Thomas Butt is a senior writer at Collider who focuses on classic movies.
Released in 1997 to critical acclaim, Boogie Nights is one of the most vibrant works of cinema from a sheer virtuosic perspective. A film where every shot, whip pan, dolly zoom, and tracking shot is designed to leave the viewer in awe, it marked the arrival of Paul Thomas Anderson as a prominent director.
Even at two and a half hours, P.T. Anderson left plenty on the cutting room floor with over 20 minutes of deleted scenes on the Boogie Nights DVD/Blu-ray. These scenes match the freewheeling tone of the film, but they are ultimately extraneous to the greater picture. The stand-out deleted scene is also the longest, an unbroken 7-minute take of Dirk performing a scene in a bar with Maurice Rodriguez as his Brock Landers character, a pornographic mashup of 007 and Dirty Harry.
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