There Will Be Blood

Exclusive clip: "Goin' Fishing"

"I built my hate bit by bit." Daniel Day-Lewis earned his second Best Actor Academy Award for his riveting performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's sinewy film. Loosely adapted from Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!," it reworks the American entrepreneurial success story as an elemental frontier myth, roughly hewn out of the landscape that is remade in its wake. The magnificent opening pits lone prospector Daniel Plainview against the very earth itself, wordlessly digging his way to the American dream until his mine strikes a gusher. When he finally speaks some 15 minutes into the film, he has reinvented himself as a self-made oil man, and he finds his nemesis in a self-aggrandizing young preacher (Paul Dano) who set out to humble Plainview as he builds his church on Plainview's money. Day-Lewis' baritone rumble evokes John Huston, which is fitting as Plainview's story suggests the early days of Noah Cross from "Chinatown." Along the way he adopts and abandons a son (played by Dillon Freasier as a child) and discovers a brother (Kevin J. O'Connor) who is not as he seems. Robert Elswit's searing cinematography earned the film's second Academy Award. And be forewarned: The film earns its title by the closing credits.

The single-disc edition of the film includes no supplements beyond audio and subtitle options. The "2-Disc Collector's Edition," packaged in a stiff paperboard slip-sleeve, features a second disc with brief but evocative supplements. "15 Minutes: Pics, Research, Etc." surveys the research materials (photos and drawings and archival film clips) used for production reference in a montage intercut with appropriate shots from the film and set to the music of Radiohead member Jonny Greenwood. Also features two deleted scenes (including "fishing" for lost equipment in a collapsed well), a sample of dailies, the original teaser and trailer, and the 1923 nonfiction silent film "The Story of Petroleum," an archival presentation of an authentic filmed document accompanied by Greenwood's music.