Three Clips from Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York
One of the 2008 movies that I’m most looking forward to is premiering at Cannes this week, and that would be Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York. We haven’t really been hearing much about it so far and in fact, I’m not even sure if it has a U.S. distributor yet, much less a release date. However, thanks to the Cannes website, there are three intriguing clips from the film now available online for your consumption and discussion.
It’s often difficult to fully grasp a Charlie Kaufman film even after you’ve seen the whole thing, so just watching a few short clips from this movie certainly leaves you with more questions than answers. Still, at the very least we get a glimpse of Philip Seymour Hoffman as the theatre director Caden Cotard (including an old version of the character in the third clip). From what I understand the movie is about this guy who is writing a play about everyday life, but slowly the play becomes reality for him. Either way it sounds like another one of Kaufman’s self-referential and multi-layered stories, with the difference being that he’s also behind the camera this time, in addition to writing the script. Check out the clips via the link below and see what you think.
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Comments (4)
As a sucker for a Charlie Kaufman movie, I was very intrigued by Synecdoche, New York. But after seeing the, very long, imdb description I find myself not being as interested anymore. It doesn’t seem to be as trippy as his other films. But then again I remember reading something about a Kaufman movie about a man who ages backwards and literally “grows apart” from the woman he loves. Maybe this will be incorporated somehow. However, not judging by the imdb plot synopsis.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383028/plotsummary
Posted by Matt on May 20th, 2008This looks like it’ll be good old fashioned fun.
Posted by Ian on May 20th, 2008Wow those clips say so much with out saying anything at all. WTF indeed. You’ve got my 10 bucks Mr Kaufman
Posted by theman on May 20th, 2008This movie is literally blowing my mind because of the idea of building a life sized model of new york.
Posted by Drew on May 20th, 2008Leave a Reply