Rare 70mm screenings of PT Anderson’s ‘Inherent Vice’ at Alamo Drafthouse

If you’ve got the capacity to show 70mm, flaunt it. That’s what the Alamo Drafthouse’s New Mission theater is doing to celebrate Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, “Phantom Thread.”

To whet your appetite, a week before “The Phantom Thread” opens in 70mm, the New Mission is screening Anderson’s last film, “Inherent Vice” (2014), twice in 70mm. Who can resist a 1970s neo-noir set in Los Angeles, based on a Thomas Pynchon novel and starring Joaquin Phoenix as a stoner P.I. and Josh Brolin as a hard-boiled cop?

For those who don’t know, 70mm has four times the filmic information of 35mm film, the standard for decades, creating gorgeous, pristine images that are far better than the current HD images.