Hoezo in KINO

“You know the first thing they should’ve taught you at hooker school? You get the money up front!” Anderson’s quiet but powerful debut is a Nevada-set neo-noir about apprenticeship and coming to terms with one’s obsoletion. Philip Baker Hall plays the veteran casino dweller literally picking up a down and out newcomer (John C. Reilly) to instill his knowledge and experience on. Even with his first film, PTA knew how to draw a crowd of talent, with great turns from the likes of Gwyneth Palthrow, Samuel L. Jackson and Philip Seymour Hoffman, in a melancholic first feature that not only predicts future greatness, but already contains it. English language without subtitles.