843 - Punch Drunk Love (2002)

What happens when two seemingly incompatible masters of their craft with nothing to prove get together to make an discomforting powder keg character study that dramatically ratchets its way into a desperately... sweet romance?  You get director Paul Thomas Anderson's collaboration with Adam Sandler who plays Barry, a brow-beaten introvert who must contend with the demands of his bullying sisters, a phone-sex blackmail ring, and an unlikely love affair with the all-too understanding and equally smitten Lena, played by Emily Watson.

If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965).