One Battle After Another
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Film Discussion and 'Recall This Book' podcast recording.When their evil nemesis resurfaces after sixteen years, a band of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own.
Join us for a special, opening-weekend screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s big-budget, shrouded-in-mystery, action-adventure-indie-dystopian-satire One Battle After Another, based largely, or loosely, on Thomas Pynchon’s love-it-or-hate-it 1990 novel Vineland, followed by a free-form, focused, off-the-cuff, expertly improvised (recorded) conversation and Q&A about the film, Pynchon, Paul Thomas Anderson, Reaganism, radicalism, postmodernism, rebellion, ninjas, narcs, American cinema, American apocrypha, Rushdie v.
Kermode, and the People’s Republic of Rock and Roll, among other tropics of concern.
This conversation will be moderated by John Plotz, co-host of the popular Recall This Book podcast, distributed by New Books Network, and will kindly feature appearances by Peter Coviello and Ethan Warren.
Recall This Book is a free-ranging, warm but involved and sometimes spicy discussion of books from the past that cast a sideways light on today’s world.
PETER COVIELLO is the author of six books, including Make Yourselves Gods, a finalist for the 2020 John Whitmer Historical Association Best Book Prize; Long Players, a memoir selected as one of ARTFORUM’s Best Books of 2018; and Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things, chosen by The Millions, the Lambda Literary Review, and the Chicago Tribune as a notable book from 2023.
He writes as well for venues such as N+1, the Boston Review, Public Books, Frieze, and The Believer, and his book about Thomas Pynchon, Vineland Reread, was listed among the New York Times’s “New and Noteworthy” titles for January of 2021.
He taught for many years at Bowdoin College and since 2014 has been at University of Illinois Chicago, where he is Professor and Head of English.
ETHAN WARREN is the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, published in 2023 by Columbia University Press.
He is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and editor-in-chief of the online journal of arts and culture Broad Sound, with bylines at Bright Wall/Dark Room, LitHub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.
His next book for Columbia University Press will be titled When I Paint My Masterpiece: The Cinematic Dylan.
He lives in Norwell with his wife and children.
JOHN PLOTZ is Mandel Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University and editor of the B-Sides feature in Public Books, as well as B-Side Books, published by Columbia University Press.
He co-hosts two podcasts: Novel Dialogue and Recall This Book, and oversees the annual Brandeis Novel Symposium.
His books include Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea, The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics, Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move, and Semi-Detached: Aesthetic Experience from Dickens to Keaton, and he is among the co-founders of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative.
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$21
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www.westnewtoncinema.com/movie/one-battle-after-another-film-premiere-and-recall
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1296 Washington Street, Newton, MA, 02465 map
Phone: (617) 964-8074
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