Most of Anderson’s whirlwind trips through the city he loves have received rapturous applause, and his fascination with California’s odd, tangled history is apparent in every one. However, few of his ...
Yep, That Was PynchonA publicist from Penguin has confirmed that the voice on the trailer for ‘Inherent Vice’ does indeed belong to Pynchon.
NEW YORK – The numbers are unavoidable. Paul Thomas Anderson has made seven feature films and he has made seven films set in California. “It’s just there, isn’t it?” sighs Anderson. “If there was ever ...
Like Anderson’s body of work, Inherent Vice is unusual. It’s often hazy, silly, and hard to follow. These qualities aren’t drawbacks. The film’s haphazardness is by design, underscoring the confusion ...
Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Joaquin Phoenix makes a fist and raps it three times on the arm of a chair. "It's like one's enough," he says about press interviews, forcing a grin. The three-time Oscar ...
Inherent Vice, adapted from the Thomas Pynchon book of the same name, represents the first major role for 34-year-old Waterston, who has had prior roles in Boardwalk Empire, Michael Clayton and Being ...
Thomas Pynchon?s ?Inherent Vice? is a big, clunky time machine of a novel that transports us back to the early 1970s, back to a California of surfers and surf bunnies, bikers and biker chicks, hippies ...
Inherent Vice is set in 1970 in a fictitious Southern California town, Gordita Beach (mentioned in Pynchon’s 1990 novel, Vineland, and bearing a resemblance to Manhattan Beach), where the protagonist, ...