nymag.com - 10/24/2008
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T here s something appealingly anti-psychological about Charlie Kaufman. As a Jew who explores the inner lives of anxious neurotic depressive solipsists, he could be expected to build his works around repressed traumas and cathartic revelations: very Freudian, very twentieth century. But Kaufman ...
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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greencine.com —
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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CHARLIE'S DEMONS
Antagony & Ecstasy —
... many of Lynch's films, uses its hopelessly confusing plot as a Trojan horse to play around with themes while you're not looking. Synecdoche , however surreal and fantastic its story, is utterly clear about it's meaning: it is unabashedly about the fear of mortality, specifically Charlie Kaufman's fear of mortality, for it is equally obvious that Caden is nothing but a stand-in for the writer-director. I know that critics aren't supposed to admit that they read other critics, but Dave Edelstein's words on this point are too perfect for me to try bettering them: "This epic ...
Screenwriting News & Links! 10/26/08
Mystery Man on Film —
... David Edelstein: This epic dream play with its leaps through time and space, its characters and shadow characters, poses a momentous question: Uh... well... I'm not sure what question the movie is posing. The answer, though, is definitely 'Death…'" The best thing to do with one's spatial-temporal bewilderment is get over it and go with the free-associational flow: Synecdoche cannot be diagrammed. ...
OFF THE CUFF ON SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, THE MOVIE AND THE DVD
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule —
... Anthony Bregman were looking more for a respectable exegesis of what Kaufman was trying to do as a writer-director, and for fans of the movie and of film criticism I think you’d have to say they succeeded. But I think the scope of the discussion could have been fruitfully expanded, without turning the whole enterprise into a filmhead’s (or Filmbrain’s) McLaughlin Report, had someone been invited who could have eloquently expressed the ways in which the movie doesn’t work. David Edelstein or ...
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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 ...
Best Screenplay, 2008
opalfilms.blogspot.com 2/17/2009 — Synecdoche, New York - Charlie Kaufman (116 points/17 votes) "The screenplay for Synecdoche, New York by Charlie Kaufman is an almost impossibly ambitious, spaciously sprawling and cerebrally impassioned piece of work. What may most ...
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fataculture.wordpress.com 11/27/2008 — As a lover of cinema, venturing out to witness what you later consider to be a work of art unfold before your eyes without encumbrance, a dense but intimate puzzle in this case, and have it ruminate in your subconscious where your understanding of it ...
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 ...
FILM: ALTERED EGO
nypress.com 10/24/2008 — Synecdoche, New York
Directed by Charlie Kaufman
Running Time: 124 min.
One has not truly suffered as a moviegoer until seeing Philip Seymour Hoffman perform a seizure in Synecdoche, New York. This freak-out has nothing to do with art and more ...
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