Bright Lights After Dark’s Tom Sutpen on a lesser-known earlyish work from Paul Thomas Anderson, starring then-girlfriend Fiona Apple:

“Across the Universe” is a music video produced in connection with an immensely obvious and stupid movie of the late-nineties entitled Pleasantville (a film Anderson otherwise had nothing to do with); and if you have to call it something…you could say that you were seeing the one perfect expression of post-Christian martyrdom our culture has seen fit to cough up.

(Please excuse the reblogging––I’m weeding through an obscenely overstuffed post-vacation feed reader with one lobe and making Comic-Con plans with the other. In order to add a tiny bit of value to this post, here are some lazy links to a few other videos that PTA made for Apple: Fast as You Can; Paper Bag; Limp. Servicey!)