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Feb 05, 2009 · Directed by Charlie Kaufman. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener. A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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Oct 13, 2008 · Synecdoche is a reminder of what a dead-end brilliant screenwriting conceits can be when left by themselves on the screen. Anyone watching Being John Malkovich, Adaptation. and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind can see that Kaufman was their true auteur; anybody watching his first solo effort can see how beneficial the presence of a Spike Jonze or a Michel Gondry was to those pictures.
Oct 21, 2018 · Synecdoche, New York is as wrenching a movie as one can ever watch, but there’s something exhilarating about its endlessly expanding ambition. From the beginning, Caden Cotard (the late Philip...
Synecdoche, New York is a two hour long, 2008 film from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, and was his first attempt at directing films. It is a wildly overpraised and almost as wildly derided film.
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Oct 24, 2008 · Synecdoche, New York is the kind of movie that only exceedingly talented filmmakers can get away with, and usually only once in a career. Charlie Kaufman is that talented, but he picked a dangerously early point to cash in his free pass.
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Apr 03, 2019 · Director: Charlie Kaufman Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams Year: 2008 Charlie Kaufman is known for his writing (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), but he also directed one and only one of his screenplays (not including the animated Anomalisa), and that of course is the darkly brilliant ...
A ‘synecdoche’ occurs when part of something is used to represent the whole; and as Caden’s play, housed in a massive Brooklyn warehouse, swells to encompass a cast of hundreds and several city blocks, its director - and the audience - becomes increasingly unable to separate reality and fantasy.
‘When are we going to get an audience in here,’ asks a set assistant in Charlie Kaufman-penned Synecdoche, New York, ‘it’s been 17 years.’ And so time again tries to catch up with Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in this intriguing film. From the writer of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich, Synecdoche, New York is another film concerned with twisting ...
With “Synecdoche, New York,” Charlie Kaufman’s imaginative idiosyncrasies calcify into tiresome clichés. A sprawling elegy to death and the art of navel-gazing, Kaufman’s directorial debut is a piece of performance art that drips with intangible meaning, but lacks any sort...