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 ...

In “Synecdoche, New York,” we are invited, I believe, to be Charlie Kaufman. Thanks, I’d rather not. What’s the rule about movies with hard-to-pronounce titles?

For its first 20 or so minutes, Synecdoche, New York, ... Kaufman is grappling with big themes usually reserved for dense literature: the meaning of life, its sadness and tragedy, ...

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 ...

Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is the year's most frightening, confusing and astounding movie because it understands why life is frightening, confusing and astounding—not because nothing ...

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….