It's a shame that the immensely talented Daniel Day Lewis, who has appeared in only eight movies in the last 20 years, does so few films.

On the bright side, the English-born star has such a terrific track record for choosing plum roles that you can bet with confidence that almost anything he headlines will wind up being an Oscar-nominated picture.

The latest movie in Lewis' small but enviable portfolio is last year's beautiful, provocative, and often frightening There Will Be Blood, which is loosely based on an Upton Sinclair novel about an obsessive turn-of-the-century oilman.

In the lead role, Lewis turns his single-minded and socially dysfunctional oil tycoon into a powerful, terrifying, and amoral creature capable of performing acts of unexpected and utter evil.

Director and writer Paul Thomas Anderson, whose adaptation positively drips with the era's vernacular, deserves no small amount of credit for his role in the creation of this American masterpiece. Few films approach the sort of comprehensive period realism that There Will Be Blood so effortlessly achieves under Anderson's expert guidance.

The two-disc special edition comes in an artfully designed sepia cardboard box with the film's now famous "If I say I'm an oil man, you got to agree" monologue printed in its entirety on the inside flap.

Supplemental material includes an antique silent film that documents the oil business of the 1920s as well as a strikingly non-commercial making-of mini-doc.