Flagpole Special (1998)

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.

• Release Date: 1998-06-16
• Runtime: 0h 17min
• Production Country: United States of America
• Director: Paul Thomas Anderson