DaveyJoe

I am probably in the minority, but Punch-Drunk Love is my favorite PTA film, even though I hate Adam Sandler movies.

inri222

All my opinion of course :

The Master is PTA's second best film just slightly below TWBB. With Punch-Drunk Love, PTA started moving away from an Almanesque style of filmmaking.
By the time he made TWBB he established more of his own style and that progression further evolved with The Master.

dex14

hanshotfirst1138

Damn, I keep intending to listen to the audiobook, but I have so many podcasts to catch up with!

inri222

http://cigsandredvines.blogspot.com/...-out-from.html

First 'Vice' Reactions Roll Out From Industry Insiders; Doubts Cast On Cannes Premiere

8 months before Inherent Vice is set to hit theatres, and nearly 8 months after it officially entered post-production, we are starting to get some faint glimmers of what form the film's exhibition will take. With the 2014 Cannes Film Festival's full competition lineup slated to be announced this Thursday, April 17, we will finally have concrete resolution for one of the film's most hyped-up potential premiere venues once and for all. Unfortunately, according to a new report by Jeffrey Wells over at Hollywood Elsewhere, an Inherent Vice debut at Cannes is not looking likely.
This morning I spoke to an industry friend who's seen Vice and who thinks it's brilliant and mesmerizing in an atmospheric, non-linear sort of way. He says that [Paul Thomas] Anderson, currently doing the sound mix, doesn't really want to subject Vice to Cannes and would rather take his time and tinker around over the summer and then unveil it in Telluride/Venice/Toronto.
This follows what a friend told me a week or two ago, which is that Cannes topper Thierry Fremaux "has been courting and wooing PTA like mad to get Inherent Vice to Cannes, and that PTA has been telling him since January that it would be very tight for him to get post-production done in time and that he wouldn't show it to Thierry until then. Perhaps PTA would privately like to go to Cannes, but I'm also told that Warner Bros. is against the idea, considering it too early given its December release date. If PTA insists and finishes the film to his satisfaction over the next couple of weeks, he could probably prevail over WB, but the latest I hear is that everything is still very much up in the air."

Of course, a healthy grain of salt should be taken with this information, given that the sources are all anonymous and that the situation appears to very much still be fluid. In any event, we will know one way or another in only a few days' time.

The much less nerve-racking take-away from this development is that the film (to the few eyes that have seen it) is apparently as astonishing as we all want it to be. The provided some other anonymous impressions of the movie from one lucky insider today:

Mix together The Big Lebowski and [Robert] Altman's The Long Goodbye and turn it into a two-and-a-half hour PT Anderson epic and you're getting close to the awesome experience of Inherent Vice. Even Joaquin Phoenix's performance has echoes of '70s Elliott Gould with a touch of The Dude. But don't get me wrong, the film is its own animal. A drug-fueled detective story filled with great psychedelic music and beautiful, grainy cinematography. It's both hilarious and confounding at times. But Anderson does an incredible job of making the incredibly complex plot both comprehensible and entertaining. Even though he's apparently said he's still tinkering, it felt like a finished film and will definitely go down as one of my favorites of his.

242 days.

Throwing Copper

Oh, I cannot wait to see this. Sounds like it's going to be awesome.

johnnysd

Yeah, people see movies differently. I think the Master is almost laughably pretentious and a terrible movie. I think TWBB is a good movie but very very overrated.

inri222

Roger Ebert gave Blue Velvet a 1 star review & Paul Haggis' Crash 4 stars.
Leonard Maltin gave Taxi Driver 2 stars & Slumdog Millionaire 4 stars.

We all see every movie differently.

hanshotfirst1138

"We all watch the same film, but we see different films."
Mark Kermode

It's one of the great things about cinema.

dex14

Hopefully we see a trailer soon.

Throwing Copper

I thought this wasn't coming out until 2015. So glad it'll be here in mid-December. Cannot wait.

We all loved the performances in The Master, but I think PTA dropped the ball from a directing standpoint. So much good material there. Should have been a much better film.

Hazel Motes

grrrrrrr. no more bumps that aren't a trailer!!!!!!

james2025a

I like the Wolverine look of Mr. Phoenix.

inri222

Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro & Joaquin Phoenix



Joaquin Phoenix & Martin Short on the set

inri222

Throwing Copper

Anyone know who that actress is?

RichC2

Katherine Waterston

devilshalo

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dex14

Oh my god I'm in love.

Throwing Copper

Looks good. Can't wait.

RichC2

Looks fantastic.

Ash Ketchum

There was an interview with Anderson in The New York Times this past Sunday and it was a very good piece. I'm not a big fan of Anderson, but I want to see this film. He says he was inspired by the NAKED GUN films and "Police Squad."

I'm also intrigued by Thomas Pynchon, who's supposed to have a cameo in the film, although no one will "confirm" it. I know little about Pynchon or his work. No one I know ever read his books or at least told me they did. No one ever recommended his books to me, but the way they're described in the Anderson interview really piques my interest.

GoldenJCJ

That looks great!

"Did I hit you?"

Coral

Awesome. I rarely ever go to the theatres... but it's a PTA film, so as usual - I'm already there.

I read about a third of the book and strangely wasn't enjoying it and gave up - which is just as well, I'd rather go in fresh (or fresh enough) to a PTA film anyway.

Can't wait.

Throwing Copper

Here is the recent NY Times article with a PT Anderson interview on the film.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/mo...vice.html?_r=0