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 ...

Like an anxious artist afraid he may not get another chance, Charlie Kaufman tries to Say It All in his directorial debut, “Synecdoche, New York.” A wildly ambitious and gravely serious contemplation ...

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Charlie Kaufman’s wry, inventive onscreen explorations of the authentic/inauthentic self — from “Being John Malkovich” through “Adaptation” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” — have defied ...

There’s something appealingly anti-psychological about Charlie Kaufman. As a Jew who explores the inner lives of anxious neurotic depressive solipsists, he could be expected to build his works around ...