One Battle After Another Was Shot on Cameras From the 1950s

By The Backlot

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Leonardo DiCaprio and another actor in a tense car confrontation in One Battle After Another (2025)

Paul Thomas Anderson shot One Battle After Another on VistaVision cameras from the 1950s. The cameras had been personally restored by actor Giovanni Ribisi, who let the production use them. They shot 1.5 million feet of film. The camera system had not handled that volume in decades.

It was also the first time Anderson had done audience test screenings since Boogie Nights in 1997. He cut eight to ten minutes based on what he heard.

Anderson had been trying to adapt Thomas Pynchon's Vineland since the early 2000s. The film took about twenty years to crack.

Someone on Backlot just watched it. It is on Max now and it is worth a night.

Quick Facts

One Battle After Another Was Shot on Cameras From the 1950s

DirectorPaul Thomas Anderson

CastLeonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Chase Infiniti, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall

GenreThriller, Crime, Comedy

Release2025-09-23

Runtime162 min

Rated7.3/10

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PTA shot One Battle After Another on VistaVision cameras from the 1950s that Giovanni Ribisi personally restored. His first test screenings since Boogie Nights.