Fans of the former will know it for the throwaway masterwork it is: playful as a dolphin, plaintive as whale song, unsoundably profound as the blue Pacific. Partisans of the latter may find this one a tad slight. Across five decades now, he\x92s more or less alternated these West Coast chamber pieces with his more formidable symphonies (V Gravity\x92s Rainbow Mason & Dixon Against the Day). Inherent Vice deepens Pynchon\x92s developing California cycle, following The Crying of Lot 49 and Vineland with a shaggy-dog epic of Eden mansionized and Mansonized beyond recognition\x97yet never quite beyond hope. Blessed with a sympathetic hero, suspenseful momentum and an endlessly suggestive setting, the novel\x92s bones need only a touch of the screenwriter\x92s dark chiropractic arts to render perhaps American literature\x92s most movie-mad genius, of all things, filmable. But there\x92s a blissful, sportive magnanimity, too, a forgiveness vouchsafed to pimps, vets, cops, narcs and even developers that feels new, or newly heartfelt.
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Get ready for glancing excursions into maritime law, the nascent Internet, obscure surf music and Locard\x92s exchange principle (on loan from criminology), plus a side trip to the lost continent of Lemuria.
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More fertile still is Pynchon\x92s unmatched gift for finding new metaphors to embody old obsessions. Weve got our hands on the first official trailer of Inherent Vice, the upcoming crime drama movie directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin. Big\x92s strings is always a villain even bigger. Behind each damsel cowers another, even more distressed. There follow plots, subplots and counterplots till you could plotz. It all starts with Pynchon\x92s least conspicuous intro ever: \x93She came along the alley and up the back steps the way she always used to\x94\x97she being Doc\x92s old flame Shasta, fearful for her lately conscience-afflicted tycoon boyfriend, Mickey. We\x92re in early-\x9270s Southern California, so Gordita Beach inevitably suggests a kind of Fat City, too, ripe for the plundering of rapacious real estate combines and ideal for Pynchon\x92s recurring tragicomedy of America as the perfect wave that got away. The limited release run begins on December 12th.Pynchon sets his new novel in and around Gordita Beach, a mythical surfside paradise named for all the things his PI hero, Larry \x93Doc\x94 Sportello, loves best: nonnutritious foods, healthy babies, curvaceous femme fatales. Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp-all Thomas Pynchon. Inherent Vice, which has been adapted and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, is all about a stoner private detective named Larry Doc Sportello in 1970 southern California, called in by an. With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists. 6:00pm PT Film Review: ‘Inherent Vice’ The '60s are over, everyone is on the run, and there's nowhere to hide in Paul Thomas Anderson's audacious, fiercely funny Pynchonian stoner. 9, 2014 1:30 pm EST Paul Thomas Anderson's newest film, Inherent Vice, opens limited on December 12, but for the markets that don't get the film until January Warner Bros. It’s the tail end of the psychedelic `60s and paranoia is running the day and Doc knows that “love” is another of those words going around at the moment, like “trip” or “groovy,” that’s being way too overused-except this one usually leads to trouble. When private eye Doc Sportello’s ex-old lady suddenly out of nowhere shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend whom she just happens to be in love with, and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a loony bin…well, easy for her to say. Inherent Vice is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel. Joaquin Phoenix plays private eye Doc Sportello, who gets caught up in something big called the Golden Fang. In anticipation of the early release, the studio has released a fantastic new trailer for you to enjoy.
has released a new trailer for the movie called “Paranoia.” The twisted and amusing mystery gets a limited release this week so that it can qualify for the upcoming award season. Yesterday we posted six clips from Paul Thomas Anderson’s wonderfully weird-looking film Inherent Vice.
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