Paul Thomas Anderson films

Order the Paul Thomas Anderson films by year of release. You place all 10 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Paul Thomas Anderson films
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release years and dates
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How the Paul Thomas Anderson film timeline works

A short deck: Paul Thomas Anderson's features, each card printed with just its title, to be put in release order. One begins on the line with its year shown. You place each new card in a gap among those already down. Place it well and the year comes into view; a wrong one still sends the film to its proper spot and costs one of your three lives.

With so few cards, every gap is wide and every choice matters. He moved from sprawling ensemble pieces toward tighter, stranger period films, with a couple of returns to lighter, looser stories. Several films are set in Los Angeles or elsewhere in California, so place doesn't help much, and his habit of long breaks between films makes the spacing hard to judge.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 10 of the 10 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Hard Eight
  • Boogie Nights
  • Magnolia
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • There Will Be Blood
  • The Master
  • Inherent Vice
  • Phantom Thread
  • Licorice Pizza
  • One Battle After Another

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