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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 1996 publication of Wallace's gr... Read all 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 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.' 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 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'

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Trivia The song heard on the soundtrack when the film ends is "The Big Ship" by Brian Eno , one of David Foster Wallace 's favorite songs. It was also used for the climax of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) , another film that premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Goofs In regards to the scene where Mrs. Gunderson gives Mr. Wallace and Mr. Lipsky a car tour of Minneapolis sites: The Mary Tyler Moore statue on Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis, was not given to the City by TV Land until 2002. Also, it is not legal for cars to drive down Nicollet Mall.

David Foster Wallace : It may be in the old days what was known as a spiritual crisis: feeling as though every axiom in your life turned out to be false... and there was actually nothing. And that you were nothing. And that it's all a delusion and you're so much better than everybody 'cause you can see how this is just a delusion, and you're so much worse because you can't fucking function.

Crazy credits Halfway through the closing credits, there is 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.
Connections Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Jason Segel/Amy Sedaris/Alessia Cara (2015)
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The End of the Tour

2015, Drama, 1h 46m

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Writer and journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) interviews author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) for Rolling Stone magazine.

Rating: R (Some Sexual References|Language)

Genre: Drama

Original Language: English

Director: James Ponsoldt

Producer: David Kanter , Matt DeRoss , James Dahl , Mark C. Manuel , Ted O'Neal

Writer: Donald Margulies

Release Date (Theaters): Jul 31, 2015 limited

Release Date (Streaming): Aug 15, 2016

Box Office (Gross USA): $3.0M

Runtime: 1h 46m

Distributor: A24

Production Co: Anonymous Content

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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Jesse Eisenberg

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Joan Cusack

Mamie Gummer

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James Ponsoldt

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Jason Segel shines brightly in the, pleasantly surprising, breakthrough dramatic performance of the year.

Experimenting with one-sentence reviews, and but also plus in the style of this film's subject, the inimitable David Foster Wallace, allows me to say that The End of the Tour is good in like the way that makes high-brow intellectuals, complete with black turtlenecks, white-framed-liberal-free-trade glasses, and Match.com profiles that reference Wittengensteinian praxis and well-researched Proust quotes, think they're sideline-spectators with the howling fantods at genetically superiors' like most significant life-event, but yet also the film fails to achieve full high-ejection, supra-orbitular virtuosity because while we get to know DFW's AM/PM TV-obsessed, like almost stereotypically basically totally-American self-perception, his fame, the thing that keeps him in a state of intra- and interpersonal solipsism and the thing that he's, during the whole Entertainment, like a orange-flashlighted construction worker screaming, howling, imprecating, "No, no, Lipsky, this way is only a carrot, not the brightly-lit Show you think you know!" and the thing that ultimately probably caused him to extinguish his map, is like totally unexplored because, aside from the sycophantic organizers, the people who burden DFW are largely absent and told but yet not shown.

Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg star in the powerful character drama The End of the Tour. Based on a novel by Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky, the film follows a five-day interview that Lipsky had with acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace during Wallace's publicity tour for his novel Infinite Jest. Segel and Eisenberg give incredibly good performances and have great chemistry together. And, the discussions that the two have are fascinating; covering a variety of deep issues that are quite thought-provoking. However, the gritty film style can sometimes be distracting (though the rawness does add a certain reality to the scenes). The End of the Tour is an extraordinarily compelling film, and succeeds largely due to its sharp, witty dialog and the earnestness of the performances.

If I hadn't read the book, and if I hadn't found it among a lacklustre movie selection on a transatlantic flight, I'm not sure I'd have watched the movie. Well cast, and well-written, but it's not so well-suited to the screen... And if I, the target audience, didn't really go for it, I'm not sure what the general audience will make of it; that's not to say that every movie has to please everyone, but suffice to say that this one's not for everyone.

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Directed by James Ponsoldt (" The Spectacular Now "), "The End of the Tour" might fit well on a double bill with " Amadeus ," another film about a genius and a lesser artist who basks in his aura. Of course, the setting is very different, and the stakes are much lower—"Tour" is a fictionalized account of the week-and-a-half that Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky spent following the late David Foster Wallace as he toured to promote his doorstop-sized masterpiece "Infinite Jest"—but it's still the story of a competent but unremarkable creative person observing brilliance up close, feeding on it, reveling in it and resenting it.

It is also certainly one of cinema's finest explorations of an incredibly specific dynamic—that of the cultural giant and the reporter who fantasizes about one day being as great as his subject, and in the same field. What it definitely isn't is a biography of David Foster Wallace, much less a celebration of his work and worldview. Whether that proves a deal breaker, a bonus, or a non-factor for viewers will depend on what they want out of this movie.

"The End of the Tour" is not really about Wallace ( Jason Segel ), although he's the other major character. It starts with Lipsky ( Jesse Eisenberg ) expressing amazement (but really jealousy) over a rave review of "Infinite Jest" in New York magazine, a moment that sparks his obsession with Wallace. It ultimately leaves us thinking about Lipsky's feelings and career trajectory, and whether he feels any guilt about using his brief association with Wallace to further his own career as a writer of books. At this point in his life, Lipsky has had just one volume published, a novel that few people bought and fewer read; after some hesitation, he foists it on Wallace while visiting him at the University of Illinois during a punishingly icy winter.

The screenplay by Donald Margulies spends most of its time and energy observing a dance. One dancer is Lipsky. He only got Rolling Stone to pay for his rock-star style profile of a novelist by agreeing to ask Wallace about the rumors that he uses heroin, and his motivations for doing the story are, to put it mildly, less than noble. The other dancer is Wallace. His fiction and nonfiction were partly concerned with the meaning of the word "authenticity," and how the social rituals and technology and economic structure of modern life created false intimacies that Wallace was determined to reject.

Theirs is a complex relationship, brief as it is. The most fascinating thing about it is how each side of it seems to be happening in a different storytelling genre.

Wallace's side of the story is something along the lines of a light drama, perhaps even a romance, about somebody who's been burned over and over and has withdrawn from nearly all relationships save for a handful that he feels he can trust and believe in. Although the small part of the world that cares about writers' private lives thinks of Wallace as a bit of a recluse and perhaps a bit mysterious, it's immediately clear that he's just selective and self-protecting. It's the story of a man learning to trust again (in a love story, it would be "to love again") while worrying that he's going to get burned one more time. Lipsky isn't a Wallace-level intellect, he is very smart, and a good listener, and excellent at getting subjects to open up, even though his demeanor is presumptuous. He doesn't approach Wallace with the appropriate humility. He instead comes at him from the point-of-view of a writer who believes that he is Wallace's potential equal—somebody as profound as Wallace but not as accomplished or famous, for now. Wallace seems to buy this. Why? Maybe because he's a teacher, and at least a few of his students have real talent, and he doesn't want his ego or insecurity to rule out the possibility that he might cross paths with an artist. Or maybe he's just a decent, optimistic guy.

