One Battle After Another @IFI, 8pm - "Late Late" Breakfast - Friday Night Movie

Hi everyone,
With postponing this month’s Meetup by a week, this Friday is falling on the opening weekend of the next 70mm showing at the IFI Cinema 1.

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER @8pm Cinema 1 (168 mins)
I am seated in seat K-10, but feel free to sit where you wish.

One Battle After Another - Official Trailer - Warner Bros. UK & Ireland
“After his freewheeling, shaggy dog adaptation of Inherent Vice (2014), Paul Thomas Anderson, one of contemporary American cinema’s leading directors (Boogie Nights (1997); The Master (2012); There Will Be Blood (2007) and Phantom Thread (2017), both starring Daniel Day-Lewis) once again finds inspiration in the work of author Thomas Pynchon, loosely updating the themes and characters of novel Vineland (1990) to a contemporary setting. Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and partner Perfidia (Teyana Taylor) are members of revolutionary group the French 75. Life is complicated by the arrival of daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti), and their constant pursuit by Steven Lockjaw (Sean Penn), Perfidia’s former partner. Lockjaw’s eventual, inevitable resurfacing forces Bob to contact members of the disbanded group to help protect his daughter. There are some surprising new additions to Anderson’s palette in his latest star-studded, action-packed, darkly comic epic.”

Dining: I’ll book a table for dinner at 6:15pm at the IFI Café Bar. If you wish to join us for dinner, please post a Comment to be included in the numbers.

Note that they do not split bills there so it’s CASH ONLY again for this one, and there’s a 10% service charge on large table bookings. Please bring smaller notes and change for ease of payment.