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Synecdoche, New York
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- Synecdoche, New York
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 Malkovitch), 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.
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$11
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Oct 24, 2008 – Feb 9, 2009
Daily
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Landmark Sunshine
143 E Houston St
212.330.8182
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I just saw this yesterday. The film includes some very strong visual metaphors for the problems of storytelling that fascinate Kaufman -- Im thinkng in particular about the metastasizing complex of interior spaces filled with players and problems that perpetually fail to meet Caden Cotard's directorial vision -- but this is oops character limit up!
this should be amazing. love charlie kaufman - so psychologically interesting and emotionally touching, who's with me? think the reviews have been mixed, though.
This movie dresses up cliches about the meaninglessness of existence, the impossibility of relationships, and the inevitability of death within the hip clothes of indie aesthetics, anti-heroes, and PSH. What starts as a playful take on mortality winds up as self-referential drivel that loses all momentum when the wife leaves and the "play" begins.