Film Discussion Lunch: "One Battle After Another" (NO SCREENING)

Since the 1990s Paul Thomas Andserson has shown to be a superb filmmaker with a particular focus on the breakage of idealized values across this country's history, from "Boogie Nights" through "The Master" through "Inherent Vice". It's also true of his latest film, "One Battle After Another" (like "Vice", also based on a Thomas Pynchon novel) about a burnout former revolutionary who has to reckon with his past when his daughter goes missing. But that's just the foundation of PTA breaking through in new filmmaking dimensions, from kinetic car chases to extended comic sequences to unusual cultural clashes to several new visual and audio cinematic touches.

There's a lot to take in with this movie, and it's a lot of movie period (running at 2 hours 50 minutes), so we'll have things a little different by having you view the movie at your own convenience beforehand (it's playing throughout the city, including a 70mm presentation at Music Box and IMAX at the Roosevelt and City North theaters) and dropping by the Pizzeria Aroma on 5350 North Broadway to talk amount the many remarkable cinematic, performance, cultural, and thematic aspects of the movie!