ew.com - 10/24/2008
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It's a hallowed ritual of film culture. An artist makes a movie that is so labyrinthine and obscure, such a road map of blind alleys, such a turgid challenge to sit through that it sends most people skulking out of the theater except, that is, for a cadre of eggheads who hail the work as a ...
observer.com - 10/22/2008
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Running Time 124 minutes Written and directed by
Charlie Kaufman Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle...
Williams, Emily Watson, Samantha Morton, Dianne Wiest The word of the week is contrast. Decorating the top of the cake: a ...
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Could Synecdoche, New York Be the Worst Movie Ever? Yes! ...
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greencine.com - 10/22/2008
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By Jonathan Marlow [and his id] "There is
little precedent, cinematic or otherwise, for Synecdoche, New York...
," writes Michael Joshua Rowin in the L Magazine . "Sure, early on in his directorial debut, maestro screenwriter Charlie ...
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You Say Synecdoche: Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York
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... Owen Gleiberman, EW: It’s a hallowed ritual of film culture. An artist makes a movie that is so labyrinthine and obscure, such a road map of blind alleys, such a turgid challenge to sit through that it sends most people skulking out of the theater — except, that is, for a cadre of eggheads who hail the work as a visionary achievement. It happened in 1961, with that high-society puzzle obscura Last Year at Marienbad, and in 2006, with David Lynch’s through-the-looking-glass bore Inland Empire… Now Charlie Kaufman, the brain-tickling screenwriter of Eternal ...
More 'Synecdoche'; Pretentious Twattery And Heartbreaking Staggering Work Of Genius?
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... Owen Gleiberman, EW: It’s a hallowed ritual of film culture. An artist makes a movie that is so labyrinthine and obscure, such a road map of blind alleys, such a turgid challenge to sit through that it sends most people skulking out of the theater — except, that is, for a cadre of eggheads who hail the work as a visionary achievement. It happened in 1961, with that high-society puzzle obscura Last Year at Marienbad, and in 2006, with David Lynch’s through-the-looking-glass bore Inland Empire… Now Charlie Kaufman, the brain-tickling screenwriter of Eternal Sunshine of the ...
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... , who gently takes on Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Glieberman for his review of Synecdoche, New York – a review for which Mr. Glieberman deserves nothing short of a public pantsing. “I am resigned to belonging to a cadre of eggheads hailing Synecdoche, although I have praised many a film, like The Golden Compass, that Gleiberman dismissed as not Great Trash but the compacted variety. Naya, naya, naya! Who's the egghead now? But Owen is a terrific chap and we like each other, especially when we find ourselves enlisted in the same ...
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reverseshot.com 10/22/2008 — We know Kaufman can write; it turns out he can direct, too. More Spike Jonze than Michel Gondry, the now director handles the shifts in mood and atmospherics—from grubby naturalism to understated fantasia—with impressive facility. At times—as in a ...
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cinematical.com 9/25/2008 — Click to enlarge Synecdoche : n. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor ), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer ), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin ), the general for the ...
Trailer Watch: Synecdoche, New York
weblogs.variety.com 9/19/2008 — Here's the new trailer for screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's directing debut Synecdoche, New York, which stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton and Tilda Swinton. The movie has to be seen to be believed; ...
Synecdoche, New York: Film Review
slantmagazine.com 10/24/2008 — The artistic psyche has never been more joylessly explored than in Synecdoche, New York, the gallingly undisciplined directorial debut of revered screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. by Fernando F. Croce
New Clip of Synecdoche, New york
heyuguys.co.uk 5/12/2009 —
Total Film are very nice people indeed. They have been given an exclusive clip from Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, the narrative Kaleidoscope that is Synecdoche, New York.
Podcast listeners will know of my love and hope for this film, and like Terry Gilliam's Imaginarium of Dr ...
The Life of the Mined: On Synecdoche, New York (Part 2)
filmbrain.com 11/26/2008 — "Despite its slippery way with time and space and narrative and Mr. Kaufman’s controlled grasp of the medium, Synecdoche, New York is as much a cry from the heart as it is an assertion of creative consciousness. It’s extravagantly conceptual ...
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