There’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 ...

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 ...

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This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Charlie Kaufman, some have said, is a literary writer who just ...

Genre: Surrealist Drama With Comedy: Director: Charlie Kaufman: ... Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is either a work of great profundity or of notable pretension—or possibly both.

But “Synecdoche, New York” is beautiful, and I don’t just mean the title. A synecdoche, for those unversed in the poetic tropes, ...

Synecdoche, New York is long, but not long-winded. Kaufman lingers on shots and repeats scenes and dialogue with purpose. It's hard to imagine trimming back the screenplay without compromising a ...

With “Synecdoche, New York,” screenwriter Kaufman pivoted to directing for the first time, and proved he was no one-off behind the camera again in 2015 with the animated “Anomalisa.” ...