Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, “Licorice Pizza,” is a partly autobiographical, pugnaciously romantic coming-of-age story, tnyfrontrow writes.
”—comes off as a sort of defiance, of resistance to current modes of easy and consumable viewing. It is also a form of access to the past. The movie hurtles and lurches ahead, as if escaping its own present tense and leaving nothing but memories, ones without nostalgia, because they are filled with the era’s cruelty and indifference, but clear-eyed about the chances for experience that the time and place presented nonetheless.
Yet amid the two friends’ inspired schemes, the biggest prize remains the one that lies tantalizingly at hand: the movie business. “Being the Ricardos” isn’t the only movie of the year in which Lucille Ball figures; here, she’s portrayed under the pseudonym of Lucy Doolittle, the star of a movie in which Gary appears .
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