Landmark Renaissance Place Cinema
1850 Second St, Highland Park
847.258.7282
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Synecdoche, New York, Courtesy Nike Sportswear
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Nov 7, 2008 – Jan 1, 2009
Daily
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- Price
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$9.75
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Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich), but it is by now undeniable that he has singlehandedly launched the post-meta movie. In his latest, and his first directorial effort, Kaufman takes this genre to its logical extent. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as the perfect anti-hero, a bumbling Kaufman stand-in who stumbles into a dreamworld where he stages an intricate play-within-a-play. Synecdoche, New York marks the first time that Kaufman has tackled his existentalist questions with the scope (and lack of snark) that they truly deserve.
