blog.spout.com - 10/24/2008
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There’s a bit in The Anatomy of Melancholy about the “madness” common to critics, artists, and philosophers, and by extension anyone who remains so lost in thought or creative action that they’re rarely actually fully present in life. “Is not he mad that draws ...
observer.com - 10/22/2008
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observer.com —
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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In Other Blogs: Synecdoche-mania
The Screengrab —
... “Some of Synecdoche’s detractors insist that the film is impossibly convoluted,” writes Karina Longworth at Spoutblog. “It’s not, but a first viewing can be mostly devoted to figuring out the specifics of space and time. Kaufman often jumps years ahead in the space of a cut, but this is almost always directly referenced in the script after the fact. If anything, this continual confirmation would seem like a flaw in the script, a transparent funneling of exposition into dialogue, if Caden’s inability to grasp or cope with the unstoppable march of ...
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Mystery Man on Film —
... Karina Longworth: The film "is impeccably acted, inventively designed, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, and often devastatingly sad... It was also still such a mystery to me after two viewings that I found it hard to trust my own vocabulary to describe what the experience of watching it is actually like. But [in ...
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Is Kaufman's Synecdoche New York a Rip Off of Fellini's 8½?
firstshowing.net 5/5/2009 —
"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts." -William Shakespeare, from As You Like It .
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