There are many perks to living in Los Angeles. The most obvious is the weather, i.e. the lack of snow. A close second to the weather, though, is the cinema, and the things you get to experience here that you can almost nowhere else, like seeing One Battle After Another in VistaVision like I did on Friday night.

The Vista Theater in Los Angeles is one of just four theaters in the entire world that is projecting director Paul Thomas Anderson's new film in the VistaVision format. Thankfully, I live fairly close to the Vista, but honestly, even if I had not, I would have made a further trek to be in such rarefied theatrical air .

Those three-plus hours before, during, and after the film equate to easily one of the best cinematic experiences of my life, not far behind the raucous

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