Comments on: Synecdoche, New York

By: Hugo » Movie Monster

Hugo » Movie Monster — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:53:55 +0000

[...] Méliès, in one scene, avers; and then his life, in a movie, ends happily.) Usually, as in Synecdoche, New York, this is writ large. But Scorsese’s caméra stylo writes in invisible ink. It’s a kind of [...]

By: Certified Copy » Movie Monster

Certified Copy » Movie Monster — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:20:09 +0000

[...] is nonchalantly hyperconscious, a rare and happy philter. Watching Certified Copy is like taking Charlie Kaufman with a chill pill; it’s more blunt than Marienbad, but also more obscure. Because the stars’ [...]

By: Inception » Movie Monster

Inception » Movie Monster — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:15:23 +0000

[...] away from being an “intellectual overload”—unless you’re prone to headaches. (A mess like Synecdoche, New York may have been more worthy of that mantle, and that’s precisely because it was [...]

By: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus » Movie Monster

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus » Movie Monster — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:22:20 +0000

[...] bears any enmity for the real world; it seems instinctive rather than a conscious rebellion. (In Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman seemed to betray a similar predilection, but rebuked himself for it.) Aside from [...]

By: Where the Wild Things Are » Movie Monster

Where the Wild Things Are » Movie Monster — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:16:17 +0000

[...] the fantastic and the extreme” is a touch too close to banal here; his deadpan was key in his Charlie Kaufman collaborations (in his other two features, he rejoiced in Being John Malkovich and the throes of [...]

By: Cold Souls » Movie Monster

Cold Souls » Movie Monster — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:18:38 +0000

[...] with a tricky tachycardia. Jumpy directors like Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry match his pulse. In Synecdoche, New York, however, writer-director Kaufman was victimized by his own volubility, and his ideas went kaboom. [...]

By: The Critic’s Criticism of His Critics » Movie Monster

The Critic’s Criticism of His Critics » Movie Monster — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:24:32 +0000

[...] studio turd like The Hangover—but films such as There Will be Blood or The Wrestler or Synecdoche, New York or Tarsem’s short-lived The Fall were much more interesting than The Hangover, and thus, to me, [...]