Paul Thomas Anderson has turned into one of the most relevant filmmakers of today. His cinema, full with characters living on the edge, have generated some of the most powerful images in the last 30 years of cinema. This potency is also accompanied by a general conception of the world which, beyond its light and darkness, ends up always obsessed with characters who own a boundless energy, whose limits seem unknown even to the filmmaker himself. This online course, which will combine live classes with written material and recorded lectures, is an attempt in analyzing this filmography, from the very beginning until the recent release of Licorice Pizza.