No spoiler here: In the very first scene of The End of the Tour, set in 2008, writer David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) receives a phone call, informing him that, “according to an unconfirmed report, David Wallace is dead.” I’m ashamed to reveal that the suicide of David Foster Wallace meant nothing to me at the time, if I even knew who he was. Even at the time of this writing, … [Read more...]
The View From Home 19: New releases on DVD
Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss (Criterion) Release date: Jan. 18 Standard list price: $21.99 each In all the documentaries and video interviews made about the work of the great director Samuel Fuller, the movie referenced more than any other is not even made by Fuller. It’s a scene from Pierrot le fou, Jean-Luc Godard’s manic farrago from 1965. Fuller, in at the time in … [Read more...]
ArtsPaper Interview: Alexander Platt, conductor
The Boca Raton Symphonia is, along with the Master Chorale of South Florida and the Delray String Quartet, one of the few area cultural institutions to have emerged and thrived from the demise of the Florida Philharmonic in May 2003. Since October 2007, the Boca Symphonia has been led by Alexander Platt, 43, a New York-born musician now resident in Chicago who, in the … [Read more...]