Lipsky's side of the story often feels like the story of of a con man, or a regular person who uses other people without realizing that's what he's doing. If this were a romantic drama, Lipsky might be a drug user who swears he's gotten clean, or a recovering alcoholic who's not as far along in the process as he claims to be, or a serial cheater who wants everyone to think he's reformed and can be monogamous even though he's constitutionally incapable of that. We keep waiting for the other shoe to drop—for Wallace, who genuinely likes Lipsky even though he's observant enough to spot all the warning signs immediately, to realize that Lipsky cannot have a real friendship with him, and that in general it is a bad idea for a subject to think that he can have that kind of relationship with a reporter.

Any journalist who's been profiling famous people for any length of time will recognize the dynamic depicted here by Ponsoldt, Eisenberg and Jason Segel, and the honest ones will be made uncomfortable by it. There is something vampiric about features like the one that Lipsky has been assigned to write. There are also elements of theatricality. As Wallace observes early on, the subject is expected to give a performance of sorts, imitating the person he'd like to be perceived as being. The reporter in turn playacts casual curiosity, and tries to push past the facade and find something real, maybe uncomfortable, best of all revelatory.

Segel and Eisenberg, who as movie stars have been in Wallace's position many times, have an intuitive understanding of how this relationship works, and they illuminate it in the moment, with specificity and clarity. Segel doesn't really look or sound like Wallace (not that that matters; Anthony Hopkins didn't look or sound like Nixon in " Nixon " but was extraordinary) and I didn't necessarily buy him as somebody who could write like Wallace, but he's so smart and genuine and peculiar that we believe he is capable of Wallace's extreme sensitivity and delicate observations—a major accomplishment. Eisenberg is the true star of the movie—an actor of extraordinary originality and also bravery, insofar as he never seems to trouble himself with whether people will hate his characters. He's a great listener but also a rather scary one. His characters often seem to be scrutinizing other characters the way a snake might scrutinize a field mouse. There are many moments in "The End of the Tour" when we dislike Lipsky. There are a few moments where we might find him sickening.

Is this a story that will fascinate an audience beyond editors, critics, reporters, novelists, and people who care about the problems of such people? I have no idea, though it seems unlikely; the film's incredible specificity would seem to mitigate against being discovered and championed by a wide audience, despite Segel and Eisenberg's presence in the cast. Did the film necessarily need to have David Foster Wallace as one of its two main characters? That's a thornier question. We rarely hear any of his prose read aloud (Lipsky reads a passage of "Jest" to his girlfriend, but that's about it) and there is nothing in the film besides some of Wallace's dialogue to indicate that the movie has any interest in illuminating Wallace's fiction, or the obsessions that he worked into them.

It is very much an Amadeus and Salieri story, and if you are familiar with Amadeus, and the barest outlines of Wallace's life, and the fact that this is based on a nonfiction book by the writer David Lipsky, you know how the story must end: with Lipsky gaining a greater measure of fame via his brief association with Wallace and not being quite sure how to feel about it. The best thing you could say about "The End of the Tour" is that it could've been about any two creative people. That's also the worst thing you could say about it.

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The End of the Tour tells the story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter (and novelist) David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel), which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace’s groundbreaking epic novel, Infinite Jest . As the days go on, a tenuous yet intense relationship seems to develop between journalist and subject. The two men bob and weave around each other, sharing laughs and also possibly revealing hidden frailties—but it’s never clear how truthful they are being with each other. Ironically, the interview was never published, and five days of audio tapes were packed away in Lipsky’s closet. The two men did not meet again. The film is based on Lipsky’s critically acclaimed memoir about this unforgettable encounter, written following Wallace’s 2008 suicide. Both Segel and Eisenberg reveal great depths of emotion in their performances and the film is directed with humor and tenderness by Sundance vet James Ponsoldt from Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies’ insightful and heartbreaking screenplay.

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The End of the Tour takes an interesting approach to telling the story of David Foster Wallace by structuring it around the author's five-day interview with Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky in 1996. The film may be self-indulgent at times, but stars Segel and Eisenberg anchor the proceedings with just the right amount of emotion and complexity. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Max Nicholson is a writer for IGN, and he desperately seeks your approval. Show him some love by following @Max_Nicholson on Twitter, or MaxNicholson on IGN.

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This story of the five-day 1996 interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace explores the tenuous yet intense relationship that develops between journalist and subject.

A compassionate biography that swerves convention, The End of the Tour is anchored by two ambitious lead performances and a sharp, observational screenplay. James Ponsoldt fashions a literary road movie that finds humor and a pensive melancholy in the intangibility of fame and the creative process.

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By A.O. Scott

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“There’s an unhappy paradox about literary biographies,” David Foster Wallace observed in The New York Times Book Review in 2004, in reference to “Borges: A Life.” Readers who pick up such books, drawn by their admiration for a writer’s work, are likely to find themselves distracted and disappointed by a welter of iffy theories and picayune data. In the case of Borges, Wallace argued, “the stories so completely transcend their motive cause that the biographical facts become, in the deepest and most literal way, irrelevant.”

The same can be said of Wallace himself, and, for that matter, of just about any author worth reading. The work is everything; the life is trivia. And since I’m about to praise a movie about David Foster Wallace that claims fidelity to at least some of the facts of his life, I should perhaps identify myself as a devoted nonconsumer of literary biographies, an avowed biopic skeptic and, unless someone offers me a lot of money to write one, a habitual avoider of celebrity profiles. So by all rights I should hate “ The End of the Tour ,” James Ponsoldt’s new film, a portrait of the writer that has its origins in a (never-published) magazine profile. In fact, I love it.

Some of the people closest to Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008, have condemned the movie sight unseen, and friends of his who did see it ( one of them also a friend of mine) have found fault with both its details and its overall design. As an ardent , ambivalent reader of Wallace’s prose and a complete stranger to him personally, I can only respect such objections. But the movie, in my view, disarms them — not because it offers an especially loving or lifelike picture of its subject but rather because David Foster Wallace is not really its subject at all. “The End of the Tour” is at once an exercise in post-postmodern literary mythmaking and an unsparing demolition of the contemporary mythology of the writer. It’s ultimately a movie — one of the most rigorous and thoughtful I’ve seen — about the ethical and existential traps our fame-crazed culture sets for the talented and the mediocre alike.

