Underground filmmaker Laura Colella (Breakfast With Curtis) directed this dreamlike take on a Paul Thomas Anderson set.
Tag: Thomas Pynchon
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Pornography remains a major influence on Paul Thomas Anderson
Retired adult-film performer Michelle Sinclair plays a small (but crucial) role in Anderson’s Thomas Pynchon adaptation.
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The Lawrence of Arabia of stoner comedies—plus more new reviews and notable screenings
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago from 1/9-1/15/15
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Paul Thomas Anderson gives us a Pynchonian epic to get lost in
You don’t just watch Inherent Vice, you wander around it.
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Now playing: the low-budget doper reverie Breakfast With Curtis
Laura Colella’s distinctive “micro-indie” screens two more times this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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Hitting the books with writer-director Alex Ross Perry
An interview with the writer-director of the independent comedy The Color Wheel
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Another side of Fritz Lang: Western Union (1941)
Revisiting the great German director’s second American western
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12 O’Clock Track: Lotion, “Rock Chick”
Remember Lotion, Thomas Pynchon’s favorite band? Who shoulda, coulda made it, like their 90s contemporaries Archers of Loaf?
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Now online: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (part 1)
The first of a three-part series on Adam Curtis’s essay-film All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.
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Calling Motherfucking Bullmotherfucking Shit on “the Pynchonian Realm of Highbrow Slapstick,” Motherfuckers.
The Atlantic gets a little too fucking precious when it tries placing @MayorEmanuel in a broader literary context.
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Chicago Best Seller List for the week ending August 16
Hardcover Fiction 1. South of Broad by Pat Conroy2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett3. That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo4. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larrson5. Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Note: Russo is scheduled to discuss That Old Cape Magic as part of the Writers on the Record series on […]
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Diddy and Felix: Lectro Black
Over the weekend I tore through Thomas Pynchon’s new Inherent Vice, which is excellent and, like all good Pynchon books, frequently hilarious. Given its late-60s LA-hippie setting and Pynchon’s affection for rock music, it’s not surprising to encounter talk throughout about acts like the Trashmen, Thunderclap Newman, and Wild Man Fischer. Less expected—and thus more […]
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Chicago Best Seller List for the week ending August 9
Hardcover Fiction 1. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett3. That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo4. Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon5. The Amateurs by Marcus Sakey [Note: Russo is scheduled to discuss That Old Cape Magic as part of the Writers on the Record series on Wednesday, […]
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Lotion Makes a Little Pynchon Go a Long Way
So way back in the olden days of 1996 a New York band called Lotion, who had one good song whose title I can’t remember, put out a record called Nobody’s Cool with liner notes by Thomas Pynchon—which was a pretty big deal, given that Pynchon, one of the best novelists of the past century, […]
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In defense of spoilers
Complaints about spoilers in movies and novels are a worrisome phenomenon.