California Dreaming: P.T. Anderson’s Take on Pynchon’s Inherent Vice Rolando Caputo March 2015 Feature Articles “We are interested in the plot of a play or film because it stages a problem whose solution we expect: we are expecting the plot to be resolved. So long as it is not (and in principle it is not resolved until t...
Los Angeles Plays Itself: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice Tim O’Farrell March 2015 Feature Articles With Paul Thomas Anderson’s auteur standing complementing Thomas Pynchon’s literary eminence and pop culture savvy, Inherent Vice (2014) promises to be a cinephile’s dream. Set against the backdrop of the Nixon...