With the release of Inherent Vice approaching, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is hitting the press circuit. He will be spending the next several months of his life talking about this movie ad nauseam, which is too bad. So, you better listen to what he to say now, before he gets bored with it. This particular interview comes from when the film premiered back at the beginning of October, the New York Film Festival, which you can listen to below.
I personally love long chats with filmmakers. The five-minute press junket thing is frankly useless, aside from the outlet getting the soundbites. A long conversation can have interesting ebbs and flows, tangents, and who knows what else. That is why when an interviewer or podcaster apologizes for a show being too long, I want to slap them and say, “No, the longer the show, the better.” This chat with PTA is an hour long. I would prefer three, but I will take the one. However, I will not be listening to it until after I see the movie. I do not know if they talk about spoiler stuff, but I do not want to take the chance.
I have managed to avoid any word about this movie, and I hope to keep it that way until I see it. The film is set for a limited release on December 12th and will expand further in January. By now, you know the Oscar contender film release drill. I cannot wait to see it.
You can listen to the interview below:
Inherent Vice is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel. When P.I. Doc Sportello’s ex-old lady shows up with a story about her current billionaire land developer boyfriend and a plot by his wife and her boyfriend to kidnap that billionaire and throw him in a looney bin… well, easy for her to say. It’s the tail end of the `60s, paranoia is running the day and Doc knows that “love” is one of those words going around, like “trip” or “groovy,” that’s way too overused-except this one usually leads to trouble. With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists… Part surf noir, part psychedelic romp-all Thomas Pynchon.
