Yet it’s also delicately and subtly infused with dream-like atmosphere found in Punch-Drunk Love. Just like There Will Be Blood and The Master. The film is set in the 1970s and follows the story of Los Angeles detective Larry ÒDocÓ Sportello (Phoenix) as he reconnects with a former girlfriend and becomes entangled in her various kidnapping schemes.Paul Thomas Anderson gleefully enigmatic 2014 adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Inherent Vice chronicles the corrosive underbelly of American culture. Joaquin Phoenix was nominated for a Golden Globe, Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical. The film received two Oscar nominations Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay and Best Achievement in Costume Design. Very good slightly handled copy in printed wrappers. A perfectbound book looking like a trade paperback. The film was written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon, and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Eric Roberts, Benicio Del Toro, Jena Malone, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoon, Maya Rudolph, and Martin Short. This is first appearance in book form of this screenplay specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Adapted Screenplay for Inherent Vice based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon. A review by academic Louis Menand in The New Yorker declared the novel "a generally lighthearted affair", while adding that there were still "a few familiar apocalyptic touches, and a suggestion that countercultural California is a lost continent of freedom and play, swallowed up by the faceless forces of co-optation and repression." In 2014, the novel was adapted into an American period neo-noir mystery comedy film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Eric Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio del Toro, Jena Malone, Hong Chau, Joanna Newsom, Jeannie Berlin, Maya Rudolph, Michael K. A postmodern novel that warps the stylistic conventions of detective fiction, Pynchon's Inherent Vice follows sleuth Larry "Doc" Sportello who suddenly becomes involved in a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom is ex girlfriend just happens to be in love with. Jacket design by Tal Goretsky and Darren Haggar. First edition of Pynchon's darkly comic detective novel set in 1970s California.
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