Roxie Theater: There Will Be Blood (35mm)

Heralded by several critics as one of the best films of the 21st century, Anderson’s eight-time Oscar-nominated oil epic is a true cinematic masterpiece. Featuring brilliant co-stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano, the film depicts the brutal, bloody founding of his American oil empire, and is a soaring historical drama that both employs and ingeniously transcends the conventions of epic cinema – shocking and thrilling viewers at every turn. An enthralling exploration of greed, capitalism and violence, this opus thrives as a visually mesmerizing study of an iron-fisted oil baron and the developing American frontier he reigns over.