Rather than serving up action and straightforward plots, some movies explore inner lives, abstract ideas, and emotional atmospheres. In this regard, they're almost more like introspective literature ...

Synecdoche, New York JCVD The Title A hard-to-pronounce literary pun. Four easy-to-pronounce letters. The Hero A zhlubby, depressed theater director named Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman). A ...

Things To Do ‘Synecdoche’ not visitor friendly ‘Synecdoche, New York’ is set in a Philip K. Dick-like world of paranoia, decay, doppelgangers and alternate realities.

For its first 20 or so minutes, Synecdoche, New York, the directorial debut of the Oscar-winning, mind-bending screenwriter Charlie Kaufman appears to be a meditation on death. We first meet its ...

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 ...

Synecdoche, after all, is the literary device that uses a part of something to represent its whole—but what is the whole of living? The epiphanies are fleeting, the disappointments endure, and ...

Rising from the ashes of now-defunct Issues Magazine, Synecdoche launched this semester as the newest literary arts magazine on campus. In contrast to Issues’ focus on creative writing, the fledgling ...

take a look at Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis, the novel by America's first Nobel laureate in literature that made the other pole of our synecdoche circus a household phrase….