ORWAV Essays: Paul Thomas Anderson – Master of Madness Eddie Falvey February 5, 2015 Analysis, Close-Up, Features 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...
Inherent Vice – Review Calum Baker February 5, 2015 Reviews 1 Comment 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...
ORWAV’s Top 20 of 2014: 9. Her Cameron Ward December 21, 2014 Analysis, Features, Top 10 7 Comments “Dear Catherine, I've been sitting here thinking about all the things I wanted to apologise to you for." Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix)'s closing missive is a love letter to lives once lived, the final...
Maybeland: Her Madeline Joint June 29, 2014 Features, Independent, Maybeland 3 Comments Maybeland is a new feature exploring all the Brave New Worlds of cinema, a look at the various visions of the future – utopic, dystopic and in-between – that all have their own style, predictions and ideas...
A Beginner’s Guide to…Paul Thomas Anderson Patrick Taylor February 16, 2014 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features 1 Comment When it comes to directors in Western cinema over the last twenty years, Paul Thomas Anderson is without equal. Coming from a long line of American filmmakers who burst suddenly onto the scene and went from...
Her – Review Tom Bond February 14, 2014 Reviews 3 Comments Whether you view Her as a vision of dystopia or utopia rather depends on your relationship with technology. To Theodore (Phoenix) it is at once the reason and remedy for his loneliness. He is struggling to...
