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 2: New releases on DVD
Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service (Disney’s Studio Ghibli) Release date: March 2 Standard list price: $19.99 each Girls always rule in the films of Hayao Miyazaki, Japan’s top animator and one of international cinema’s most empowering feminist voices. In his four most prominent Western exports – Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s … [Read more...]