: it is an exploration of the actual euphoria of new love, perhaps even first love, in all its uncontainable passion and rash acts.
		Punch-Drunk Love is a work of Beckett-ian poetry, a carefully structured scream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but unquestionably alive.
		Punch-Drunk Love tethers Sandler's propensity towards mining lisps, race, and so on for humour as it gives careful rein to the sudden violent outbursts that Sandler, heretofore, had always used to comic effect.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/punchdrunklove.htm (538 words)

	Filmtracks: Punch-Drunk Love (Jon Brion)
		Punch-Drunk Love is in a musical limbo area, not demanding a score of any one particular type of Hollywood norm, and what Anderson ended up requesting was an approach similar to that of Magnolia, for which Aimee Mann had written cultishly popular song material.
		But the truly bizarre nature of Punch-Drunk Love is put on display in three of the first four cues, when orchestral and electronic elements are mutilated badly and on purpose.
		The aspects of Punch-Drunk Love that follow a (song) musical format make sense, and the four or five songs in the film and on album do set a very distinct, whimsical atmosphere for the film.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/punch_drunk.html (918 words)

	Moviehole.net - Punch-Drunk Love
		Similar to Jim Carrey’s doorway into drama with “The Majestic”, “Punch Drunk Love” is a diminutive semi-claustrophobic piece utilizing the magnetism and likeability of Sandler, but leaving his caricatures and goofiness out of the performance.
		The Adam Sandler you know — and admittedly love — is nowhere to be found in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Punch Drunk Love”, but fortunately a promising actor with a career outside of fart jesting is.
		“Punch Drunk Love” may be the most credible film Adam Sandler has done — but it’s certainly not the best Paul Thomas Anderson has done.
	www.moviehole.net /reviews/427.html (578 words)

	Metaphilm - Punch-Drunk Love
		Punch-Drunk Love took the prize for best director at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and received critical raves for taking the genre of romantic comedy “to its absurdist limits.”[1] Romantic comedies, almost by definition, include a binary gender construction—male and female.
		Throughout Punch-Drunk Love we seem to be given many views of the way women attempt to coerce men into various performances, but when it comes to empowerment, we find only one clear direction to go—cathartic love.
		It ends with a man hopeful that his cathartic love can sustain the punch-drunk masculine journey on which he has embarked.
	metaphilm.com /philm.php?id=290_0_2_0 (4161 words)

	PIXELSURGEON Reviews Movies Punch Drunk Love
		As diametrically opposed to our notion of conventional Hollywood movies as it's possible to get, with their nothing-left-to-chance scripts and brain-dead action, Punch Drunk Love is the reason you’ve been subconsciously trudging back and forth from the cinema and the video store all this time.
		And in a year where we’ve seen a record number of sequels leaving Hollywood, it becomes even harder not to fall for the enigmatic brazen subtlety that is Punch Drunk Love.
		Of course, Sandler has played the loveable put-upon everyman before, but somehow Anderson has managed to turn this famous caricature into a distinguished portrait.
	www.pixelsurgeon.com /reviews/review.php?id=235 (1109 words)

	Movie Forums - Punch Drunk Love
		But there is something I love about this film and that is its completely unique story itself.
		To say it is an unconventional love story is an understatement.
		I liked Emily Watson and the believable way she portrayed herself in an almost unbelievable love affair.
	www.movieforums.com /community/printthread.php?t=3216 (515 words)

	Blogcritics.org: PUNCH DRUNK LOVE
		Actually, Punch Drunk Love is the 4th film from P.T. Hard Eight is the first one is well worth the time and effort it might take to find it at the video store.
		I was over at my sorta-girlfriend's house tonight, and she had just received "Punch Drunk Love" in the mail from Netflix.
		"oh it is love" can be found on limewire, bearshar...
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/06/27/021213.php (1738 words)

	Life, the Universe, and Everything
		The love story reminded me of some ways of Punch-Drunk Lovebut coupling this with her altruism makes this film magnificent.
		#2 Punch-Drunk Love: This was originally my top film of the year because nothing else gave me such a feeling as this.
		I love this musical because there isn't a likable slob in the bunch...all murderers or shady lawyers and jailers, all of them obsessed with fame and money...but at least all of the characters are interesting.
	www.yossalu.com /reviews.html (3533 words)

