FREE DAVID FOSTER WALLCE: THE LAST INTERVIEW PDF David Foster Wallace | 124 pages | 18 Dec 2012 | Melville House Publishing | 9781612192062 | English | Brooklyn, United States Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - Wikipedia As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have six David Foster Wallce: The Last Interview to get you David Foster Wallce: The Last Interview for those pivotal years of your life Get some streaming picks. Title: The End of the Tour The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest. The publisher's marketing efforts meant the book was everywhere, but the man himself—shy, full of self-doubt, not wanting to be trapped into any literary poseur moments and seeing them as inevitable—was difficult to read. This movie uses a tyro journalist's eye to probe Wallace during an intense five days of interviewing toward the end of the Infinite Jest book tour. As a tryout writer for Rolling Stone, reporter David Lipsky had begged for the assignment to write a profile of Wallace, which ultimately the magazine never published. The plot of the movie is minimal; instead, it's a deep exploration of character. It may just be two guys talking, but I found it tectonic. Lipsky is a novelist himself, with a so-so book to his credit. Wallace has reached the heights, and what would it take for Lipsky to scramble up there too? Jealousy and admiration are at war within him and, confronted David Foster Wallce: The Last Interview Wallace's occasional oddness, one manifestation of which is the attempt to be Super-Regular Guy—owning dogs, David Foster Wallce: The Last Interview junk food, obsessively watching television—he isn't sure what to feel. You see it on his face. Is Lipsky friend or foe? He's not above snooping around Wallace's house or chatting up his friends to nail his story. Lipsky rightly makes Wallace nervous, the tape recorder makes him nervous; he amuses, he evades, he delivers a punch of a line, he feints. When the going gets too rough, Lipsky falls back on saying, "You agreed to the interview," and Wallace climbs back in the saddle, as if David Foster Wallce: The Last Interview to himself, just finish this awful ride, then back to the peace and solitude necessary actually to write. In the meantime, he is, as A. Scott said in his New York Times review, "playing the role of a writer in someone else's fantasy. You can't help but interpret every statement of Wallace's through that lens. The depression is clear. He's been treated for it and for alcoholism, from which he seems to have recovered. The two Davids walk on the snow-covered farm fields of Wallace's Illinois home and talk about how beautiful it is, but it David Foster Wallce: The Last Interview bleak, and even in as jam-packed an environment as the Mall of America Wallace's conversation focuses on the emptiness at the heart of life. Yet his gentle humor infuses almost every exchange, and Lipsky can be wickedly funny too. Wallace can't help but feel great ambivalence toward Lipsky; he recognizes Lipsky's envy and his hero-worship, and both are troubling. He felt a truth inside himself, but he finds it almost impossible to capture and isn't sure he has, saying, "The more people think you're really great, the bigger your fear of being a fraud is. Looking for something to watch? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. 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Edit Cast Credited cast: Jason Segel David Foster Wallace Joan Cusack Patty Anna Chlumsky Sarah Jesse Eisenberg David Lipsky Ron Livingston David Lipsky's Editor Mamie Gummer Julie Mickey Sumner Betsy Becky Ann Baker Bookstore Manager Stephanie Cotton Airline Ticket Agent Jennifer Jelsema Student 3 Chelsea Anne Lawrence Edit Storyline The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest. Taglines: Imagine the greatest conversation you've ever had. Edit Did You Know? Trivia During the movie, several characters are seen reading Primary Colors, the mids political satire novel that was widely thought to be a thinly veiled roman a clef portrayal of the Clintons. Goofs In one scene, the Davids are seen in a 7-Eleven convenience store. The movie takes place inbut the products shown all have more modern packaging. For example, Heinz ketchup is shown in its "upside-down" squeeze bottle, which was not introduced until Quotes David Lipsky : He wants more than he has. I want precisely what he already has. Crazy Credits Halfway through the closing credits, there David Foster Wallce: The Last Interview an extra scene told from the perspective of David Foster Wallace as Lipsky goes to the bathroom to wash out the chewing tobacco. It shows what Wallace did while he was in the bathroom: he speaks privately into the tape recorder. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Edit Details Official Sites: Official site. Country: USA. Language: English. Runtime: min. Sound Mix: Dolby Digital. Color: Color. Edit page. October Streaming Picks. Back to School Picks. Clear your history. David Foster Wallace. David Lipsky. Getting to Know David Foster Wallace - Rolling Stone He was six-feet-two, and on a good day he weighed pounds. He wore granny glasses with a head scarf, points knotted at the back, a look that was both pirate-like and house-wife-ish. He always wore his hair long. He had dark eyes, soft voice, caveman chin, a lovely, peak-lipped mouth that was his best feature. David Foster Wallace worked surprising turns on nearly everything: novels, journalism, vacation. His life was an information hunt, collecting hows and whys. My job is to make David Foster Wallce: The Last Interview sense of it. Instead of being a relief from what it feels like to live. His life was a map that ends at the wrong destination. He was like a comet flying by at ground level. He was clinically depressed for decades, information he limited to family and his closest friends. After he died on September 12th, readers crowded the Web with tributes to his generosity, his intelligence. It was only when you knew him better that David Foster Wallce: The Last Interview had a true appreciation of what a heroic struggle it was for him not merely to get along in the world, but to produce wonderful David Foster Wallce: The Last Interview. David grew up in Champaign, Illinois. His father, Jim, taught philosophy at the University of Illinois. His mother, Sally, taught English at a local community college. It was an academic household — poised, David Foster Wallce: The Last Interview — language games in the car, the rooms tidy, the bookcase the hero. So the family developed a sort of interoffice conflict mail. One per week. David could memorize whole shows of dialogue and predict, like a kind of plot weatherman, when the story was going to turn, where characters would end up. No one saw or treated him as a genius, but at age 14, when he asked what his father did, Jim sat David down and walked him through a Socratic dialogue. I played citywide football. And I was really good. Then I got to junior high, and there were two guys in the city who were better quarterbacks than me. That was a huge disappointment. He offered two explanations to his parents: They expected him to practice every day, and the coaches did too much cursing. He had also picked up a racket. For five years, I was seriously gonna be a pro tennis player. I know that sounds arrogant. By the time he was 14, he felt he could have made nationals. But just at the point it became important to me, I began to choke. The more scared you get, the worse you play. He would voice surprising requests, like wanting to paint his bedroom black. He was constantly angry at his sister. When he was 16, he refused to go to her birthday party. The depression seemed to take the form of an evil spirit that just haunted David. David Foster Wallce: The Last Interview wall of his bedroom was lined with cork, for magazine photos of tennis stars. David graduated high school with perfect grades. Whatever his personal hurricane was, it had scattered trees and moved on. He decided to go to Amherst, which is where his father had gone, too. His parents told him he would enjoy the Berkshire autumn. Instead, he missed home — the farms and flat horizons, roads stretching contentedly nowhere. Wallace had lugged his David Foster Wallce: The Last Interview into Amherst the fall of — Reagan coming in, the Seventies capsized, preppies everywhere.