Inherent Vice. 2014. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

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Inherent Vice. 2014. USA. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Courtesy of Warner Bros

Inherent Vice. 2014. USA. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. 148 min.

No one has ever accused Paul Thomas Anderson of being a coward (at least as a director), so who better to take on the first-ever film adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel? As close as one could get to entering a time machine and reemerging in the pot-filled haze of early-1970's LA, Inherent Vice slithers and seduces in a frame that can barely contain it. The astonishing performances (channelings, really) by Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Martin Short, Katherine Waterson, and a coterie of cohorts will take you on a trip to a place between the known and unknowable. To be experienced sober at you own risk! Courtesy of Warner Bros.

This film accompanies The Contenders 2014.

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