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There are two Davids in the movie, which takes place in 1996. Both of them are writers. One is Wallace (Jason Segel), whose third book of fiction, the 1,079-page dystopian tennis-rehab epic “Infinite Jest,” has just been published to hyperbolic acclaim . The other is David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg), whose own recently released novel, “The Art Fair,” has met with polite indifference. An early scene finds him on his couch reading “Infinite Jest” while his girlfriend, Sarah (Anna Chlumsky), is curled up with the season’s other fictional blockbuster, the anonymously published political roman à clef “Primary Colors.” (Oh, the ’90s. Sorry you missed all the fun, kids. Kind of sorry I didn’t.)

David L., a new, probationary hire at Rolling Stone magazine, convinces his skeptical editor (Ron Livingston) that David F.W. is worthy of a feature article, and so finds himself in Bloomington, Ill., in the middle of winter. (Wallace taught for many years at Illinois State University.) The plan is that the reporter will accompany the novelist to Minneapolis, the last stop on his book tour. He does, and that’s pretty much the plot of the movie.

Mr. Ponsoldt, whose earlier features include “The Spectacular Now” and “Smashed,” would much rather observe two people in aimless conversation than usher them through the tollbooths of narrative convention. And conversation, including the uncomfortable silences that punctuate it, is pretty much the entire substance of “The End of the Tour.” Yes, there’s a fair amount of smoking and junk-food eating, an excursion to the Mall of America and a multiplex showing of “ Broken Arrow ” (with John Travolta taking a missile to the gut), but Mr. Ponsoldt and the screenwriter, the playwright Donald Margulies, allow words to speak louder than actions.

Many of the words are Wallace’s own, uttered into Mr. Lipsky’s tape recorder in 1996 and transcribed, 14 years later, for publication in a book called “ Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself .” Funny, intriguing and revealing as this talk may be, it does not have anything like the status of Wallace’s writing. The film not only acknowledges this distinction, but it also insists on it. In his would-be profiler’s company, occasionally glancing at the menacing red light of the predigital tape recorder, Wallace is by turns cagey and candid, witty and earnest, but he is always aware, at times painfully, that he is playing the role of a writer in someone else’s fantasy. Actually writing is something he does when no one else is around.

Mr. Segel’s performance, whether it captures the true Wallace or not, is sharp and sensitive, in no small part because it’s modest and appropriately evasive. The essential David Wallace is precisely what the film reminds us we can’t see, even as David Lipsky wants desperately to track him down and display him to the readers of Rolling Stone. Wallace is caught in a familiar set of contradictions. He wants attention but craves solitude. He’s willing to collaborate with the machinery of publicity even as he worries about the phoniness of it all. He’s ambitious and eager to protect himself from the consequences of his ambition. In short, he’s a famous writer.

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As such he is, for his short-term companion, both alpha dog and prey, an object of envy as well as admiration, a meal ticket and an imaginary friend. The film poses the question “Who is the real David Foster Wallace?” as a feint. He is its premise, its axiom, its great white whale. The more relevant question, the moral problem on which the movie turns, is “who is David Lipsky?”

In real life, David Lipsky might be a great guy, but on screen he is played by Mr. Eisenberg, which means that his genetic material is at least 25 percent weasel. Wallace at one point playfully describes himself as “pleasantly unpleasant.” Lipsky is unpleasantly pleasant, which is much worse. Twitchy and ingratiating, he wants to be a tough journalist and a pal. He desperately wants Wallace to regard him as a peer and can hardly contain his jealousy. He berates Sarah after she chats with Wallace on the phone and falls into a defensive snit after Wallace accuses him of flirting with Betsy (Mickey Sumner), a poet who had known Wallace in graduate school.

His awfulness is, to some degree, structural. A profile writer, especially in the company of another writer, is a false friend who dreams of being a secret sharer. Lipsky’s assignment is to pry, distort and betray, to use Wallace’s words and the details of his existence as material for his own dubious project. Wallace knows this and acquiesces to it — “you agreed to the interview” is Lipsky’s fallback when his subject gets prickly — and generally handles himself with grace and forbearance.

You may find yourself wishing that he didn’t have to, which is to say wishing that “The End of the Tour” didn’t exist even as you hang on its every word and revel in its rough, vernacular beauty. In an ideal world, we would all sit at home reading “Infinite Jest” and then go out to eat hamburgers, argue about philosophy and watch cheesy action blockbusters. There would be no pseudo-authoritative biographies or prying, preening magazine profiles to complicate our pleasures, and ambitious actors would not dare to impersonate beloved novelists. But the world we live in is plagued by all of those things. There will always be films about writers and writing, and this one is just about as good as it gets.

“The End of the Tour” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Language. So much language.

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The end of the tour.

2015 Directed by James Ponsoldt

Imagine the greatest conversation you've ever had.

Jason Segel Jesse Eisenberg Mamie Gummer Mickey Sumner Johnny Otto Anna Chlumsky Joan Cusack Becky Ann Baker Ron Livingston Stephanie Cotton Dan John Miller Noel Fletcher Michael J. Stalmer Punnavith Koy Ben Phelps Joel Thingvall Ryan J. Gilmer Alan Holasek

Director Director

James Ponsoldt

Producers Producers

David Kanter Matt DeRoss Louise Lovegrove James Dahl Ted O'Neal James Samson Rowan Riley William Colling

Executive Producers Exec. Producers

Paul Green Donald Margulies Mark Levinson

Writer Writer

Donald Margulies

Casting Casting

Avy Kaufman

Editor Editor

Darrin Navarro

Cinematography Cinematography

Production design production design.

Gerald Sullivan

Art Direction Art Direction

Sarah M. Pott

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Yvette Granata Derek Berk

Visual Effects Visual Effects

Matthew Bramante

Composer Composer

Danny Elfman

Sound Sound

Leslie Shatz Greg Mauer Ryan Collins James Bailey Jean-Yves Munch Joel Walker

Costume Design Costume Design

Emma Potter

Makeup Makeup

Karri Farris Julie Strating

Hairstyling Hairstyling

Stephanie Strowbridge Katherine Kousakis

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23 jan 2015.

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31 Jul 2015

22 jan 2016, 12 nov 2015, 19 nov 2015, 11 feb 2016, 17 mar 2016, 04 jan 2016, 18 mar 2016, releases by country.

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Premiere Sundance Film Festival
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Review by Matt Singer ★★★★ 6

There can be great joy in seeing yourself onscreen. And there can be pain as well.

