Hard Eight Q&A with Paul Thomas Anderson

Name: Hard Eight Q&A with Paul Thomas Anderson
Genre: Drama
Released: 2026-05-14
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Cast: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow

<div style="text-align: center;">Festival Theaters ‘Month with the Programmer’ </div><div style="text-align: center;">Featuring David Ansen</div>Festival Theaters proudly presents the first edition of “Month with the Programmer,” an ongoing series spotlighting the voices and visionaries behind great film programming.  Our inaugural guest is David Ansen—A Palm Springs staple in our film going community, David Ansen was a movie critic for Newsweek from 1977 to 2008. He was the Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Film Festival from 2010 through 2014. For 10 years he was the Lead Programmer of the Palm Springs International Film Festival. In the 1990s he served for 8 years on the selection committee of the New York Film Festival. He has written documentaries for TNT, HBO and PBS on Greta Garbo, Groucho Marx, Bette Davis, and Elizabeth Taylor and has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, Interview, Cosmopolitan and other publications. The series begins on May 14 with Paul Thomas Anderson’s debut feature, Hard Eight (1996)—a quietly powerful character study that helped launch one of modern cinema’s most important filmmakers. The opening night screening will feature a can't miss post film discussion with Academy Award winning director Paul Thomas Anderson, moderated by David Ansen. Regular screenings of Hard Eight will continue daily through the remainder of the week beginning May 15. The Series Continues with:<ul><li>The Lady Eve (1941)</li><li>The Stunt Man (1980) </li><li>California Split (1974) </li></ul>Each film in the series will play daily for one week, inviting audiences to revisit—or discover—these essential works through the lens of one of film culture’s most respected voices with introductions and post film discussions at select screenings throughout the month.<div> </div>DramaPT1H42M2026-05-14

Philip Baker Hall

John C. Reilly

Gwyneth Paltrow

Paul Thomas Anderson

Robert Jones

John S. Lyons

Hard Eight Q&A with Paul Thomas Anderson"Hard Eight Q&A with Paul Thomas Anderson"

Showtimes

May 14, 7:30 pm