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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The Academy Award Winning Screenwriter Dazzled Critics After Its
Competition Screening In Cannes With His Ambitious, Wholly Original
Portrait of A Creative Mind In Crisis
Film Stars A Distinguished List of Actors, Academy Award Winner Philip
Seymour Hoffman, and Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams and Samantha
Morton.
NEW YORK, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Pictures Classics confirmed
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Film News: Studio nabs Charlie Kaufman's directing debut -- Sony Classics will handle the U.S. release of Charlie Kaufman’s directing debut “Synecdoche, New York,” the company confirmed Thursday.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Sony Pictures Classics has bought Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut, “Synecdoche, New York,” for an undisclosed amount.
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Defamer (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
· Sony Pictures Classics is close to picking up Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman's sprawling directorial debut spanning 40 years in the life of a guy who tries to mount the greatest play of all...
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The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz B (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By Steven Zeitchik Our early, eager, enthusiastic response in Cannes to "Synecdoche, NY," Charlie Kaufman's dementedly brilliant and heartbreaking directorial debut, is apparently shared by those arbiters of arthouse cool, Sony Pictures Classics. The unit, which along with IFC has...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony Pictures Classics is in advanced negotiations to acquire "Synecdoche, New York," writer Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut and one of the more buzzed-about titles from this year's Cannes Film Festival.
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High-Def Digest: Blu-ray Disc News (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
If you could willingly erase the memory of a painful relationship from your consciousness, would you? Director Michel Gondry and writer Charlie Kaufman ask this exact question with 'Eternal Sunshine of...
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Screen Play (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
On the weekend Screen Play finally caught a film I've been wanting to see for a while - Will Ferrell's Stranger than Fiction. The flick wasn't of Charlie Kaufman quality, but Dustin Hoffman's assertion that most literature is either...
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All Men Are Liars (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
At the start of the Charlie Kaufman penned film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind there's a scene where the hero, Chuck Barris, talks to himself in his dingy motel room. "When you're young," he says "your potential is infinite....
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Defamer (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
newVideoPlayer("pitchseth_def.flv", 506, 423,""); If Charlie Kaufman were approached to reignite the long-stalled career of Belgian action hero and gameshow-erection-haver Jean-Claude Van Damme, it...
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The Rawking Refuses to Stop! (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Busy fella, ol' Jon Brion . The man behind the soundtrack for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is manning the orchestral boards for another Charlie Kaufman movie, Synecdoche, New York . The film, the screenwrit er's directorial debut, is about Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a playwright having a bit of an existential crisis. There's enough of Brion's score in the clips below to whet my appetite, but...
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ticklebooth (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Ambitious series. Kinda Wes Anderson, kinda Charlie Kaufman. Feels like it is being pulled in many directions. Nevertheless, the story and cinematography are wonderfully engaging. Take Me back Website (where you can watch all 10 episodes) - via Andy.
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The blog Film (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
The writer of Being John Malkovich makes his debut as a director with Synecdoche, New York. The blogs are ablaze with anticipation - but I'm just not excited...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Charlie Kaufman is notorious for challenging audiences with his brain-bending screenplays; now the screenwriter 's directorial debut, Synecdoche, NY , faces a challenge even getting to audiences. The film concerns a playwright ( Philip Seymour Hoffman ) who uses a grant in order to stage a life-size re-enactment of his life within a massive hangar. Our own James Rocchi referred to the film as "a sprawling,...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The original cut of Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut "Synecdoche, New York" was just more than four hours long, and after a half-sized version was unveiled at the recent Cannes Film Festival to a five-minute standing ovation, a viewer could understand why.