In The End of the Tour , Jesse Eisenberg plays a writer named David Lipsky. He has a full-time job at Rolling Stone , and he’s just published a novel. By most standard definitions, he would be considered "successful." But his novel’s gone mostly unnoticed and writing boy band profiles isn’t exactly fulfilling. Something’s missing.

When David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest , published around the same time as Lipsky’s own novel, becomes a critical sensation, he reacts with skepticism at his rival’s achievement. Then he reads that achievement for himself. When he does, director James Ponsoldt holds on a long shot of Eisenberg sitting on Lipsky’s couch,…

Review by Buddy O ★★★★½ 1

Jason Segel needs to be in more things.

Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 11

The End of the Tour is an intimate and delicate exploration of artists, their motivations, and their various influences on aspects of fame, ego, and relationships. With the perfect modern romance The Spectacular Now within his relatively-slim filmography, James Ponsoldt has already set a high-bar in regards to expectations, but I can happily report that my predictions for The End of the Tour came true. This is a beautiful film.

Supported by two stunning performances, The End of the Tour succeeds so brilliantly because of the rapid-fire and supremely naturalistic screenplay, allowing substantial character depth and richness to be drawn from the pages. Jason Segel is the most talked-about aspect here, and for good reason. His portrayal of David…

Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★½ 5

Nashville Scene review . One tiny thing I couldn't possibly find a way to fit into it, but which will probably be what I'll recall most vividly about this rather mundane film in years to come: Wallace puts Murmur on at his house, and we actually hear the album play as he and Lipsky talk. As in, "Perfect Circle" ends and then "Catapult," which is in fact the next song, begins. Whether because of rights issues or just because dialogue scenes rarely run long enough, hearing two consecutive songs from the same album—commonplace in real life—almost never happens in movies. In fact, I can't remember another example offhand, which is why it jumped out at me. A meaningless touch, perhaps, but welcome nonetheless.

Review by LETTRISTB0XD 2

Spectators who enjoyed this film may also enjoy: -My Dinner With Andre -Before Midnight -Nekromantik -2 hours of defocused images of snow accompanied by introspective ambient synths -Placing the Blu-ray on a shelf next to This Is Water and none of David Foster Wallace's significant works -Imagining David Lipsky falling down an industrial staircase that descends infinitely into the void

Review by matt lynch ★★½ 1

Spoilers for BROKEN ARROW I guess.

Review by Sally Darr ★★★★ 3

fuck me I have to read infinite jest now

Review by Kurdt ★★★★★ 11

First, some context. I first watched this film last November, loved it, and became intrigued about David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest for those that don’t know. Of course I’d heard of IJ, this infamous gargantuan novel that had astounded readers and seemed to take on a life of it’s own as something people would declare “changed their life” on a relatively regular basis. I had half-considered reading it a few times in the past but the idea of reading a 1000+ page novel just killed any vibe I had with it. It certainly sounded great, but I had never read anything that long in my lifetime; I was also on a binge to read as many books as…

Review by Gonzo ★★★★½ 2

▶ 2015 Movie Rankings

“I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.”

It's crazy how such a great film ends up buried and forgotten come awards season, but here we are. Fifty Shades of Grey is now an Academy Award nominee. The End of the Tour , however, is not.

Don't be put off by the seemingly boring premise of two guys simply talking, The End of the Tour is an excellent and absorbing character study. The road-trip biopic is like this generation's My Dinner with Andre —nothing fancy, never showy, but rich in profundity and emotion. Even the ending is low-key brilliant.

The film works…

Review by Disgustipated ★★★★★ 2

For most of my life, from as early as I can remember, I suffered from major depression. I sometimes felt compelled to kill myself, yet I was simultaneously desperate to remain alive. Despite the constant pull towards death, as though the grim reaper was hooking my by the neck with the round end of a walking stick and trying to yank me out of myself, I never once wanted to give up the ghost of this experience called life in all of its chaotic, uncertain and absurd glory. As such, I found it difficult to reconcile these two diametrically opposed feuding desires, locked as they were in some kind of Manichaen battle to the death. It almost seemed that Freud…

Review by Josh Larsen ★★★★ 4

Nimbly takes some of the more provocative, wide-ranging ideas from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest – about loneliness, ego, addictive entertainment and American achievement – and lets them play out in the intimate arena of conversation. It’s My Dinner with Andre, but set in cars and over the dismal junk food that the movie suggests was the basis of Wallace’s diet.

Full review here .

Review by Jerry McGlothlin ★★★ 15

Having read a fair bit of DFW and being a big fan of his work, The End of the Tour manages to, I think, capture a little of the man: a brilliantly talented writer who was deeply troubled and in many ways, flawed and imperfect, but these qualities are precisely what made him the great artist he was. People have a tendency to deify Wallace and the film does a great job at sort of demystifying him—this is for the best. For as much as I admire his work, I must admit that I’m not a fan of people who put him or any other profoundly skilled artist on the kind of pedestal that he often ends up on. Though this…

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Why didn't david lipsky's interview appear in rolling stone magazine.

In March of 1996, after Lipsky spent five days traveling on the Infinite Jest book tour in Illinois and Minnesota, he was preparing to begin writing his profile on David Foster Wallace. However, the profile never happened. "There had been some heroin troubles in Seattle," said Lipsky during a Center for Fiction speaking engagement , "and so I got reassigned to that story. ...and when I got back and finished the [heroin] story, it was about a month and a half afterwards and it was too late. So I never had to write the piece." As shown in the movie, it wasn't until after David Foster Wallace's suicide in 2008 that Lipsky revisited his recorded interviews with Wallace, which he published in 2010 under the title Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself . -The Center for Fiction The real David Lipsky never wrote his profile on David Foster Wallace for Rolling Stone because he was pulled away for another assignment, and it eventually became too late to do the piece.

Did David Foster Wallace's estate support the making of the movie?

No. In researching The End of the Tour true story, we discovered that the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust conveyed strong opposition to the movie, making it clear that they were never contacted, nor did they give permission to the filmmakers. Upon learning of the movie, they released the following statement, which reads: "The David Foster Wallace Literary Trust, David's family, and David's longtime publisher Little, Brown and Company wish to make it clear that they have no connection with, and neither endorse nor support The End of the Tour . This motion picture is loosely based on transcripts from an interview David consented to eighteen years ago for a magazine article about the publication of his novel, Infinite Jest . That article was never published and David would never have agreed that those saved transcripts could later be repurposed as the basis of a movie. The Trust was given no advance notice that this production was underway and, in fact, first heard of it when it was publicly announced. For the avoidance of doubt, there is no circumstance under which the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust would have consented to the adaptation of this interview into a motion picture, and we do not consider it an homage." -LATimes.com

Did David Foster Wallace really live alone with his dogs in rural Illinois?

