‘Inherent Vice’ takes a hazy trip back to 1970 counterculture LA
By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) – “Inherent Vice,” director Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel that debuted at the New York Film Festival on Saturday is a hazy, drug-fueled trip back to 1970 Los Angeles with its hippies, hustlers and a persistent sleuth. The film, the first big screen version of a Pynchon novel, is the Centerpiece selection at the 17-day fest that runs through Oct. 12. When the novel, set at the end of the free-loving 60s after the Charles Manson murders, was published in 2009 it was described as “part-noir, part-psychedelic romp. …
