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...what we love, then Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti) is exactly like the wine he most treasures: Pinot. He loves that the grape is quirky and vulnerable--that it grows only in certain climates, that it tests the nurturing patience of its growers. And the flavor! For the connoisseur: haunting and thrilling. Which is just what his friends might say of the divorced, depressed, chronically romantic Miles...
Sideways sends Miles, a schoolteacher and the anguished author of a 759-page unpublished novel, and Jack, who used to be a TV sort-of star and now does voice-overs for commercials, up the California coast on a vacation of wine, women and golf the week before Jack's wedding. Sounds like your ordinary buddy road movie, with self- discovery lurking like a state trooper around every bend. It has two chase scenes and a car crash. But the film, scripted by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor and directed by Payne, is in no way ordinary. Since Miles...
Jack and Miles are ideal opposites. Miles is nerdy and needy, analyzing every sip of wine, fretting over every impulse, convinced that he's too insignificant a writer even to kill himself: "Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf--you can't commit suicide until you're published." Jack, whose fluorescent grin almost distracts from his fading good looks, still believes he has It. ("I get chicks lookin' at me all the time, all ages. Dudes too.") With a true actor's magnificent focus and minute attention span, he's so in the moment than he can convince himself of anything, including that...
...film follows Miles (Paul Giamatti), a burned-out teacher and struggling novelist, and his best friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church) on a road trip through California’s wine country organized to make the most of Jack’s last days of bachelorhood. The trip in Miles’ mind is about tasting great wines and in Jack’s is about getting laid as much as possible before marriage shuts him down. Despite their somewhat incredible friendship—they have completely opposing interests, outlooks and goals—the acting is exceptional and Giamatti...
...Major and PDQ Bach’s Eine Kleine Nichtmusik are just some of the offerings in this fully filled program. Isaiah Jackson conducts. There will also be a free pre-show half-hour of chamber music at 2 p.m. and a post-concert classical music singles club wine & cheese reception, for a minimal fee and with limited membership. Tickets $9-$45, $7-$43 students and seniors; $5 off WGBH members; rush tickets available. 3 p.m. Sanders Theatre...