Three Video Clips from Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York

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Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche Promises To Be Very Kaufmany
Published 5/20/2008 at Videogum
Three clips from Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, you guys: (Cannes via Slash Film) As I explained before, Synecdoche is about a down on his luck theater director played by Philip Seymour Hoffman who, after his wife leaves him and he's diagnosed with an illness that progressively shuts down his autonomic functions, moves his theater company from Schenectady to a giant warehouse in New York, where he proceeds to create a miniaturized version of the city and stage a "play" of regular life. As if that weren't already Kaufman-y ...

The Dailies: May 20, 2008
Published 5/20/2008 by Shawn Adler at MTV Movies Blog
... - Three brief videos pop up online from Charlie Kaufman’s latest mind fark, “Synecdoche, New York.” (/film) ...

Falling Apart In First Clips From Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York [Synecdoche New York]
Published 5/20/2008 by Charlie Jane Anders at io9
... Early summaries of the film suggested that Hoffman's character is staging a huge play in a warehouse (as seen in the first clip) and the warehouse slowly transforms into a scale model of New York, the city it's in. In other words, it becomes a synecdoche for New York itself. And meanwhile, Hoffman's mystery scifi disease becomes a metaphor for parts of the whole shutting down or becoming unreliable -- as Hoffman himself becomes unreliable. Oh, and there are cute tattoos. [Slashfilm] ...

Synecdoche, New York clips
Published 5/20/2008 by CMAC at Box Office Psychics
... skin), premieres his directorial deboot Synecdoche, New York this week at something called the “Cannes Film Festival” (I dunno either, but I guess it happens in Europe someplace). Film stars Philip “that molester looking guy” Seymour Hoffman and is about a bunch of Woody Allen-esque elitist artfag bullshit which will surely be declared a staggering work of genius by people who own iPhones. Anyway, our friends at /Film have clips from the film up on their internet site, so check ‘em out ...

Cannes: Synecdoche New York Clips
Published 5/21/2008 by Variety.com * at Thompson On Hollywood
... A few Cannes diehards left in town will be able to see the new Charlie Kaufman film Synecdoche, New York on Friday. Slash has posted three clips. ...

Making Sense of Synecdoche, New York (Sort Of)
Published 5/21/2008 at Row Three
... newcomer to Hollywood having written the fantastic scrips for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , Confessions of a Dangerous Mind , Adaptation. and Being John Malkovich . So here was have a great cast with a talented writer, some interesting pictures and more interesting clips that have recently hit the web. As a whole, it all sounds great but I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this story. After reading various synopsis, I found this one, care of Peter over at /Film to be the most complete and the one that confused me the least. Peter gives us this: ...

Me and You and Everyone We Link
Published 5/22/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (NATHANIEL R) at Film Experience Blog
... Loves Stu remakes some classics. Funny stuff Big Screen Little Screen feeds us info on the new Miranda July project Satisfaction. I can't wait... )==( Too Many Projects hosting a Production Design blog-a-thon. Right at this very moment. Get decoratin' Film Brain "Brains Not Required (or: Whither Subtlety)" FOG has photos of the Met's Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy exhibit /Film video clips from Synechdoche, New York Bubblegum ...