Yes, after he had written a significant amount of Infinite Jest , he bought his first house on the outskirts of Bloomington, Illinois and got his first dog, Jeeves, at the pound. Like we see in The End of the Tour movie, he was a bit unkempt but still highly intelligent and insightful. He painted his writing room black and filled it with vintage lamps ( The New Yorker ). Eventually, he did marry, tying the knot with artist Karen Green on December 27, 2004 ( Rolling Stone ). Jason Segel (left) in The End of the Tour movie, and the real David Foster Wallace (right) delivering a 2005 commencement speech .

How accurate are the conversations between David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace in the movie?

The End of the Tour true story reveals that the majority of the conversations in the movie between the author Wallace (Jason Segel) and the journalist Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) were taken almost verbatim from the real David Lipsky's taped conversations with Wallace. -SlashFilm.com

How exactly did David Foster Wallace die?

On September 12, 2008, David Foster Wallace's wife, artist Karen L. Green, returned to their Claremont, California home to find that Wallace had hung himself from a patio rafter. He left a two-page note and prepared part of the manuscript for The Pale King , the novel he had been working on but had not finished ( Every Love Story is a Ghost Story ). His father, James Wallace, said his son had suffered from depression for over twenty years and in June 2007, had stopped taking his primary medication after suffering severe side effects ( The New York Times ). When his depression returned, he underwent electro-convulsive therapy and even tried going back onto his old medication, phenelzine, but it had lost its effectiveness ( Rolling Stone ). Jason Segel (left) portrays David Foster Wallace (right), who committed suicide on September 12, 2008.

When did David Foster Wallace begin suffering from depression?

David Foster Wallace was first diagnosed with depression in the early 1980s when he was an undergraduate at Amherst College. Ever since that time, he had used medication to manage his symptoms ( The New Yorker ). "He had left for college and he came back his sophomore year in the middle of the year unexpectedly," said sister Amy Wallace during an interview with Electric Cereal . "This just stunned all of us. We had absolutely no idea what he was going through and what he was struggling with, and that was a very memorable and difficult time." Amy says that David had been "a very, very volatile and moody teenager," but he was "very, very secretive too." She believes that he had likely been having depression-related feelings in high school, especially in his senior year of high school, and the depression got much worse during college. -Electric Cereal

David Lipsky turned the transcripts of his conversations with the real David Foster Wallace into a book titled Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself . Did travelling with David Foster Wallace really have a profound impact on David Lipsky?

Yes. "Travelling with him was about as much fun as I've had travelling with anybody or ever talking to anybody," says the real David Lipsky. "He was just incredibly awake." -The Center for Fiction

Why did David Lipsky decide to turn his essays into a book after David Foster Wallace died?

"I wanted to think of a way to kind of remind people of what he was like when he was alive," says the real David Lipsky. Following Wallace's death, Lipsky received an email from Wallace's sister, Amy, who said she was being contacted by reporters and fans. She expressed her desire that her brother be remembered as a "real living person." Lipsky decided to write the book as basically a transcript of them talking because he wanted to honor Wallace's fear of having someone write about him and shape the conversation however they wished. The book, titled Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace , became the basis for The End of the Tour movie. -The Center for Fiction

David Foster Wallace's 1,079-page novel Infinite Jest is a satire about the entertainment-obsessed culture in America. What is the novel Infinite Jest about?

At 1,079 pages, David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest takes place in a near-future North American dystopia where the United States, Mexico, and Canada form a giant superstate called the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.). The novel is not science fiction but rather falls into the realm of satire, humorously addressing various elements of American culture, including entertainment and addiction, which it suggests adversely affect our ability to think and connect with other people on a meaningful level. What does our indulgence in such pleasures say about who we are as human beings? The characters that bring these philosophical debates to life interact mainly within the novel's two primary locations, a tennis academy and a halfway-house, which turn out to be surprisingly similar.

For more insight into The End of the Tour true story, watch two David Foster Wallace interviews, including a 1997 appearance on Charlie Rose and a candid interview on the German television station ZDF. Then view an interview with the real David Lipsky, portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg in The End of the Tour movie.

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The end of the tour, common sense media reviewers.

Brilliant, intuitive, mature look at a unique friendship.

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What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

Though there's no obvious moral, there's p

No clear role models, but teens interested in purs

Reference to suicide.

References to masturbation, sleeping with anonymou

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References to McDonalds, KFC, Taco Bell, Pepsi, M&

Characters regularly smoke cigarettes. Use of chew

Positive Messages

Though there's no obvious moral, there's plenty to think about in terms of celebrity, journalism, writing, friendship, and loyalty. The film also touches briefly on issues of addiction and suicide.

Positive Role Models

No clear role models, but teens interested in pursuing a writing career may be interested to get a glimpse at a successful novelist and a successful journalist.

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References to masturbation, sleeping with anonymous female fans during a book tour, and oral sex.

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References to McDonalds, KFC, Taco Bell, Pepsi, M&Ms, Pop Tarts, and Topol (the smoker's tooth-polish).

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Characters regularly smoke cigarettes. Use of chewing tobacco. Drinking beer in a social setting. References to drinking, snorting cocaine, and using heroin.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that The End of the Tour is a superb, mature drama based on a 1996 interview between reporter David Lipsky ( Jesse Eisenberg ) and author David Foster Wallace ( Jason Segel ). There's a reference to suicide and some very strong language ("f--k," "s--t," etc.), plus several sexual references (to masturbation, anonymous sex, oral sex, etc.), though no actual sex is shown. Characters smoke a lot of cigarettes and drink socially; cocaine, heroin, and other drugs are also referenced but not shown. Though the movie is talky, it's also intelligent, subtle, and profound, touching on topics like celebrity, journalism, writing, friendship, and loyalty (as wel as, briefly, issues like addiction and suicide). Teens interested in pursuing writing as a career will find plenty to think about here. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the Story?

In 2008, Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky ( Jesse Eisenberg ) hears about the suicide of author David Foster Wallace ( Jason Segel ). He remembers back to 1996, when he stumbled upon Wallace's game-changing novel, Infinite Jest , and convinced his editor to let him write a cover story on its author. The two men spent five days together at the end of Wallace's book tour, covering topics ranging from fame and literature to fast food and Alanis Morrisette. In their time together, they seem to grow closer, but the business of the interview always intrudes. Perhaps in other circumstances, they could have been close friends, but for now it's up to Lipsky to decide how to portray this fascinating, complex artist.

