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Hollywood's Brainiest Screenwriter Pleases Crowds by Refusing to Please Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche, is his trickiest screenplay to date. It's a borderline-obsessive story of a man's heartache and death, a subject that is not an easy sell to audiences.   |
Salon.com
December 6, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
"Adaptation" A dizzying feature from the self-consciously deranged makers of "Being John Malkovich" imagines Nicolas Cage as a chronic masturbator and Meryl Streep as a mean, mean Susan Orlean. |
Salon.com
July 13, 2000
Suzy Hansen |
"Being John Malkovich" Spike Jonze's feature debut tells us what it's like to be inside a famous actor's brain -- and what it's like to be a marionette. |
Salon.com
December 16, 2002
Stephanie Zacharek |
"Adaptation" and the perils of adaptation While Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze made their massively self-indulgent metamovie, other filmmakers have been doing the hard work of shaping books into films. |
Wired
December 20, 2007
Jennifer Hillner |
Be Kind Rewind Director Michel Gondry Forgoes Dreamy Plots for Straight-Up Comedy Like Chaplin's comedies, Gondry's new film starring Jack Black, Be Kind Rewind, is both low-tech slapstick and high-concept social commentary. |
Salon.com
July 6, 2000
Jeff Stark |
"Man on the Moon" The DVD of Milos Forman's smart Andy Kaufman biopic misses a chance to illuminate the comedian's real-life weirdness. |
Salon.com
October 30, 1999
Daniel Kraus |
Tromatized! The Frank Capra of splatter films strikes again. |
