I tweeted this morning, but it now looks like there are only standby tickets left for tonight's Melbourne, Australia, screening of The End of the Tour at the MIFF.
More info here: Melbourne International Film Festival 2015
Australian Reviews:
James Ley for The Sydney Review of Books, How Does it Feel to be Famous?:
[...]The End of the Tour is, despite all of this, pretty good – better, perhaps, than it has any right to be. It is set over the course of several days in early 1996, shortly after the publication of Wallace’s astonishing novel Infinite Jest, which generated what he described as a ‘miasma of hype’. Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) is a Rolling Stone reporter who is assigned to follow Wallace (Jason Segel) on the final leg of the promotional tour. He stays at Wallace’s house in Bloomington, Illinois, and travels with him to public appearances and interviews. Along the way, the pair engage in long and occasionally intense discussions, which range from the personal to the philosophical. From this emerges a character portrait and a reflection on the pressures and paradoxes of Wallace’s position.
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Continue reading, How Does it Feel to be Famous?
Philippa Hawker for The Sydney Morning Herald, MIFF - The End of the Tour review: Two lives and an uneasy proximity:
[...]What emerges most strongly is a to-and-fro between two men in uneasy proximity, engaged in a transaction whose terms are unclear, with certain things in common and a vast distance between them.
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Continue reading, MIFF - The End of the Tour review: Two lives and an uneasy proximity.
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