#contemporary-cinema

#contemporary-cinema

Until his monumental new film, Paul Thomas Anderson had only made a single narrative feature set in the 21st century, and that movie - a love story about a plunger salesman who hoards pudding cups, gets extorted by the owner of a phone sex line, and shares an iconic kiss to the sound of a Shelley Duvall song from 1980 - was less of its time than out of it.

Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest is an indulgent adaptation that takes the basic premise of Kurosawa's High and Low but transforms it into a distinctly Spike Lee movie.