Tagged Inherent Vice

Phantom Thread eludes being pinned down, with beguiling mastery. From the word go, you are never quite sure where it is heading, or exactly what sort of film you are watching, but – much like leading lady...

Given his propensity for writing films revolving around driven, charismatic, and dangerously self-regarding men, one might be forgiven for thinking Paul Thomas Anderson, all-round auteur and probably the...

It's here! The One Room With A View Top 20 films of 2015 has landed. It's been an extraordinary year of cinema, and this was one of the closest years we've seen in the vote. With positions constantly changing,...

First off: this is not a documentary about, or ode to, Jonny Greenwood – he’s barely in it. Instead, Anderson constructs a largely wordless impressionistic illustration through music, played live...

When writing his review of Brick for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers stated that the film’s director, Rian Johnson, ‘risked ridicule’ by setting his neo-noir in a high school. Arguably, the bigger risk was...

There is a moment in Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, Inherent Vice - a frenetic, dope-fuelled odyssey based upon Thomas Pynchon’s novel - in which Joaquin Phoenix’s drug-addled private eye Doc...

The '60s are dead, to begin with. Yet through all the stoner fog of PI Doc Sportello's (Phoenix) meandering investigations, the elegiac beauty of Pynchon's source novel is only occasionally glimpsed. Three...