Now, in Synecdoche, New York, his madly overambitious directorial debut, Kaufman contrives to display even more permutations of the self, on the way to the self’s dissolution.

From Charlie Kaufman, comes a visual and philosophic adventure, SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK. As he did with his groundbreaking scripts for "Being John Malkovich", "Adaptation", and "Eternal Sunshine of ...

Charlie Kaufman, some have said, is a literary writer who just happens to have a job writing screenplays. And now, directing them -- his directorial debut, ‘Synechdoche, New York,’ is open in ...

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 ...

Synecdoche, New York has been called a “love it or hate it” proposition. That’s probably true. There are many people who will despise the film and find it incomprehensible garbage.

Welcome to “Synecdoche, New York,” pop. everybody. Synecdoche (seh-NEC-duh-key), if you don’t have your Webster’s handy, is a figure of speech in which a specific thing represents a class ...

” Synecdoche, New York,” screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s wildly ambitious directorial debut, recalls the Jorge Luis Borges story in which the imperial cartographers make a map of the empire ...

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It almost feels inappropriate to boil a film of this depth down to a thousand words or so – or even to review it in traditional terms; Synecdoche, New York is mesmerising in its scope, viewing ...

In Brief: Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York (2008) represents not just one of the actor's most accomplished performances but one of his most ...

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