	Amazon.com: Punch-Drunk Love (Two Disc Special Edition) (Superbit Collection) (2002): DVD
		"Punch Drunk Love" has been described as a "strange romantic comedy," as "quirky" and "eccentric." In truth, the comedy is pitch-black and the romance is as dysfunctional as in any of Anderson's movie.
		Punch-Drunk Love is not typical Superbit fare, but the higher bit rate does beautifully present cinematographer Robert Elswit's striking colors, including the Jeremy Blake art.
		The first half of Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, "Punch-Drunk Love," is one of the most unsettling experiences I've had in a movie theater in some time.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000G02H?v=glance (2574 words)

	Punch-Drunk Love (2002): Reviews
		Punch-Drunk Love buries a terrific performance by Adam Sandler under a heap of faux cleverness, meaningless symbolism and irritating mannerisms.
		Punch-Drunk Love is one dark, strange-tasting sorbet, its sweetness shot through with startling, unexpected flavors.
		Despite its title, Punch-Drunk Love is never heavy-handed.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/punchdrunklove (1456 words)

	The Horse: Punch-Drunk Love
		It's that tender, affectionate kind of observation that makes Anderson a great film-maker, and Punch-Drunk Love, for those who recognise a fair amount of Barry Egan in themselves, a uniquely moving experience.
		It is a love story, but it's not so much a question of two people being made for each other.
		Anderson's examining a specific part of first love: the fight to believe that you're worthy of it.
	www.the-horse.net /punchdrunk.htm (719 words)

	Punch Drunk Love
		A few interesting story lines take to screen, but even fewer are developed to fruition, making "Punch Drunk Love" feel more like a slice of life film or...
		Magnolia." With such an "odd" pairing, I eagerly anticipated "Punch Drunk Love." Then, for some reason, I simply forgot about the director and expected a slapstickin', good ol' Sandler picture.
		"Punch Drunk" is a little Woody Allen, a little David Lynch, a little French, a little artsy, a dash Sandler and Emily Watson.
	www.rossanthony.com /P/punchdl.shtml (327 words)

	SPLICEDwire "Punch-Drunk Love" review (2002) Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Sandler, Emily Watson
		Dingbat love has never been as oddly appealing as in "Punch-Drunk Love," a surrealistically fluffy romance from the traditionally somber Paul Thomas Anderson ("Boogie Nights," "Magnolia").
		Captivating, capricious and delectably eclectic, "Punch-Drunk Love" is every inch an Anderson movie that decyphers its characters' souls while leaving layers of subliminal import to work their way into your consciousness over the days and weeks afterwards in beguiling little ways.
		Affably, obligingly abstract from the curiously inspired casting of Adam Sandler as a meek, sad, eccentric romantic hero to the peculiar plot about sex chat-line extortion and pudding-procured frequent flyer miles, it's a charming, strange little movie that strikes at the heart while the head is still trying to figure it out.
	www.splicedonline.com /02reviews/punchdrunklove.html (663 words)

	The Flick Filosopher Punch-Drunk Love
		Punch-Drunk Love in its entirety is not pointless -- as a portrait of repression, it's downright poignant, and though I've always thought Adam Sandler was pretty pathetic, now I mean it in the good, moving way.
		PDL is Barry's show, and he's simply too hauntingly sad for any other emotion to peek through.
		His Barry Egan, a lonely mouse of a man, lives under the endless sniping of his numerous domineering sisters, and Sandler is ingratiating enough to make us see the problem not in his inability to get past their childish teasing, which obviously continues unabated since childhood, but in their childish teasing itself.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/2002/punchdrunklove.shtml (755 words)

	The DVD Journal Reviews : Punch-Drunk Love
		Punch-Drunk Love is funny, and the character Sandler plays is not too far removed from his long line of bombastic, goofballing miscreants.
		Not only does the 35 minutes of special features material feel too scant to warrant a separate platter (especially alongside a 95-minute feature), with the exception of "Mattress Man" and the first of the two deleted scenes, neither does any of it add any value to Punch-Drunk Love, instead simply reorganizing the movie's elements.
		Anderson seems obsessed with the perils of the emotional journey through a dangerous world of random accidents and unearned violence; a world where stepping up to the curb of a hectic thoroughfare is no less precarious than taking the first step toward a new romance.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/p/punchdrunklove.shtml (738 words)

	Movie Photos: Punch-Drunk Love
		PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE is another overrated film by writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson (MAGNOLIA and BOOGIE NIGHTS).
		2002 Punch-Drunk Love stars Luis Guzman and Adam Sandler
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	www.allmoviephoto.com /photo/2002_Punch-Drunk_Love_photo.html (568 words)