Is It Any Good?

An expert at potent, intimate character dramas, director James Ponsoldt tops himself with this brilliant, intuitive examination of a unique working friendship. Working from an adapted screenplay by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies, THE END OF THE TOUR creates uncanny intimacy and subtle tension between two men, both writers but hardly equals.

Scenes of direct questioning can be revealing, but the downtimes -- i.e. talking about food or smoking -- are especially powerful. Other scenes deconstruct the interview process and the strange dynamic between an interviewer and his subject. Though Segel has the showier role, he and Eisenberg are evenly matched -- and exemplary (with a hilarious Joan Cusack in a small role). The movie's situation may not be familiar to many moviegoers, but these two actors explore complex connections, making the experience a profoundly human one. It's a great journalism movie -- and a great movie, period.

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Families can talk about the characters' heavy smoking . Does it make them cooler? Deeper? Is it any more acceptable because the movie takes place in a different time?

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Movie Details

In theaters : July 31, 2015
On DVD or streaming : November 3, 2015
Cast : Jason Segel , Jesse Eisenberg , Joan Cusack
Director : James Ponsoldt
Studio : A24
Genre : Drama
Topics : Friendship
Run time : 106 minutes
MPAA rating : R
MPAA explanation : language including some sexual references
Last updated : August 3, 2022

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“From early on, R.E.M. and Brian Eno were a band and a musician that sort of factored into the time that David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace spent together,” director James Ponsoldt told ComingSoon recently. “And they had conversations about what they listened to. So I knew that R.E.M. and Eno would feature in the movie.” And indeed they do. Lakeshore Records has released details on the soundtrack for “ The End of The Tour ,” Ponsoldt’s latest drama that stars Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel.

READ MORE: Sundance Review: James Ponsoldt’s ‘The End Of The Tour’ Starring Jason Segel & Jesse Eisenberg

Set in the mid 90s and chronicling the story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter as well as novelist David Lipsky (Eisenberg) and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Segel), which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace’s groundbreaking epic novel, “ Infinite Jest ,” the soundtrack to “The End Of The Tour” features R.E.M, Felt, Tracey Ullman, Fun Boy Three, Brian Eno, Tindersticks , with a score by Danny Elfman that’s more in line with his work with Gus Van Sant than Tim Burton.

READ MORE: Watch: Jason Segel Plays David Foster Wallace Opposite Jesse Eisenberg In The First Trailer For ‘The End Of The Tour’

“I was interested in doing something that would be like 25 minutes of score that’s ultra minimalist, that’s real undertones to the movie,” Ponsoldt described. “I think [Elfman] was really excited about the challenge of this.” The closing credits have a cool treat too, The Tindersticks ’ evocative cover of Pavement ’s iconic 90s ballad, “Here.”

Lakeshore Records will release the sound track digitally on July 24th and on CD August 28, 2015. Tracklist below.

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Jeff Lynne’s ELO have announced their final tour, dubbed “The Over and Out Tour.” The 27-date excursion, produced by Live Nation, will kick off in Palm Desert, CA on August 24 and travel across North America before concluding in Los Angeles on October 25.

Artist presale will begin on Wednesday, March 20 at 10 a.m. local time and the general onsale will start on Friday, March 22 at 10 a.m. local time. Exclusive VIP experiences will be available March 20 at 10am local.

“A brilliant catalog returns to U.S. stages and gives the strings-starved people what they want,” Variety wrote of the group’s previous tour in 2018. “The ELO catalog speaks for itself… and it was a glorious thing to behold… in a 19-song set that reprised the closest thing to truly Beatle-level pop the 1970s had to offer.”

ELO — originally named the Electric Light Orchestra — was formed in 1972 by singers/multi-instrumentalists Lynne and Roy Wood and drummer Bev Bevan from the ashes of legendary rockers the Move, with the intention of fusing rock music with classical instruments. Wood left after one album and Lynne assumed leadership of the group — taking on lead singer, songwriter, producer and guitarist roles — which went on to score such massive hits through the ‘70s as “Evil Woman,” “Strange Magic,” “Living Thing,” “Can’t Get It Out of My Head,” “Mr. Blue Sky,” “Telephone Line,” “Don’t Bring Me Down” and more.

Lynne revived the ELO brand in 2001, with himself and longtime keyboardist Richard Tandy as the only remaining early members, for the album “Zoom” (featuring Harrison and Starr) and tour. He did so again in 2014 and has toured extensively and released two albums with the group, 2015’s “Alone in the Universe” and 2019’s “From Out of Nowhere.”

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3 Farewell Tours That We Wish Weren’t The End

B ands love to announce their farewell tours only to come back a year or two later. However, some bands really do call it quits with a final tour, and some of those tours leave fans genuinely wanting more. And these three farewell tours that we wish weren’t the end actually were, in fact, their final acts.

1. The Dillinger Escape Plan, 2017

This is one of those farewell tours that we wish weren’t the end that hurts, especially for metalcore fans. The Dillinger Escape Plan is still loved by many, but unfortunately, they finished their final tour back in 2017. Their press release seemed a bit open-ended, but the “extended hiatus” became a final hiatus. The band promoted their final album Dissociation , seemingly at the height of their career, and haven’t toured since. Some members have also ventured into new careers.

Since disbanding, some members of the band have performed together. In 2023, a reunion was announced to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Calculating Infinity , but it doesn’t look like the band is officially getting back together anytime soon.

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2. Slayer, 2019

Slayer fans are as diehard as it gets, and many were disappointed to hear that the band would launch their final tour in 2018. The tour ended in 2019 with the final show in Los Angeles, which was noted for being a truly energetic send-off.

“I want to thank you for sharing your time with us,” Slayer frontman Tom Araya said at the end of the show. “Time is precious. So I thank you for sharing that time with us, thank you. I’m gonna miss you guys.”

There have been rumors about a reunion. However, the band hasn’t toured since their final show.

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3. Foreigner, 2024

This final tour is still ongoing, but it really does look like the end for Foreigner. They’re currently trying to get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the founding members have either passed away or left the band , and Mick Jones is no longer performing due to his battle with Parkinson’s disease. We don’t want Foreigner to end, but it feels like the perfect time. The current farewell tour is slated to end this year and seems like the perfect end to a nearly 50-year career.

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Madonna will end celebration tour with 'historic' free rio concert.

Sexy on the beach!

Madonna has announced she will bring her top-grossing Celebration tour to a spectacular close with a free performance in Rio that is expected to become her most-attended, most-viewed gig of all time.

Still setting records over 40 years into her career, Madonna could attract up to 2 million spectators.

