Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE now has a trailer!
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE now has a trailer!
Posted: 9/20/08 at 7:27pm
http://www.joblo.com/video/joblo/player.php?video=synecdochetrlr
It looks both really awesome and incredibly depressing. Hoffman looks incredible in it.
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#2re: Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE now has a trailer!
Posted: 9/20/08 at 7:40pmRemember when trailers used to give you a feel for what a movie was about?
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2re: Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE now has a trailer!
Posted: 9/21/08 at 4:53pm
Remember when Philip Seymour Hoffman didn't infect the screen? Remember when Charlie Kaufman hadn't yet started writing his bogus over-clever gimmicky crap?
For a reminder, go see THE GODFATHER and THE GODFATHER PART II. Be reminded of what real movies can be like.
Don't be fooled by the Hoffman and the Kaufman. It isn't too late.
#3re: Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE now has a trailer!
Posted: 9/21/08 at 6:42pm
I cannot wait. I'll be there opening day. Love BEING JOHN MALKOVICH. Love ADAPTATION. Adore ETERNAL SUNSHINE.
And Roscoe, films can be many things. There isn't a "right" way to do film. Movies like THE GODFATHER are one way, and THE GODFATHER is a masterpiece. But Kaufman's films and screenplays play with the medium in a different way than those films. That doesn't make them un"real." You may not like them, but, you know, just because something isn't your style or taste doesn't make it bogus or gimmicky by default...
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4re: Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE now has a trailer!
Posted: 9/21/08 at 7:19pm
Well of course, Stick. There are lots of right way to do films, and one of the right ways to do a film was found by Michel Gondry when he made the only good film yet made from a Kaufman Batch O' Gimmicks: ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, which is to BEING JOHN MALKOVICH what THE GODFATHER is to DePalama's SCARFACE.
I never said that Kaufman's scripts are bogus and gimmicky because they aren't my style or taste. I think that Kaufman's scripts are bogus and gimmicky because they are, well, bogus and gimmicky. There are lots of things that aren't my style or taste that aren't bogus or gimmicky.
#5re: Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE now has a trailer!
Posted: 9/21/08 at 10:13pmI saw it a few weeks ago at the Toronto Film Festival. It's nearly unwatchable. I've never wanted to walk out of a movie so badly in my life. And I say this as a fan of Charlie Kaufman's other works. The story dissolves about halfway through the movie and it just becomes things happening. I think I understand what they were going for. I also hated it.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#6re: Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE now has a trailer!
Posted: 9/22/08 at 1:44amI'll see it anyway. It looks too interesting to pass up.
#7re: Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE now has a trailer!
Posted: 9/22/08 at 2:02amI wouldn't discourage you from seeing it. I'm glad I saw it, if only to understand what a failure it is.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#9re: Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE now has a trailer!
Posted: 9/22/08 at 2:05amI have a feeling I'll probably end up loving it. I love crazy movies like this. I'm even one of eight people who liked SOUTHLAND TALES!
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#10re: Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE now has a trailer!
Posted: 10/24/08 at 9:34pmIt's playing in one theater in New York today! Check it out, NYers!!!!
#11re: Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE now has a trailer!
Posted: 10/25/08 at 3:25pm
Seeing it this weekend!
I love Kaufman's movies; I thought ADAPTATION was terrific, with an amazing cast. ETERNAL SUNSHINE is pretty good, but makes me so sad I can hardly watch it, and MALKOVICH contains what I think will be one of the great modern performances in Catherine Keener's work.
I have no problem with over-clever films; it's the under-clever ones I hate.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#12re: Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE now has a trailer!
Posted: 10/25/08 at 8:42pmI would easily put MALKOVICH on the list of the top 10 funniest films I've ever seen.
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