Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s 2008 directorial debut Synecdoche, New York follows a marital conflict between two artists living in the ...

Kaufman, 66, reinvigorated Hollywood at the turn of the millennium with a series of surreal, hilarious and deeply philosophical screenplays for films like Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The original cut of Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut "Synecdoche, New York" was just more than four hours long, and after a half-sized version was unveiled at the ...

There will be no more polarizing film released in 2008 than Synecdoche, New York, the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter and mind-fucker Charlie Kaufman, heretofore known as author of ...

Like an anxious artist afraid he may not get another chance, Charlie Kaufman tries to Say It All in his directorial debut, “Synecdoche, New York.” A wildly ambitious and gravely serious contemplation ...

In his 2002 film “Adaptation.” Charlie Kaufman (Nicholas Cage) questions the script guru Robert McKee (Brian Keith) about his prescriptive approach to screenwriting, asking how his principles of story ...

Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dianne Wiest, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Emily Watson and Jennifer Jason Leigh B All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely ...

A queasy passage through one man’s warped perspective, the film rests on Hoffman’s sad-sack sincerity to justify and motivate its dream logic of hyperbole and deadpan implausibility. The latest ...

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