The Queen of Pop, 65, will perform Saturday, May 4, at Rio's Copacabana Beach. The show, sponsored by Itaú Apresenta, is on a first-come, first-served basis, and will be mounted at 9:45 p.m. local time in front of the Belmond Copacabana Palace Hotel.

In a press release, her team promises, "The show will be free of charge as a thank you to her fans for celebrating more than four decades of her music over the course of the epic global run of the tour." No tickets are required.

The show — her first live performance in Brazil in over 10 years — will air live on TV Globo.

Celebration is expected to top a quarter-billion dollars in sales by the time it ends. The sold-out tour launched in October in London before moving to North America, where it had been expected to conclude at the end of April in Mexico City.

With the confirmation of the Rio date, Celebration will have encompassed more than 80 shows, including upcoming stops in Dallas (tonight), Houston, Atlanta, Tampa, Miami, and Austin.

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The end will not come with a bang, they say, but with a TikTok post featuring a fake incel bragging about his prolific sex life. We’re paraphrasing slightly, but somehow, we don’t think the folks behind Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World will mind — this is a movie that gleefully blends highbrow references and dick jokes while bending reality to its breaking point. The latest satire from Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, this provocation takes aim at a host of subjects: social media, the mainstream media, the pro forma 80-hour work week, rampant misogyny (on- and offline), revisionist histories and red-pilled influencers. Rather than just raise a much-deserved middle finger to all of these topics, however, Jude heats up this toxic stew in the name of mapping out a slow-moving downward spiral as we amuse and abuse ourselves to death. Its title may be a mouthful, but the more accurate handle Apocalypse Now was, regrettably, already spoken for.

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Unveiling Success: A Recap of 2023 and Exciting Prospects for 2024

As we reflect on the achievements of 2023 and set our sights on the promising horizons of 2024, it is evident that our journey at Tour Partner Group continues to be one of resilience, growth, and unwavering commitment to excellence. From the resurgence of short-haul travel to Europe to the burgeoning demand from our long-haul markets in Asia and Latin America, Tour Partner Group’s business stands tall amidst a landscape of evolving travel trends and consumer preferences.

2023: A Resilient Recovery

The financial year 2023 marked a remarkable resurgence for us, underscored by a robust focus on short-haul travel and the USA into Europe. This strategic pivot not only fuelled our recovery but also laid the groundwork for sustained growth across multiple segments of our business.

One standout highlight was the extraordinary performance in the Nordic region during the winter market, where we witnessed over 30% year-on-year revenue growth. This impressive feat was buoyed by the resurgence of our Asia inbound market, surpassing all expectations, and reaffirming our position as a leader in the travel industry.

Moreover, our meetings & incentives business, HORIZONS by Tour Parter Group, set the stage for a stellar year ahead by hosting over 2,000 French sports fans and the French team during their Six Nations trip to Edinburgh. With the launch of our meetings & incentives proposition spanning the entire UK and Nordics, we’re poised for even greater success in the realm of corporate travel and event management.

2024: A Promising Outlook

Following our successes in 2023 we have started 2024 with optimism. Our pipeline for Group bookings remains robust, with trends mirroring those observed in Q1 across the UK, Ireland, and FIT markets. Notably, our US (Authentic Vacations – B2C) outbound business continues to thrive, fuelled by the persistent demand for European travel and the launch of our branded guided touring business.

What’s particularly encouraging is the symbiotic relationship between our growth initiatives and the increasing market share across Tour Partner Group. As more customers entrust us with their travel experiences, we’re not only expanding our reach but also redefining industry standards.

Key Developments Beyond Travel

Beyond the realm of travel, our achievements extend to various operational enhancements and organisational milestones. High engagement and retention rates among our teams speak volumes about our commitment to fostering a culture of inclusivity, innovation, and professional development.

Furthermore, our strategic investments in technology, such as the rollout of a global HRIS, migration to centralised management information systems (MI), and transitioning to cloud-based platforms, signify our unwavering dedication to operational efficiency and agility.

The acquisition and integration of our Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Events (MICE) business onto a single operating platform underscore our commitment to driving synergies and maximising efficiency across all facets of our operations.

Looking Ahead

As we chart our course for the future, the trajectory of Tour Partner Group is defined by resilience, adaptability, and an unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional travel experiences. With a seemingly renewed appetite for travel and a team of passionate individuals driving our success, the journey ahead promises to be nothing short of extraordinary.

2023 served as a testament to our ability to weather storms and emerge stronger, while 2024 presents us with a canvas of opportunities. As we navigate the ever-evolving landscape of the travel industry, one thing remains constant—our steadfast dedication to exceeding expectations and shaping the future of travel.

Stay tuned as we continue to unfold new chapters of success, innovation, and adventure at Tour Partner Group. The best is yet to come.

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2024 Valspar Championship leaderboard, grades: Peter Malnati secures first PGA Tour win since 2015

Malnati earned an invite to the 2024 masters field after putting an end to his drought on sunday at innisbrook.

The year of the long shot on the PGA Tour continues. Peter Malnati, who was a 325-1 underdog to win the Valspar Championship when the week started, went out and won the tournament for his first victory in nine years. This performance coming after shooting 81 in the final round at the Players Championship just a week ago.

Malnati shot 4-under 67 in the final round at Innisbrook to beat Cameron Young by two and Chandler Phillips and Mackenzie Hughes by three. It's Malnati's first victory since the 2015 Sanderson Farms Championship and also earned him an invite to the first Masters of his career next month.

So much about the win is improbable.

The fact that he shot 81 in his most recent round then went out and torched a field that included Young, Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth and Sam Burns.
That, as a PGA Tour player director, he began the week on a private jet in the Bahamas negotiating the future of the PGA Tour alongside Tiger Woods, Patrick Cantlay, Spieth and others with Saudi Arabia PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan and then returned to win this tournament.
That he has one top-five finish anywhere since the start of 2022.
That he shot 31 on the back nine of this course to beat one of the more talented ball strikers in the world.

None of that was lost on him as he broke down in tears on the 72nd green and openly wept in his interview on NBC following the victory.

The vulnerability here is extraordinary. This interview rules. pic.twitter.com/X7QwOcHKGF — Kyle Porter (@KylePorterCBS) March 24, 2024

"I told myself I was going to do my best on every shot, and that was what I did," he told NBC. "I was so nervous coming down the stretch. A lot of those shots, you kind of see it. The approach into 16 was terrible. You can't describe it. It's so cool. It's so cool to share it ... it's just amazing, it's just amazing.

