sunday, august 27, 9 pm: inherent vice

[pirate cinema berlin]

It's impossible to turn a Pynchon novel into a Hollywood movie. That's a rule, 
and to this day, Inherent Vice remains the only, lucky exception. It doesn't 
try too hard to be a singular film -- it takes place in the same cinematic 
universe as The Big Sleep, Zabriskie Point, The Long Goodbye, Chinatown or The 
Big Lebowski -- but it doesn't try too hard to follow Hollywood tradition 
either. It's set in the long, dark comedown from the Summer of Love, Los 
Angeles in 1970, a world illuminated by a warm but fading afterglow of sex and 
revolution, a constellation of characters driven by rebellion, fear, paranoia, 
criminal ambition and short bursts of melancholy, a storyline punctured by 
strange little loops and occasional flashbacks. The result is a downtempo swirl 
of a detective film, a sad, mostly subtle, then at times hilariously unsubtle 
comedy, and probably the only truly great stoner noir in the history of cinema.

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                                                                          sunday
                                                                       august 27
                                                                            9 pm

                                                                   inherent vice
                                                            paul thomas anderson
                                                                   2014, 148 min

                                                            pirate cinema berlin
                                                                u kottbusser tor
                                                           e-mail for directions

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