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Short Cuts
Why this pick
Its interwoven Los Angeles lives, restless camera movement, and accumulating emotional collisions closely echo Magnolia’s panoramic, chance-haunted ensemble design.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1999 3h 9m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Magnolia
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Why this pick
Like Magnolia, it tracks damaged people across a shared suburban emotional landscape, but with a colder, more corrosive comic discomfort.
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Amores Perros
Why this pick
A violent accident binds several wounded lives in an urgent, multi-strand drama that shares Magnolia’s operatic emotion and sense of lives colliding.
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Boogie Nights
Why this pick
Another expansive Paul Thomas Anderson ensemble: fluid filmmaking, a vivid found-family ecosystem, and intimate personal crises rising into exhilarating emotional momentum.
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The Ice Storm
Why this pick
Its precisely observed suburban ensemble and gathering storm of loneliness offer Magnolia’s interest in fractured families, in a quieter and icier register.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The narrator recounts three instances of incredible coincidences and suggests that forces greater than chance play important roles in life.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tom Cruise
Frank T.J. Mackey
Philip Baker Hall
Jimmy Gator
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Phil Parma
Julianne Moore
Linda Partridge
William H. Macy
Donnie Smith
Jason Robards
Earl Partridge
John C. Reilly
Jim Kurring
Alfred Molina
Solomon Solomon