a valentine to old musicals and the only film to feature both Philip Seymour Hoffman and an abandoned harmonium in key supporting roles. Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Punch-Drunk Love remains an outlie ...

In Punch-Drunk Love, the deeply rich and strange new romantic ... car crash and then picks up a harmonium deposited there by a cab. Barry has seven sisters who smother him with a condescension ...

(A harmonium is that rinky-dink little second ... Those moments come in "Punch-Drunk Love" as well, and they're the most startling, disturbing and, finally, in Barry's ultimate outburst, the ...

“Punch-Drunk Love” opens very early on a very quiet ... of Barry’s place of business and unceremoniously deposit a harmonium on the street. Or when an attractive woman named Lena Leonard ...

“Punch-Drunk Love” introduces us to Barry Egan (Sandler), a shy ... witnesses a jarring car crash that is followed immediately by the peculiar appearance of a harmonium that sits ominously on the ...

If you go into "Punch-Drunk Love" expecting a sweet little Adam Sandler ... Then a taxi mysteriously drops a harmonium on the sidewalk. Harmony is what this all-too-modern hero yearns for ...

Last week, we discussed the heartbreaking movie, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” and this week, we’ll be discussing the truly lesser-known romance, “Punch Drunk Love.” “Punch Drunk Love” ...

That harmonium is only the first of the ... His love for Lena makes him strong. Punch-Drunk Love isn't a dark comedy, exactly. There's no smirk or satire in it. It's more like a piece of anarchic ...

“With ‘Punch-Drunk Love,’ we were still drawn to the spirit ... This time, he wanted to include a harmonium into the plot and music. Next time — who knows?” ...

Someone sets a harmonium in the street near the start of ... But, of course, we want her to, too. All love stories are wish-fulfillment fantasies. Sandler's sad, puppy-dog face and gentle mien ...

A shy sad-sack with a great deal of repressed anger that occasionally bursts forth in sudden violent outrages falls in love with a co ... deposits a battered harmonium at his feet, a white Geo ...