Director Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award-winning epic There Will Be Blood is out on DVD today. Two versions are available: a single-disc version and a special collector's edition with an additional bonus disc featuring among other things, a 1920s-era silent film on the early days of the oil industry, set to music by the film's scorer, Jonny Greenwood.
Director Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 epic There Will Be Blood, which earned two Academy Awards earlier this year for lead actor Daniel Day-Lewis (who also won the Golden Globe) and cinematographer Robert Elswit, is out on DVD today. Two versions are available: a single-disc version with the film and a special collector's edition with an additional bonus disc featuring behind-the-scenes footage on the making of the film, deleted scenes, alternate takes, and a 1920s-era silent film from the US Bureau of Mines on the early days of the oil industry, set to music by the film's scorer, Jonny Greenwood.
Greenwood's score for the film itself has been called "sublime" by NPR, "a movie music breakthrough" by the Boston Globe, and "revolutionary" by both Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly, and was compared by Alex Ross in The New Yorker to Bernard Herrmann's Citizen Kane score for the significance of its contribution to the film.
