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**Shadowhunter** · 12-27-2008, 12:32 AM

Thanks for the links.

**Lazy** · 12-30-2008, 01:56 PM

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Big-Screen's Best
CityBeat film writers reveal their favorites of 2008

Steven Rosen

9. Synecdoche, New York: I don’t fully get it, either — maybe it’s just a really contemporary adaptation of Our Town — but director/writer Charlie Kaufman gets wonderful performances out of his cast, especially Philip Seymour Hoffman as the stage director, and the fantastical set inside the old hangar is visionary.

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Synecdoche, New York: With Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman takes control of his own narrative destiny and leads audiences down the rabbit hole into his ever-inwardly spiraling mind. There are many tangents to explore in this messy, multi-layered world of ideas, but the romantic element touches the rawest nerve. Sometimes love and passion can only be expressed intellectually, and nobody knows this better than Kaufman.

Big-Screen's Best

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10 fantastic films for 2009

Synecdoche, New York

Si-NEK-duh-kee, if you're wondering. World's-most-talented screenwriter Charlie Kaufman takes his turn in the director's chair for this typically brainiac conceit about a theatre director (Philip Seymour Hoffman) attempting to build a life-size replica of New York City in a warehouse. Somewhere in New York City, obviously. Apart from anything else it's the supporting actress feast of the year – Catherine Keener, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Emily Watson, Samantha Morton, Hope Davis, Michelle Williams, Dianne Wiest.

10 fantastic films for 2009 - Telegraph

Art imitates life and vice versa in 'Synecdoche, New York' | pressconnects.com | Press & Sun-Bulletin

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Year in movies
Screen scene

3. "Synecdoche, New York"

For his directing debut, Charlie Kaufman might not have intentionally aimed for the most ambitious movie of 2008, but that's what he came up with. You couldn't find a more fascinating puzzle than his dizzying, beautifully cast rumination on life, art and everything.

Columbus Alive : Year in movies: Screen scene

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The Cinematical Team's Picks for the Best of 2008

07) Synecdoche, New York -- The directorial debut of Charlie Kaufman features the surreal, symbolic storytelling you'd expect from the writer of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation. Once you stop trying to analyze it all and sit back and let it wash over you, it's an incredible experience, with top performances from Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams and Dianne Wiest.

The Cinematical Team's Picks for the Best of 2008 - Cinematical

**Lazy** · 01-02-2009, 03:30 PM

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The films to watch ...

SHUTTER ISLAND (Sept 18)

In their fourth film together, Martin Scorsese directs and Leonardo DiCaprio plays a US marshal searching for a killer after she escapes from an island mental institution. It features Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer and Michelle Williams.

The films to watch ... - The Irish Times - Fri, Jan 02, 2009

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Highlights of 2009: Film

Swedish wunderkind Lukas Moodysson was once the darling of the arthouse world thanks to Together and Show Me Love. He lost his audiences with experimental fare like Container and Hole in My Heart, but his new feature Mammoth, starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Michelle Williams, is his first in English. Already selected for Berlin, it looks set to win back his old fans.

Highlights of 2009: Film - Features, Films - The Independent

ky02121 · 01-02-2009, 03:55 PM

Thanks Lazy

**Shadowhunter** · 01-03-2009, 12:26 AM

Thanks for the news, Laura

tas182 · 01-03-2009, 04:13 AM

i am waiting for her new movie.It will be so great

**Lazy** · 01-03-2009, 01:06 PM

You're welcome

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Film featuring Pinay in Berlin festival

“Mammoth,” Swedish director Lukas Moodysson’s film with Gael Garcia Bernal, Michelle Williams and Filipina actress Marife Necesito, has been selected for main competition at the Berlin Film Festival which runs next month.

