Reading Inherent Vice

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/movies/paul-thomas-anderson-films-inherent-vice.html

I wonder if we'll ever see a film of Gravity's Rainbow

some people say this is close enough (i haven't read GR, and p much couldn't get anything out of the film)

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/impolex

if PTA is actually trying to do really quick, sharp visual comedy, it might be the hardest task he's set himself yet. looking forward to seeing how well it works.

Filming Thomas Pynchon is an exercise of futility

I feel positively-disposed towards this film adaptation

Looking forward to TP's cameo. Or at least the detective work to track it down.

i try to exercise my futility every day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfs22E7JmI

Yes.

oh man I can't wait. this is going to be the first movie I've seen in the theatre since Waking Life

I could tell you don't like cinema from that "futility" snob crap

Looks fantastic. Excited to see some of the darker themes of the novel work with the screwball comedy bits.

looks great

jena malone voiceover? pta mustve watched moodyssons 'container'

or uh Into the Wild

voiceover is joanna newsome, isn't it?

yea i think thats right actually

http://i.imgur.com/ieLGhzi.png

Glenn Kenny just now on Twitter: "I'm not yet prepared to write a full consideration, but my initial impression is that "Inherent Vice" is a capital-G Great Film." I asked him if it was faithful to tone/plot of the book; response: "Extremely faithful to plot and tone but with Anderson shifting the stresses at crucial points, making it his own."

Top comment from underneath the trailer on Youtube:

"SECULAR MOVIES/MEDIA ARE CORRUPTING OUR MORALS AND PUSHING US FARTHER AWAY FROM GOD, AND MORE TOWARDS SATAN. THIS TRAILER IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF EVERYDAY LIFE ON THIS SINFUL PLANET, WHERE THE WOMEN DRESS LIKE WHORES AND THE MEN ARE VIOLENT. I BET THERE IS PLENTY OF CURSING AND BLASPHEMY, TOO. BEWARE OF WHAT YOU WATCH ON TV AND THE INTERNET. PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN FROM THIS FALLEN WORLD. EVERYONE NEEDS JESUS CHRIST!

(I'd like to believe Pynchon wrote it himself)

More detail from Kenny

http://ow.ly/Cit50

NY Times profile of Anderson last weekend has him talking about Airplane! and Top Secret! as big inspirations for his approach to this (really).

Jeff Wells didn't understand it, so that's encouraging.

Opening credits are set to vitamin c apparently

http://youtu.be/foyAOoVagWw

http://www.vulture.com/2014/10/inherent-vice-review-new-york-film-festival.html

david edelstein review

it’s actually less coherent than Pynchon, no small feat.

Just excerpting at random.

And we have movie tie-in new book edition cover:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1N5EKWCIAAUoQV.jpg

I wonder if TP signed off on that, must have. Weird expression!

hey i didn't know martin donovan was in this

I wonder if TP signed off on that, must have.

Publishers usually retain control over cover art. They figure authors may write books, but covers sell books.

NY Times profile of Anderson last weekend has him talking about Airplane! and Top Secret! as big inspirations for his approach to this (really).

Maybe for about 3 seconds.

u get a screener bro?

Pleading the fifth.

This is a lot of fun. Tiny, obnoxious quibble about the names of at least three Southern California towns getting pronounced wrong by the actors (Palos Verdes, San Ysidro... one other I can't remember). It didn't seem intentional, but it's weird given that PTA is So Cal born-and-bred. Then again, at the Q&A after the film, he kept pronouncing Thomas Pynchon's name as "Pinch-ON" with a pronounced and significant stress on the 'on.' It's more "Pinch'n," isn't it? Weird. Who knows.

in simpsons episode pynchon pronounces it like anderson did

Huh. I've been saying it wrong since I first heard of the guy!

The Simpsons may not be the most reliable of guides in such matters.

i suspect thomas pynchon knows how his own name is pronounced

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1791528/keywords

i suspect thomas pynchon knows how his own name is pronounced

canning his own red herring

gr8080's link reminds me of the library subject headings for The Crying of Lot 49:

California--Fiction. Married women--Fiction. Administration of estates--California--Fiction.

whoa when i read that format i can smell the library

new trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTRMkQzFYHI

by some miracle of coincidence I am going to have babysitting this weekend and will actually get to see this in the theater

oh goddammit no I can't, the screening in Oakland is already sold out BAH

Chicago too

where is it screening in Chicago?

loled hard at that cop shove

vitamin c sounds so good in that!! i heard it playing in the elevator at the hotel where i work this week and did an eyebrow raise; would be awesome if it had a huge comeback this winter.

not opening in Austin this weekend = aarrrrghgh!!!