Movie

Flagpole Special (1998)

• June 16, 1998
• 17m

• Comedy
• Drama

Overview

Commissioned for Creative Time’s RET.inevitable in 1998, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Flagpole Special is a DV short showing John C. Reilly and Chris Penn from the waist down, riffing on pickup-seminar bravado that anticipates Magnolia’s “Seduce and Destroy.” Screened once under the Brooklyn Bridge and never released, it’s now regarded as a lost film.

Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Writers

Paul Thomas Anderson

Starring

Chris Penn, John C. Reilly