And you're right, PT Anderson is one of the young directors who knows how to use music brilliantly and I'll always be thankful that he revived Aimee Mann's career.
Richard Kelly impressed me with Donnie Darko as well (not so much with how he used the music, but which music he used). Haven't seen Southland Tales yet.
I wish we had more talented young directors in Europe, but European cinema is in a state of agony ever since Italy and especially France were the last countries to slowly lose their momentum sometime in the early 80s.
Ironically, many self-proclaimed cineasts among my friends are still arrogant and think all shit comes from NA and all quality comes from Europe. I keep telling them: Along with Asia, NA produces the main part of shit movies but also the main part of quality movies since the 90s until today.
Europe, on the other hand, gave up quality movies - i.e. good movies which you actually WANT to watch - years ago. Only a few directors, such as Spain's brilliant Pedro Almodóvar or UK's Ken Loach, are an exception to that rule.
