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Locked Between Professional and Personal: On “The End of the Tour”
Early reports on James Ponsoldt’s sensitive, earnest The End Of The Tour tended to describe the film as something of a David Foster Wallace biopic--a notion abhorrent in literary circles that still hold up Wallace as an untouchable, multifaceted genius. Those ...
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Two Writers Get Into A Car. Ouch.
David Foster Wallace is the epitome of the Writer's Writer. His labyrinthine prose and slang-laced erudition appeal to the myriad would-be scribes struggling to find meaning in their debt-inducing liberal arts educations that never really pay off—the "obscenel...
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The 20 Best Scenes of 2013
Last year wasn't just a strong year of film; it was also a year of such an eclectic variety of good films of all sorts. While there wasn't a whole lot to chew on in the mainstream American film landscape, the independent and foreign scenes were thriving with g...
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‘The Spectacular Now’: A Charming, Tender, and Deeply Resonant Coming-of-Age Tale
This review has been republished from our coverage of LAFF.
It's becoming more and more apparent that coming-of-age films have been reaching something of a renaissance period lately, with each consecutive year offering up at least one genuinely great entry...
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