Paul Thomas Anderson
There Will Be Blood (Il Petroliere)

I also occasionally browse newspapers, rarely the paper ones like they used to be, more often the online ones, and today I stumbled upon the news that the sixty-year-old actor (the only thing we have in common is that we're almost the same age) Daniel Day-Lewis will leave the set once and for all to retire and do what he likes most, and while scrolling through some of the titles I've missed, I decided to watch “There Will Be Blood”, a film that was already reviewed here on Deb years ago.

There's not much to say even though the film lasts just under 3 hours.

The oilman “There Will Be Blood” is a 2007 film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair.

The leading actor Daniel Day-Lewis plays a Texan miner who becomes a powerful oilman in early 20th century California. (quoting the first two paragraphs in summary from Wikipedia)

What can I add of my own if not a few small impressions, at times it vaguely resembles a frontier western, with its landscapes and protagonists (from the first to the last), there's the old-style silver prospector like the gold rush, there's the fanatic preacher (and as will be seen ultimately quite hypocritical, just for a change...), there are gratuitous murders left unpunished, and there's the underlying greed associated with wanting to get rich at all costs, the soundtrack is very diverse and ranges from classical music to let's say "contemporary" music (there's no jazz/rock/blues/ragtime etc., to be clear), I didn't know the director (one of my countless gaps) but he manages excellently and I believe, as they say, he has little to learn, although ehm, one never stops doing so), the cinematography is excellent enough to have earned the 2nd Oscar (the 1st was deservedly won by DD-L as best leading actor).

Ah yes, almost forgot, one last thing from the third paragraph also on Wikipedia (what can I say, for me wiki is like parsley and I put it everywhere) informs us that:

The film is dedicated to the memory of Robert Altman.