- Katherine Waterston and Joaquin Phoenix star in Inherent Vice.
They said it couldn’t be done, but with Inherent Vice Paul Thomas Anderson has made a film adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel that actually feels like reading Pynchon. Not only that, but he’s pulled off what might be the Lawrence of Arabia of stoner comedies. Vice contains about as many weed jokes as two or three Cheech and Chong movies combined, and moreover, it puts them in the service of a densely realized history lesson. I dive into Anderson’s ambitious achievement in this week’s long review.
Lastly, tonight at 7 PM the Nightingale hosts the Chicago premiere of Vessel, a new experimental documentary about Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, a doctor who provides abortions at sea for women with no legal alternative.
