With “Synecdoche, New York,” the writer of the trippy “Being John Malkovich” takes us not inside the body of an eccentric actor, but inside his own head for a couple of hours. Still, even fans of the ...

Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is a film with a plethora of preoccupationssickness, death, marriage, cleanliness, gender, depression, the illusory nature of time, to name a fewand it works ...

Some of you will be looking toward me to explain it for you. I will try. If, when I'm finished, you still don't understand a single damned thing about it, welcome to the club. Because neither do I.

Charlie Kaufman's brain-bending directorial debut is one of the great modern American films. All of this and so much more, the lives and loves and surrealist comic interludes and dramaturgical ...

In the signature Charlie Kaufman-scripted comedy “Being John Malkovich,” viewers were invited to feel what it’s like to be you-know-who. In “Synecdoche, New York,” we are invited, I believe, to be ...

Synecdoche, New York: Black comedy. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener and Emily Watson. Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. (R. 124 minutes. At ...

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 ...

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton and Tilda Swinton are in negotiations to star in Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, "Synecdoche, New York." Indie ...

Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut 'Synecdoche, New York' was just more than four hours long. An edit to a two-hour, four-minute version, unveiled at the Festival de Cannes, received a five-minute ...

In the first half of Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York,” a writer works through his greatest fears; in the second half, a writer writes about his greatest fears, and it’s not the same thing.