Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Release date : TBA 2009 Synopsis : In the midst of an existential crisis, a famous American actor stumbles upon a Soul Storage, a private lab offering ...
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Today's Recall the Gold looks back at what may be the most controversial race in the whole series, save for the first one, which was the 1998 Best Picture upset of Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan. It's the...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Interviewing Charlie Kaufman is like sprinkling salt on a slug. Each question seems to lay a psychic burden on the 49-year-old writer-director's soul; answers emerge painstakingly from some dark well within. Often, he'll scrunch his eyes tightly shut as he speaks, as though trying to read his thoughts on the back of his eyelids.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Every man is the star of his own drama. Such is the insight gleaned by Tom Stoppard's Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern and by Charlie Kaufman's Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the glum and hypochondriacal theater director who is stage center in Synecdoche, New York.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Film News: Deal includes homevideo, TV rights to 'Informers' -- Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has acquired domestic homevid and TV distrib rights to the release slate of Senator U.S. beginning with Bret Easton Ellis' "The Informers."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Movie review: Charlie Kaufman creates a poetic dream world around Philip Seymour Hoffman in the veteran screenwriter's directorial debut.
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
In filmmaking, a "hot set" is one on which filming is continuing and nothing should be touched. In Charlie Kaufman's new movie, Synecdoche, New York, the term takes on a whole new meaning: In once scene, a house burns perpetually while actors work around the flames.
Defamer (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your fail-safe weekly guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or potentially doomed at the movies. Today brings us another oversaturated batch of fall releases...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
To say that Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York" is one of the best films of the year is a pathetic response to its soaring ambition.
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak.
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
Synecdoche, New York ." title="What happened, Hoffman? Philip Seymour Hoffman in Synecdoche, New York ." /> Synecdoche, New York Running Time 124 minutes Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Emily Watson, Samantha Morton, Dianne Wiest The word of the week is contrast. Decorating the top of the cake: a new Clint Eastwood. At the...
Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
IFP announced today the nominees for this year's 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. Lance Hammer's self-distributed first feature Ballast received the most nominations with four, including for Best Feature and Breakthrough Director. The awards will be handed out on Tuesday, Dec. 2 at New York City's Cipriani Wall Street. Full list of nominees are below. Best Feature Ballast
In Theaters This Week (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dianne Wiest, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Emily Watson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Tom Noonan
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Hoffman is good, as are the women whose roles get a chance to stand out amid the narrative corkscrews-- Morton, Leigh, and Emily Watson, briefly, as Hazel's double. And Charlie Kaufman is still a national treasure-- seriously--- and anything he produces is worth attention, for the opportunity to spend some time in his marvelous, tricky brain. But Synecdoche, New York , with its pretentious title and...
Latest Movie Trailers (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship...
