The very title Synecdoche, New York is off-putting. Like a genius lunatic wandering the streets, it seems to scream, “I’m weird and difficult! Stay away!” But I say, it’s weird and wonderful. Go!

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 ...

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The motif of Charlie Kaufman’s stories usually involves a depressed man striving to tackle an epic example of his personal and professional worth. It’s the puppeteer in Being John Malkovich, the ...

If you traveled the length of John Malkovich’s medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett’s Krapp recorded his last tape, and walked through the adjoining door of the interstellar ...

The beloved screenwriter and director revisited his 2008 directorial debut, 'Synecdoche, New York.' By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer “I didn’t want to do genre horror movie. I wanted to do something ...

Philip Seymour Hoffman, left, Michelle Williams and Tom Noonan in 'Syndecdoche, New York.' It's a delicate line that screenwriter Charlie Kaufman walks. In possession of a wonderfully weird brain, he ...

Here are the first few clips from Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut Synecdoche, New York. Kaufman, of course, wrote science fiction classics Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and The Eternal Sunshine ...

I've literally seen ADAPTATION over 20 times, which is second only to THE BIG LEBOWSKI on my 'total watches list'. It is, for me, a perfect film. It's about the art and craft of screenwriting, about ...

It’s hard to get a film like “How to Shoot a Ghost,” the new short film directed by Charlie Kaufman and written by the Greek-Canadian Eva H.D., noticed at a festival like Venice. It’s a short, after ...

Emmy-winning animator Drew Hodges worked on the 2015 stop-motion film, which became the first-ever R-rated Best Animated ...