One of my favorite Oscar nominations this year was Mark Bridges getting the call for his work on Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice." I only wish David Crank and Amy Wells could have joined him because the design of this film was out of sight (to say nothing of Robert Elswit's lush lensing). Still, it's sort of serendipitous that it's Bridges and Anderson (in the adapted screenplay category) representing the film, as like Elswit, their collaboration goes all the way back to the beginning, but unlike Elswit (who won the Oscar for "There Will Be Blood"), Bridges had yet to be recognized for a PTA movie. I talked to Bridges, who did get his own trip to Oscar's stage for "The Artist" a few years ago, about that and a whole lot more earlier this week. The research and engineering that went into bringing these costumes — and, by proxy,...
- 1/22/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
During the splashy premiere last month at the New York Film Festival for "Inherent Vice," director Paul Thomas Anderson discussed in detail many of the influences on his upcoming Thomas Pynchon adaptation. One film that didn't get mentioned was the 1967 cult documentary "Mondo Hollywood," but at AFI Fest, which kicks off today, the filmmaker will talk about the movie in detail with the man who made it happen. Organizers at AFI have announced that Anderson will join director Robert Carl Cohen for a screening and conversation about "Mondo Hollywood" this weekend. Cited in the announcement of the event as an influence on "Inherent Vice," the oddball 1967 movie documents the weirder, counterculture side of Los Angeles, profiling a range of personalities from skydivers to artists to fashion designers and more. It also chronicles the social and political climate of the time, while famous faces like Jayne Mansfield, Frank Zappa, Sonny and Cher,...
- 11/6/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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