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Sense of Syndoche
Hollywood Elsewhere —
[image] Mafioso (The Criterion Collection, 3.18.2008) Nino Badalamenti is a supervisor in a car manufacturing plant who hasn't taken a vacation in over two years. On his way out the door to visit his beloved childhood hometown of Sicily -- with his blonde wife and daughters -- Nino is handed a package by his boss and asked to deliver it to a powerful and influential Sicilian gangster named Don Vincenzo. Once in Sicily, Nino has a hoot seeing friends and family, but his wife has trouble fitting in and is unfairly dismissed as a snob by Nino's family. Even more worrisome, Nino finds himself entangled in an intricate web of secret mafioso ...
PRONOUNCING "SYNECDOCHE"
Filmmaker Magazine —
Variety's Mike Jones has posted this funny video about the pronunciation of Charlie Kaufman's latest, due to screen in Cannes on Friday. For the record, and from Wikipedia: Synecdoche (pronounced /sɪˈnɛkdəkɪ/) is a figure of speech in which: a term denoting a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing, or a term denoting a thing (a "whole") is used to refer to part of it, or a term denoting a specific class of thing is used to refer to a larger, more general class, or a term denoting a general class of thing is used to refer to a smaller, more specific class, or a term denoting a material is used to refer to an object ...
Making Sense of Synecdoche, New York (Sort Of)
Row Three —
Making Sense of Synecdoche, New York (Sort Of) Synecdoche, NY Movie Still I‘ve been seeing a lot of information flying around the net about Charlie Kaufman’s new film, his directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York . I’d seen a few photos and been intrigued because let’s face it, with a cast that includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Samantha Morton, Emily Watson, Michelle Williams, Dianne Wiest and Hope Davis, your bound to be doing something right. And it’s not like we’re talking about a guy with no film experience. Though this might indeed be his first time behind the director’s chair, ...
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/Film —
Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2!
Lobster Johnson created this custom Heath Ledger-version Joker Munny.
Patrick Read Johnson has found financing to complete post production on his autobiographical indie “77,” (formerly titled 5/25/77) which chronicles the director’s journeys in Hollywood with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. [THR]
William Shatner claims JJ Abrams never called him back. ...
2008 in Review: Phil Nugent's Top Ten
The Screengrab —
BEFORE I FORGET: Writer-director-star's Jacques Nolot's measured, surprisingly affecting portrait of an aging gay hustler whose friends are dying off (as he himself enters his twenty-fourth year of being HIV-positive) and who lives in fear of losing the very memories that he's become mired in. A dry-eyed yet very moving experience, this French film arrived in theaters here in late summer and attracted about as much attention as most films do when they're not in English and include plenty of footage of men in their fifties and sixties with their clothes off. ...
Two tickets for, er, Syne ... er ... that new film please
Film | guardian.co.uk —
The film Synecdoche, New York, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, opens on Friday. How should you pronounce the first word so you don't make a chump of yourself on a hot date or whatever else you're up to socially this weekend? Is it Sign-eck-dosh? Sigh-nayck-docky? You can have fun watching people on La Croisette in Cannes ...
