PTA on Why He Made IV

[jochen stremmel]

My take exactly.

2015-01-10 16:27 GMT+01:00 Mark Wright <washoepete at gmail.com>:

> All'y'all hating on Punch Drunk Love are just *wrong.* Try it again.
> Sandler justifies/redeems his whole wretched witless career with this
> performance.
>
>
> On Saturday, January 10, 2015, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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/
>>>>
>>>> http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/english_film_
>>>> and_theatre/faculty/toles.html
>>>>
>>>> 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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