Madfilm Meetup:
Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | USA | 2015 | 158 min
Sundance Cinemas, Tuesday, January 13, 7;30pm»
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Kick off our new year of Madfilm Meetups with a trip to the trippy 1970s Los Angeles in Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s INHERENT VICE. Joaquin Phoenix leads an all-star cast in this dense sun-splashed noir about a private eye who is pulled into a very complicated case by his groovy ex-lady.
Join Madison Film Forum contributors James Kreul and Jake Smith at the screening. With the Madfilm Meetups, the Madison Film Forum (madfilm.org) provides opportunities attend great films and meet people doing the same.
As promised, we will select more critically divisive films in 2015. Despite many year-end accolades INHERENT VICE currently maintains a 71% Tomatometer rating at Rotten Tomatoes. You can find a collection of reviews, positive, mixed, and negative, at our Flipboard Magazine:
Review highlights include:
“Inherent Vice, brilliantly scored by Jonny Greenwood, is an Anderson head trip, impure jazz with a reverb that can leave you dazed, confused and even annoyed. But at no time do you doubt that you are in the hands of a master.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“Mr. Anderson has condensed the book with surgical precision, ditching certain subplots, characters and locales while retaining the novel’s sociopolitical tug, barbed asides and chokingly funny details.” Manhola Dargis, New York Times
“The fact that perhaps 90 percent of the dialogue comes from Pynchon poses an authorship question that doesn’t exist with Anderson’s other movies. Still, the deftness with comedy and actors are at a level that few filmmakers working today could achieve.” Ben Kenigsberg, AV Club
“[P.T. Anderson] is a terrific stylist … and the scattershot pleasures he’s peddling in Inherent Vice may well satisfy those who like style more than substance, or maybe who like their style with substances.” Bob Mondello, NPR
“Inherent Vice is not only the first Pynchon movie; it could also, I suspect, turn out to be the last. Either way, it is the best and the most exasperating that we’ll ever have.” Anthony Lane, New Yorker