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Film DVD Review

Synecdoche New York

by Evan Sawdey

[20.Mar.09] :. Consumed with existential dread, this film captures the feeling of near-death angst remarkably well, enough to the point where it's not Caden that's feeling it -- it's the audience.

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Kaufman’s ‘Synecdoche’ Is Complex, Compelling Quirk

by Bill Gibron

[18.Dec.08] :. Love isn’t easy. Neither is life. Both bring us so much sorrow and pain that it’s weird how obsessive we are over each one. We covet them both, loathe the times when we are without them,...

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Charlie Kaufman as director: On the whole, he’s up to the parts

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[6.Nov.08] :. TORONTO - “I don’t need to be mentored,” says Charlie Kaufman, a touch indignant, when asked if Spike Jonze helped out with advice on “Synecdoche, New York.” The film,...

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Film Review

Synecdoche, New York

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Oct.08] :. Much like protagonists in previous Charlie Kaufman scripts, Caden is an artist in search of his art.

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Column: The Screener

Identities in Flux

by Chris Barsanti

[24.Oct.08] :. Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is performance art as civilization-annihilating Godzilla, whereas Eastwood's Changeling is a film that wins the stranger than fiction category, hands-down.

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