"You wonder if you're ever going to do it again. It's hard. In the nine years since my last win, it's gotten a lot harder, too. You look at the level of talent out here. Guys coming out when they're 20 years old and they're ready to play on this stage, and they're so good. You just wonder. To have this moment, it just feels so amazing. Obviously, my family believes in me. I have the best caddie. He's been loyal to me for a long time, through a lot of down times, too. I'm so thankful. I'm so thankful for my wife. She makes this all possible.

"Life is hard. It's obviously glamorous at times like this. This is my dream job, and it's absolutely amazing. But life is really, really hard, too. When you're trying to figure out how to live this lifestyle and have two kids and be everything you want to be, it's really hard. My wife has been an absolute rock through all of it. She's amazing. My family is amazing. It just feels so good. It feels so good."

A 325-1 long shot shoots 67 on Sunday to get into the Masters and cries openly on national television while holding his young kids and talking about how long the road to that victory has been?

How can you not be romantic about golf? Grade: A++

Here are the rest of our grades for the 2024 Valspar Championship.

2. Cameron Young (-10): It's been a strange year for Young, who has multiple top 10s on the season, including Sunday's weird and somewhat disappointing (?) runner-up finish that included a three-putt at the last to almost completely take himself out of even a chance at a playoff (he was down one to Malnati when he three-putted with Malnati playing the 18th hole behind him).

He seems to be hitting the heck out of the golf ball right now, and his bad weeks are usually a function of an ice-cold putter. Still, it makes no sense that has not won on the PGA Tour yet. That seems like it should be about to happen, and if he keeps hitting it like this, it will. But as good as the good has been this year, like the next golfer in our grades, it doesn't mean a lot to Young unless he starts collecting trophies. Grade: A-

T5. Xander Schauffele (-8): Following a near miss at the Players Championship, Schauffele was good on Day 1 at the Valspar but stalled over the next two days at Innisbrook. He hit a heater on Sunday, though, and shot a 65 to take a lengthy clubhouse lead that never truly had a chance of winning the golf tournament. It's hard to be disappointed in Schauffele -- whose finishes you can see below -- but not turning at least one of those into a win must be a bit of a bummer for him. Grade: A

Valspar Championship: T5
Players Championship: T2
Arnold Palmer Invitational: T25
Genesis Invitational: T4
Pebble Beach Pro-Am: T54
Farmers Insurance Open: T9
American Express: T3
The Sentry: T10

T64. Justin Thomas (+3): After a really positive first few months of the season, the last two weeks have been a step back for Thomas. He missed the cut at the Players Championship and finished outside the top 50 here at the Valspar Championship. His driver was a bit of a mess at times this week, but it was mostly horrific putting that pushed him down the leaderboard with an 8-over weekend after some real contention over the first two rounds. He lost nearly eight shots to the field on the greens on Saturday and Sunday with seven of those happening on Saturday when he made 22 total feet of putts in 18 holes (if you do the math here, this is a very difficult number for even an amateur to achieve). Grade: C

MC. Jordan Spieth (+1): I don't know what to make of Spieth just three weeks before the Masters. Is he playing well and just had a few bad weeks with missed cuts at the Players and Valspar? Is he playing terribly and got lucky with top 10s at the Sentry and Phoenix Open? Does any of this matter when he gets to a place like Augusta National where he thrives? There are, fittingly, more questions than answers as it relates to Spieth right now, even after three months of the season have been played. Grade: F

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Madonna will perform a free mega-concert in May on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach to close out her "Celebration" tour, the singer and organizers announced Monday.

Calling it her "biggest show yet," a statement on the pop icon's website said the concert is meant as a "thank you to her fans for celebrating more than four decades of her music."

The 65-year-old, whose greatest hits include such classics as "Like A Virgin" and "Material Girl," last performed in Brazil in 2012.

The May 4 mega-show will be her only concert in South America under her "Celebration" tour, which has taken her to more than a dozen countries and is meant to honor her 40-year career.

Organizers said that the show will have similarities with the New Year's Eve "Reveillon" parties held on the beaches of Rio.

In 2006, a Rolling Stones show in Copacabana attracted between 1.2 and 1.5 million people, according to estimates at the time.

The "Celebration" tour is now in North America, with three April performances in Miami and five in Mexico City, the only Latin American stop before Rio.

Madonna, who has won seven Grammy Awards and sold more than 300 million records worldwide, has additionally taken on acting, film directing and various business ventures over the years.

Madonna To End 'Celebration' Tour With Free Copacabana Show

Madonna will perform a free mega-concert in May on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach to close out her "Celebration" tour, the singer and organizers announced Monday.

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The End of the Tour takes an interesting approach to telling the story of David Foster Wallace by structuring it around the author's five-day interview with Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky in ...
The End of the Tour (2015)
Our take. A compassionate biography that swerves convention, The End of the Tour is anchored by two ambitious lead performances and a sharp, observational screenplay. James Ponsoldt fashions a literary road movie that finds humor and a pensive melancholy in the intangibility of fame and the creative process.
Review: 'The End of the Tour' Offers a Tale of Two Davids
Directed by James Ponsoldt. Biography, Drama. R. 1h 46m. By A.O. Scott. July 30, 2015. "There's an unhappy paradox about literary biographies," David Foster Wallace observed in The New York ...
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81/100. The End of the Tour is an intimate and delicate exploration of artists, their motivations, and their various influences on aspects of fame, ego, and relationships. With the perfect modern romance The Spectacular Now within his relatively-slim filmography, James Ponsoldt has already set a high-bar in regards to expectations, but I can happily report that my predictions for The End of ...
The End of the Tour (2015)
The End of the Tour true story reveals that the majority of the conversations in the movie between the author Wallace (Jason Segel) and the journalist Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) were taken almost verbatim from the real David Lipsky's taped conversations with Wallace.-SlashFilm.com. How exactly did David Foster Wallace die? On September 12, 2008, David Foster Wallace's wife, artist Karen L. Green ...
The End of the Tour Movie Review
Parents need to know that The End of the Tour is a superb, mature drama based on a 1996 interview between reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel).There's a reference to suicide and some very strong language ("f--k," "s--t," etc.), plus several sexual references (to masturbation, anonymous sex, oral sex, etc.), though no actual sex is shown.
The End of the Tour
The End of the Tour. Based on the true story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's ground-breaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'. IMDb 7.2 1 h 46 min 2015. R. Drama · Cerebral · Compelling · Philosophical.
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July 15, 2015 5:02 pm. "From early on, R.E.M. and Brian Eno were a band and a musician that sort of factored into the time that David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace spent together," director ...
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The End Of The Tour
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