I’m skeptical but at the same time half-persuaded that a special Harry Knowles-orchestrated “secret screening” of Paul Thomas Anderson‘s There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage, 12.26) will be shown soon — perhaps on Saturday, 9.22 — at Austin’s Alamo Draft House (on South Lamar) as part of Fantastic Fest (9.20 to 9.27). Two sources — one direct, one second-hand — funnelled the info. Paramount Vantage reps denied or poured water on the story. Draft House honcho and festival organizer Tim League didn’t return calls.
