Oscar Predictions for 2015

[Monte Davis]

Seems about right.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> WHO SHOULDN'T BE HERE: Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice
>
> One of the few award nominations for Inherent Vice seems to be a
> consolation for Anderson bringing a Thomas Pynchon novel to the
> screen. Sure, an author can write a dense piece of work that is hard
> to make into a movie, whether it's Pynchon, James Joyce. Margaret
> Atwood or David Foster Wallace, but just because a filmmaker comes
> along to adapt it doesn't mean its necessarily one of the best.
> Confession time, I saw Inherent Vice a month ago, I just can't bring
> myself to review it until I see it again because what I saw was a
> sometimes funny, sometimes incoherent mess that lasted maybe 45
> minutes loner than it should have. This book came out in 2009, and is
> basically Pynchon's version of The Big Lebowski, which became
> Anderson's version of that film. It's puzzling that it's here.
>
> http://www.examiner.com/article/oscar-predictions-for-2015
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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