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 ...

Kaufman's directorial debut and his most challenging, infuriating puzzle to date. It's the cinematic equivalent of something like the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus" or "Strawberry Fields Forever": The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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!

Click to viewSynecdoche, New York, the latest film from Charlie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” Kaufman, creates its own brand of magical realism crossed with science fiction. The tale of a ...

Synecdoche, New York opens with a scene of finely observed domestic squalor. A suburban home rouses itself for the day. A middle-aged man declares “I don’t feel well” before sitting down to breakfast.

All the world’s a stage, literally, for Caden Cotard. A small-time theater director in Schenectady, N.Y., he becomes the unlikely recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant and spends the windfall on a ...

Synecdoche, New York has been called a “love it or hate it” proposition. That’s probably true. There are many people who will despise the film and find it incomprehensible garbage. Others will feel ...