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Wednesday, February 5 7pm2014 Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson 1.85:1 Color DCP 148 min.
"'Inherent Vice'...(based on Thomas Pynchon's exquisite stoner mystery set at the dawn of the '70s), is a wondrously fragrant movie, emanating sweat, the stink of pot clouds and the press of hairy bodies. It's a film you sink into, like a haze on the road, even as it jerks you along with spikes of humour. 'Go back to the beach, you smell like a patchouli fart,' growls Josh Brolin's flat-topped LA detective, Bigfoot Bjornsen, to our dazed hero, Doc (Joaquin Phoenix), an unlikely private eye, but one you can't help rooting for.
We're in a semifictional California, sort of like the real thing but scented with hallucinogenic behaviour, weird restaurant menus and Manson-era paranoia. (Maybe that's not so altered at all.) 'Inherent Vice' is the first time that Pynchon's elaborately dense prose has made it to the screen, and for good reason. Finally, with this novel, a recognisable thrust could be seen: an us-versus-them hippie fantasia decked out in the trappings of noir. Anderson doesn't so much adapt the novel as hawk it up on the screen proudly, in faithful chunks. (His screenplay is said to have received the author's blessing.) And the movie he's ended up with is astounding: literary, loose-limbed and simply impossible to make head or tales of, if you want a straightforward story. Relax a little." (TimeOut)
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5904 York Rd, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21212, 5904 York Rd, Baltimore, MD 21212-3026, United States,Baltimore, Maryland, Towson
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