“Mammoth” is on our list of promising films of 2009. According to the film’s publicity materials, “‘Mammoth’ revolves around successful New York couple Leo (Gael) and Ellen (Michelle). Leo is the creator of a booming website while Ellen is a dedicated emergency surgeon. Their 8-year-old daughter Jackie (Sophie Nyweide) spends most of her time with her Filipino nanny Gloria (Marife). When Leo travels to Thailand on business, he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that will have dramatic consequences for everyone.”

In a press statement, Lukas said, “The film is about families … and how we behave towards children, both our own and others.” Other Filipino actors were cast in the scenes shot by Lukas in the Philippines.

‘Shutter’s Island’

The great Martin Scorsese is reunited with his muse, Leonardo DiCaprio, in “Shutter’s Island,” which is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane. Martin tells the story of two US marshals, Leonardo and Mark Ruffalo, who are summoned to a remote and barren island off to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island’s fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane.

Film featuring Pinay in Berlin festival - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

novaleigh · 01-03-2009, 06:39 PM

thanks everyone!

**Lazy** · 01-05-2009, 01:16 PM

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Barry Hertz: Top 10 movies of 2008

1. Synecdoche, New York If you’re looking for a great exercise in futility, try describing Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut in just a few sentences. The insanely ambitious feature, which follows Philip Seymour Hoffman’s theatre director as he stages the world’s most elaborate play, is a film that not only gets better on repeat viewings, it demands them. In between Kaufman’s musings on life, death and fecal matter, the screenwriter creates an entirely new and twisted reality, one in which it’s not unusual for a house to burn continually for 40 years or for children’s cartoons to feature cutesy lessons on biochemical warfare. If nothing else, the film is a triumphant feat of casting: When Emily Watson shows up as a doppelganger for Samantha Morton’s character, it’s all too easy to fall in love with Kaufman’s beyond-meta world.

Barry Hertz: Top 10 movies of 2008 - The Ampersand

Sony Bringing 'Synecdoche, New York' to Blu-ray | High-Def Digest

IloveJosh · 01-05-2009, 03:40 PM

That's great! Thanks, Laura

novaleigh · 01-07-2009, 01:54 PM

thanks

jen4ever · 01-08-2009, 10:34 AM

Thanks, Laura

**Lazy** · 01-08-2009, 01:07 PM

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Year in Preview: Welcome to the art house
2009 holds promise outside the multiplex

Then there’s the long-awaited return of prodigy Lukas Moodysson (Show Me Love, Together). His globalization-tragedy stars Michelle Williams and Gael Garcia Bernal in a New York marriage that frays when he travels to the Philippines—Mammoth should lumber onto screens late in 2009.

Vue Weekly : Edmonton's 100% Independent Weekly : Year in Preview: Welcome to the art house

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Top Ten Films of the Year

1) Synecdoche, New York
It’s the first time “and Directed” was printed in front of his name — ordinarily it’s just “Written” — and tagged to the end of “Synecdoche, New York.” Yet these titles fit together with “by Charlie Kaufman” like floorboards.

With audacious gall, Kaufman’s blend of magical realism and stagecraft yields a film that hurls itself into the bigger questions that most directors are too jaded to attempt. Exploring new narrative structures, visual styles and evidently industry vocations, it’s a visionary epic that launches with the largest ambitions and settles with the most honest.

Following the saga of a theater director transforming his life into a self-canonizing achievement (or so he hopes) on stage, “Synecdoche” soon wheels itself beyond the realism of its first 30 minutes and never quite returns. Though many critics decry its difficulty and thorny exterior, the film supremely models originality. While many other cultural achievements are continuously compacted into easy-to-understand, bite-size pieces by Sparknotes, Wikipedia and even an Arts and Entertainment section, it’s refreshing to encounter a film too ambitious to compact any further.

UCSD Guardian Online

IloveJosh · 01-08-2009, 03:34 PM

Thanks for the news, Laura

**Lazy** · 01-09-2009, 03:34 PM

London Free Press - Entertainment - Kaufman seeks meaning of life