Punch Drunk Love Blu-ray
'Punch-Drunk Love' Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (2002) Criterion Collection Blu-ray | Restored HD transfer supervised by Anderson
Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, a lonely novelty-toilet-plunger salesman spends his days collecting frequent-flyer-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when he inadvertently attracts the affection of a mysterious woman, but their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss.
Fueled by the careening momentum of a baroque-futurist score by Jon Brion, the Cannes-award-winning Punch-Drunk Love channels the spirit of classic Hollywood and the whimsy of Jacques Tati into an idiosyncratic ode to the delirium of new romance.
Adam Sandler demonstrates remarkable versatility in his first dramatic role, alongside Emily Watson and the maniacal brio of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Special features include:
- Blossoms & Blood, a short 2002 piece by Anderson featuring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson, along with music by Jon Brion
- New interview with Brion
- New piece featuring behind-the-scenes footage of a recording session for the film’s soundtrack
- New conversation between curators Michael Connor and Lia Gangitano about the art of Jeremy Blake, used in the film
- Additional artwork by Blake
- Cannes Film Festival press conference from 2002
- NBC News interview from 2000 with David Phillips, the “pudding guy”
- Twelve Scopitones
- Deleted scenes
- Mattress Man commercial
- Essay by filmmaker, author, and artist Miranda July
