US EditionOne Battle After Another: This Insane Movie About Leftwing Radicals and Rightwing Institutions Is a Powerful Exploration of US Today
Paul Thomas Anderson uses classical VistaVision format and tackles American culture with a broad cinematic scope, blending modern politics and old filmmaking styles.
- One Battle After Another is an action-comedy-thriller directed and written by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland.
- In the film, a revolutionary group called French 75 breaks into a detention center for immigrants on the US-Mexican border to free them.
- The movie features a white nationalist cult, the Christmas Adventurers, emphasizing ongoing issues of racial purity and societal conflict.
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Having Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro together in a film is a luxury, a divine rarity and a privilege that thousands will have to see One battle after another (One Battle After Another), a film loaded with action and comedy that premieres on September 25th. Written, directed and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, the film presents Bob (DiCaprio), a revolutionary come less who lives in a state of constant cannabic paranoia and w…
‘One Battle After Another’ in the film of the year
Legendary auteur Paul Thomas Anderson has made the film of the year with the incendiary, incisive and frequently quite funny “One Battle After Another,” which just happens to be a searing indictment of this particular moment in American history. Inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel “Vineland” (this is his second Pynchon adaptation, after 2014’s “Inherent Vice”), Anderson transplants the novel’s Reagan-era revolutionary story to present day, l…
Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn Star in Thrilling, Overly Sprawling ‘One Battle After Another’
Director Paul Thomas Anderson has crafted an exhilarating film, but he fails to meld the material, his sensibilities, and the demands of an action movie featuring major stars into a carefully crafted whole.
Paul Thomas Anderson stages the revolution as a kiffer comedy and eternal chase. His new film collides with the US presence just at the right moment.
One Battle After Another: this insane movie about leftwing radicals and rightwing institutions is a powerful exploration of US today
The recent death of Robert Redford was a reminder of just how much All the President’s Men unsettled old certainties about American democracy. An exposé of the Watergate scandal of 1972 (when members of the campaign to re-elect Richard Nixon were caught planting secret recording devices at the Democratic National Committee’s Watergate building), Alan J. Pakula’s film fed into an increasing sense that the institutions of American governance were …
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