Film Club at Auditory: Screening and Discussion of “Battle After Battle” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)

Film Club at Auditory: Screening and Discussion of
“Battle After Battle” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)

This Saturday, we will watch and discuss a film based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, highly praised by critics.

In the 2000s, Pat Calhoun and his girlfriend were part of a left-wing extremist group. When a murder occurred during one of their raids, the group members were forced to flee separately.
Sixteen years later, the man lives in Southern California under the name Bob Ferguson, raising his teenage daughter. Due to his constant paranoia, he even forbids her from having a mobile phone. Bob’s fears prove justified when an old enemy, Colonel Lockjaw, begins hunting him and his daughter…