	Review: Punch Drunk Love
		Punch Drunk Love is quirky and stylish, but not in a manner that comes across as overly artsy or pretentious.
		In the end, Punch Drunk Love's real strength is its willingness to take off on some unexpected tangents: the phone sex extortion, the massive accrual of frequent flier miles, and Barry's bizarre obsession with a certain musical instrument.
		But Punch Drunk Love is unapologetically offbeat, and, while the chemistry between Sandler and Watson never really sizzles, there's enough between them to keep the viewer interested.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/punch_drunk.html (860 words)

	Cannes Film Festival
		This is what the producer, Joanne Sellar, of his last three films had to say about Punch-Drunk Love: "After Magnolia, which was a huge, dark, challenging movie.
		Starring famous American comedian, Adam Sandler, and Emily Watson (Breaking the waves), Punch-Drunk Love portrays a punchy romance between a small business owner and a mysterious woman.
		After 1997's oscar-nominated Boogie Nights and 1999's 3 hour long oscar-nominated, Magnolia, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is in Cannes this year to present his highly anticipated new motion picture, Punch-Drunk Love.
	www.festival-cannes.org /films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=3124026 (191 words)

	Cinema Confidential News: 10/10/02 - 4-STAR REVIEW: "Punch Drunk Love"
		Punch-Drunk Love is a wonderfully weird, offbeat story about a guy who has pretty much stood around in one place his entire life but finds love, and finds the courage to move forward with his life.
		At one point, Barry makes his first trip ever on an airplane to meet his love in Hawaii and his eagerness is sweet and affecting.
		He’s always trying to hold on to his private life, never wants to try anything new and is socially terrified because of a family that doesn’t connect to him but dismisses him as strange.
	www.cinecon.com /news.php3?d=021010&n=3 (855 words)

	MBR: Internet Bookwatch, April 2003
		Filled with emotion, a willingness to work, love for her family and her many children, and a great deal more, American Grit provides contemporary readers with a compelling and enjoyable look through a kind of "window of time" at daily life in rugged terrain.
		Carl McColman's When Someone You Love Is Wiccan: A Guide to Witchcraft and Paganism for Concerned Friends, Nervous Parents, and Curious Co-Workers (1564146227, $13.99) provides a concise explanation of wicca for those who have little knowledge of the pagan spirituality.
		Of special value to Wiccans are the additional chapters devoted to "Love Foods and Practical Magic", "Using Herbs and Spices Magically", "Lunar Lessons and Moonlit Menus", and "Goddess-Worth Beverages".
	www.midwestbookreview.com /ibw/apr_03.htm (14535 words)

	blog.noetech.com: Punch-Drunk Love & Others
		i was able to see Punch Drunk Love at the english language night at the cinema...it was so funny, one of my favorites..right up there with TBL.
		I was also able to catch Punch-Drunk Love last night.
		I loved Magnolia though so I'm not gonna rip on the director I think he made it to amuse stupid college kids who think any movie that doesn't make sense is "cool"
	blog.noetech.com /archives/2003/07/02/punchdrunk_love_others.shtml (215 words)

	Punch-Drunk Love
		Punch-Drunk Love is a strange romantic comedy done in the manner that only Anderson could conceive.
		His role in Punch-Drunk Love works because of auteur Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Boogie Nights).
		Now, given a chance to be in a serious film, Sandler shows that he is capable of more.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/punch-drunk_love.html (599 words)

	BenFolds.org - punch drunk love
		I've never heard of it, I thought this thread was just about when you get pissed and punch the person you love.
		As I grew older I became a drunk.
		That happens to me alot, but it's cool because she kicks the shit out of me when I'm sober.
	www.benfolds.org /forum/7396 (926 words)

	Punch-Drunk Love
		Punch-Drunk Love is perhaps above all a visceral experience.
		And if we buy the arrested little boy blue in the romance of the rose-pink savior, it is because their ragged, jagged, non-conforming edges click together like cut-to-specs pieces in a magical misfit puzzle.
		With an artfilm air and a multiplex echo, it bleeds a sunlit romantic fantasy of Kool-Aid blue and pink through a realist nightshade screen of loneliness - details its human silences with alternating outbursts of harmony and dissonance - and makes us feel the inarticulable.
	www.cinescene.com /shari/punchdrunk.html (665 words)

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