PTA on Why He Made IV

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

On 09.01.2015 23:48, John Bailey wrote:

> PTA: "It's like Gravity's Rainbow—I've never got through it."
>
> Yikes. Perhaps he isn't our most qualified screen interpreter of
> Pynchon's writing.
>

That's what went through my mind, too, when I read this. More and more I 
get the impression that watching IV will be hard work and nothing I 
should be looking forward to ...

Commenting an article from the 'Guardian' (which Dave posted here a 
while ago), a reader, whose view on PTA's work before IV comes very 
close to mine, writes:

 > I loved Magnolia and Boogie Nights, and thought There Will Be Blood 
was incredibly powerful if unsatisfying. Punch Drunk Love I hated: 
Sandler is a totally unsympathetic human being and the story was trite. 
The Master had a great two acts, then hit its head against the same damn 
beat for the last 40 minutes, because it didn't know where to go. But 
nothing yet directed by Anderson was as pretentious and self-indulgent 
as Inherent Vice, which I actually found insulting in its smug 
self-admiration. So yes, I was one of those people who walked out in the 
first 15 minutes. It's a shame, because he's a true original, but this 
director is way too far up himself right now. <

Say it ain't so!


> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> "A phenomenally good interview. Bear with it. It's worth the full two
>> hours of your time."
>>
>> --George Toles
>>
>> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866014/
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>> http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/english_film_and_theatre/faculty/toles.html
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>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> http://www.vice.com/read/inherent-vice-was-the-thomas-pynchon-book-i-could-make-into-a-movie
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