After five long years and a dozen false starts, cinephiles were finally treated Monday to the first footage of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master,” his first since his 2007 oil epic, “There Will Be Blood.”

Synopsis:
A 1950s-set drama centered on the relationship between a charismatic intellectual known as “the Master” whose faith-based organization begins to catch on in America, and a young drifter who becomes his right-hand man.

“The Master”
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams
Release: Oct 12, 2012