“Here’s what I think theater is: It’s the beginning of thought. It’s the truth not yet spoken. It’s what a man feels after he’s been clocked in the jaw. It’s love, in all its messiness. And I want all ...

The first poster for Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York has debuted courtesy of our good friends over at IONCINEMA.com. You've probably heard mention of this film recently given it debuted at the ...

Here's something that should interest most hardcore cinephiles. The first trailer for Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut titled Synecdoche, New York has debuted on Yahoo. The film stars Philip ...

If movie awards were given out for ambition, Charlie Kaufman’s insanely twisted “Synecdoche, New York” would sweep every prize this year. We wouldn’t expect anything less from the screenwriter of ...

indieWIRE: You say that you are moving in a more personal direction with “Synecdoche, New York.” I think of “Synecdoche” as a film by someone not so young. It’s mature in that sense, moving toward ...

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 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.

I think you have to see Charlie Kaufman‘s “Synecdoche, New York” twice. I watched it the first time and knew it was a great film and that I had not mastered it. The second time because I needed to.

A portrait of the artist as a dying man: Synecdoche, word-geek speak for using a part to represent the whole or vice-versa, begins with theater director Caden Cotard (Hoffman) well into middle age, ...

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.

Synecdoche, New York is comically difficult to summarize (and pronounce), but here goes: Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who may or may not be a hypochondriac, is a small-time theater director ...