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The film premieres in October at the New York Film Festival, and
The Film Society at Lincoln Center (via
The Film Stage) got this image to run with an interview with NYFF Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones. Among other things, he talked about
Inherent Vice. Jones said “
Inherent Vice is also [an amazing cinematic ride] in a completely different way. It’s like being in a time machine, going back to the time of mutton chops and Neil Young.”
He went on to say,
"Wild movie. You know, it’s the first [Thomas] Pynchon film adaptation, and it really catches his tone. It really catches the antic nature of him: the crazy names of characters, the nutty behavior, and then also the emotional undertone. It has the flavor of Pynchon. It has this
Big Lebowski element to one side of it, but the emotional undertone, the desperation, the paranoia, and the yearning in the film… [Paul Thomas Anderson's] an absolutely amazing filmmaker and it’s incredible to see him responding to someone else’s creation and then building his own creation out of it. He sort of did that with
There Will Be Blood, but not really. It’s his own movie, inspired by the novel
Oil!
I was born in 1960, but I certainly remember 1971 very well and I gotta say, from the minute the movie started to the minute it ended, I was back—way back—to the point where I was thinking “Gee, my son was born in the ’90s.” So it’s a different kind of relationship that he would have. It’s an amazing piece of work, and at this point Joaquin Phoenix and Paul have something so rare between them as an actor and director, and Sam Waterston’s daughter, Katherine, is in it, and she’s riveting every minute she’s on screen. It’s quite a film."
After its NYFF fest premiere,
Inherent Vice is scheduled to hit US theaters starting on December 12, then goes wide on January 9, 2015.