With “Synecdoche, New York,” the writer of the trippy “Being John Malkovich” takes us not inside the body of an eccentric actor, but inside his own head for a couple of hours. Still, even fans of the ...

Some of you will be looking toward me to explain it for you. I will try. If, when I'm finished, you still don't understand a single damned thing about it, welcome to the club. Because neither do I.

To Caden Cotard, all the world's a stage, and the men and women, merely players. "Synecdoche, New York" is perhaps the most literal interpretation of Shakespeare's metaphorical observation we're ...

Synecdoche, New York: Black comedy. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener and Emily Watson. Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. (R. 124 minutes. At ...

Charlie Kaufman is arguably the most creative screenwriter working today. Actually, there's no argument. He is. After churning out mind-bending scripts like "Being John Malkovich" (one of the best ...

Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s 2008 directorial debut Synecdoche, New York follows a marital conflict between two artists living in the ...

Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut 'Synecdoche, New York' was just more than four hours long. An edit to a two-hour, four-minute version, unveiled at the Festival de Cannes, received a five-minute ...

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton and Tilda Swinton are in negotiations to star in Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, "Synecdoche, New York." Indie ...

In the first half of Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York,” a writer works through his greatest fears; in the second half, a writer writes about his greatest fears, and it’s not the same thing.

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A portrait of the artist as a dying man: Synecdoche, word-geek speak for using a part to represent the whole or vice-versa, begins with theater director Caden Cotard (Hoffman) well into middle age, ...