Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice is slowly unleashing itself in a few theaters to sneak into the 2014 awards race before its wide release next year. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Doc Sportello, a strange, drug-taking private eye investigating the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend and finding himself in the middle of an insane mix of missing persons, police investigations and strange business ventures. This is the first Thomas Pynchon novel to the make it to the big screen (save for “Gravity’s Rainbow” inspiring the German docudrama Prüfstand VII). It’s a film that will never be a blockbuster success, though it boasts a cast ranging from Jena Malone and Owen Wilson to Jeannie Berlin and Eric Roberts; it’s just too weird. It is, however, a breath a freakish fresh air in a film landscape that’s gotten oppressively predictable. If this could start a trend where Hollywood embraces weird texts, there...
- 12/12/2014
- by Monika Bartyzel
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
It was an unfortunate turn of events when Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming film, 'The Master,' was "postponed indefinitely." We were losing our chance to see Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a man who makes his own faith-based organization, and turns a drifter (Jeremy Renner) into his "lieutenant." However, though the world of creative modern religion remains outside our cinematic grasp, Anderson might just have found a worthy substitute in the satirical, postmodern framework of Thomas Pynchon.
In what would the first English-language adaptation of Pynchon's work ('Gravity's Rainbow' was turned into the German film 'Prüfstand VII'), new reports claim that Anderson wants to adapt the novelist's most recent tome, the 2009 novel 'Inherent Vice.'
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It was an unfortunate turn of events when Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming film, 'The Master,' was "postponed indefinitely." We were losing our chance to see Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a man who makes his own faith-based organization, and turns a drifter (Jeremy Renner) into his "lieutenant." However, though the world of creative modern religion remains outside our cinematic grasp, Anderson might just have found a worthy substitute in the satirical, postmodern framework of Thomas Pynchon.
In what would the first English-language adaptation of Pynchon's work ('Gravity's Rainbow' was turned into the German film 'Prüfstand VII'), new reports claim that Anderson wants to adapt the novelist's most recent tome, the 2009 novel 'Inherent Vice.'
Continue Reading...
- 12/2/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Moviefone
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
It was an unfortunate turn of events when Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming film, 'The Master,' was "postponed indefinitely." We were losing our chance to see Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a man who makes his own faith-based organization, and turns a drifter (Jeremy Renner) into his "lieutenant." However, though the world of creative modern religion remains outside our cinematic grasp, Anderson might just have found a worthy substitute in the satirical, postmodern framework of Thomas Pynchon.
In what would the first English-language adaptation of Pynchon's work ('Gravity's Rainbow' was turned into the German film 'Prüfstand VII'), new reports claim that Anderson wants to adapt the novelist's most recent tome, the 2009 novel 'Inherent Vice.'
Continue Reading...
It was an unfortunate turn of events when Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming film, 'The Master,' was "postponed indefinitely." We were losing our chance to see Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a man who makes his own faith-based organization, and turns a drifter (Jeremy Renner) into his "lieutenant." However, though the world of creative modern religion remains outside our cinematic grasp, Anderson might just have found a worthy substitute in the satirical, postmodern framework of Thomas Pynchon.
In what would the first English-language adaptation of Pynchon's work ('Gravity's Rainbow' was turned into the German film 'Prüfstand VII'), new reports claim that Anderson wants to adapt the novelist's most recent tome, the 2009 novel 'Inherent Vice.'
Continue Reading...
- 12/2/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
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