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It's impossible to turn a Pynchon novel into a Hollywood movie. That's a rule,  
and to this day, Inherent Vice remains the only, lucky exception. It doesn't    
try too hard to be a singular film -- it takes place in the same cinematic      
universe as The Big Sleep, Zabriskie Point, The Long Goodbye, Chinatown or The  
Big Lebowski -- but it doesn't try too hard to follow Hollywood tradition       
either. It's set in the long, dark comedown from the Summer of Love, Los        
Angeles in 1970, a world illuminated by a warm but fading afterglow of sex and  
revolution, a constellation of characters driven by rebellion, fear, paranoia,  
criminal ambition and short bursts of melancholy, a storyline punctured by      
strange little loops and occasional flashbacks. The result is a downtempo swirl 
of a detective film, a sad, mostly subtle, then at times hilariously unsubtle   
comedy, and probably the only truly great stoner noir in the history of cinema. 
                                                                                
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                                                                          sunday
                                                                       august 27
                                                                            9 pm
                                                                                
                                                                   inherent vice
                                                            paul thomas anderson
                                                                   2014, 148 min
                                                                                
                                                            pirate cinema berlin
                                                                u kottbusser tor
                                                           e-mail for directions
                                                                                
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