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 Kaufman namechecks Kafka to prepare us for ...
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! ...
movies.nytimes.com - 10/24/2008
facebook.com - 10/16/2008
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Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is
mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban...
blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele (Catherine Keener) has left him to pursue ...
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SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
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Interview. Charlie Kaufman.
GreenCine Daily —
... I feel is honest from my vantage point. That's the kind of decent thing to do in the world. To give people what you think is honest because, otherwise, you might as well be selling soap. In fact, you are selling soap! I don't want to do that. I'm not in that business. I've got to just jump into something and make it about what I'm interested in again. But there's pause. There's always pause at this point."
Yes, that would be Charlie Kaufman. In conversation with Jonathan Marlow. And so, this'll also be an entry on Synecdoche, New York, and ...
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK—The Evening Class Interview With Charlie Kaufman
The Evening Class —
... 's titular pun on Schenectady, New York arrived fraught with the hazard of mispronunciation (and just when I finally got Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to trill liltingly off my tongue). While waiting for Jonathan Marlow to finish up his interview with Kaufman for Greencine, I practiced ...
You say Synecdoche, I say.....
Mostly Movies —
Charlie Kaufman: (Greencine) Specifically, I find the act of writing or creating another world intriguing and I try to analyze why. To a certain extent, it's part of the process of being alive in the world. We do that constantly. It's not just for writers or filmmakers or theater directors. We constantly take this information and organize it. We constantly tell stories about ourselves. We put our lives in the context of a story, which it really isn't. It's really a subjective, human thing to do - to tell stories about the people that we meet and how we ...
Screenwriting News & Links! 10/26/08
Mystery Man on Film —
... you don't know exactly why. As I'm writing, though, I start to see connections, and themes I didn't see, and that sparks other things. So then I go back and rewrite things or alter them. It's a combination of intuition and a lot of finessing. It becomes a combination of the rational and the irrational. I always go in circles. I have OCD to a certain extent, so I tend to do a lot of circular thinking. I think I do have OCD a bit. More interviews with GreenCine, FilmCatcher ...
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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.
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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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filmbrain.com 11/16/2008 — Why couldn't the world that concerns us be a fiction? And if somebody asked, "but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?" -- couldn't one answer simply, why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too? ...
Synecdoche, New York :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
rogerebert.suntimes.com 11/25/2008 — / / / November 5, 2008 by Roger Ebert I think you have to see Charlie Kaufman 's "Synecdoche, New York" twice. I watched it the first time and knew it was a great film and that I had not mastered it. The second time because I needed to. The third time ...
Exclusive: 'Synecdoche, New York' Poster Premiere
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 ...
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 .
While it is often cliché to quote Shakespeare, ...
Synecdoche, New York - Review
movieblog.ugo.com 10/24/2008 — A note is struck in Synecdoche, New York - perhaps the one that commences Jon Brion and Deanna Storey’s smoky-’n’-sad after-hours ballad “Little Person,” which closes writer/director Charlie Kaufman’s latest dive into the gaping, unforgiving maw of ...
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 Review, Toronto 2008
blog.spout.com 10/24/2008 — 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 ...
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