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Oil be damned ; There Will Be Blood (15)

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From: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
Date: 20080215
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There Will Be Blood (15)

Adapted from Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel, Oil!, There Will Be Blood is one of this year's Oscar front-runners, nominated for eight statuettes including Best Picture, Best Director (Paul Thomas Anderson) and Best Actor In A Leading Role (Daniel Day-Lewis).

Day-Lewis, a Bristol Old Vic Theatre School old boy, won a Best Actor Bafta for his role this week.

Technically, Anderson's film takes the breath away, establishing a mood of grim foreboding with a largely dialogue-free 15-minute salvo that melds Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood's avant-garde electronic score with ...

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