Play it again, guys

摘要

Crossovers from the world of inde-pendent film to Hollywood are so common as to be positively ordinary. Still, eyebrows rose when Paul Thomas Anderson announced that he was making a film with Adam Sandier. Mr Sandier got rich making dumb comedies about Jerry Lewis-style idiots; Mr Thomas became the toast of the art-house set with two highly stylised features, "Boogie Nights" and "Magnolia", that staked out a niche somewhere between Robert Altman and Martin Scorsese. But the nay-sayers forgot the minor masterpieces―? "Artists and Models", "Hollywood or Bust"-that one of America's leading stylists, Frank Tashlin, made with Jerry Lewis in the 1950s. That magical fusion of eccentric comic talent and eye-popping cinematic hubris is back in "Punch-Drunk Love", which proves that Mr Anderson has a heart and, even more amazing, that Mr Sandier can act.