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1/2: 'What Just Happened' is a Hollywood hoot
Special to The Morning CallSay what you will about the guy, but nobody is better at playing Bruce Willis than Bruce Willis. As a portly, bearded, tantrum-throwing, chair-tossing version of the movie star ''Bruce Willis, Die Hard'' dude, he all but walks off with ''What Just...Tags: Bruce Willis, Robin Wright Penn, Sherry Lansing, John Turturro, Barry Levinson
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Holiday movie madness
Special to The Morning CallVampires, wrestlers, Nazis and nuns. It's going to be a wild ride at the box office this holiday season. From now until the end of the year, Hollywood is gifting audiences with risk-taking flicks such as '' Twilight,'' ''The Wrestler,'' '' Valkyrie'' and...Tags: Milk, Dustin Hoffman, Darren Aronofsky, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick
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'Synecdoche, New York' intriguing but confusing
NewsdayYou can look it up: A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole ("wheels" for "car") or the other way around ("the law" for "policeman"). Is art a synecdoche? Is life? Those are just two of the many, many questions posed in...Tags: Emily Watson, New York, Charlie Kaufman, R Rated Movies, Michelle Williams
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Like Sisyphus On A Treadmill, 'Synecdoche' Goes Nowhere
Orlando SentinelWith "Synecdoche, New York,"the writer of the trippy "Being John Malkovich" takes us not inside the body of the eccentric actor but inside his own head for a couple of hours. But even fans of the cerebral Charlie Kaufman may find this falls under the...Tags: Emily Watson, New York, Charlie Kaufman, R Rated Movies, Movies
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In 'Synecdoche,' the parts don't quite make up the whole
The hotbed of anxiety and ego that can underlie a theater rehearsal or a routine visit to a doctor's office - that's one of several emotional textures that writer-director Charlie Kaufman (the screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation)...Tags: Emily Watson, Theater, New York, Charlie Kaufman, Michelle Williams
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For Catherine Keener, movie was like a dream
NewsdayActress Catherine Keener has become a ubiquitous presence in movies, including Capote, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Into the Wild and, most recently, Synecdoche, New York, the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. I'm not sure I...Tags: New York, Charlie Kaufman, Jamie Foxx, Movies, Robert Downey Jr.
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Q&A with Catherine Keener of 'Synecdoche'
Once considered the indie queen, actress Catherine Keener has become a ubiquitous presence in movies ranging from "Capote" to "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" to "Into the Wild," to this week's "Synecdoche, NY," the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter...Tags: Charlie Kaufman, Jamie Foxx, Santa Monica, Movies, Robert Downey Jr.
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'Synecdoche, New York' (3 1/2 stars!) stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams
Tribune criticMost movies fling an audience from A to B to C so that the typical customer response to the average studio product—"Well, it was OK"—is elicited and there's a few more ducats in the coffers at the end of the day and no hard feelings. Being...Tags: Family, Evanston, Public Employees, Cannes Film Festival, Charlie Kaufman
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Money Is The Ultimate Force In 'What Just Happened'
Los Angeles TimesIt's not until the last few minutes of "What Just Happened" that the film's title is posed as a question, not by the protagonist, but by his ex-wife. She doesn't get a straight answer, as, presumably, she never has. Her former husband is a Hollywood...Tags: Bruce Willis, Robin Wright Penn, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Robert De Niro, Barry Levinson
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The unreal Charlie Kaufman
Tribune criticCharlie Kaufman doesn't go in for what he calls "faux-realism." There's a lot of it onscreen these days: Everything from the "Bourne" pictures to "Rachel Getting Married" to the forthcoming Mickey Rourke picture "The Wrestler" is shot with hand-held...Tags: Rachel Getting Married (movie), Cannes Film Festival, Charlie Kaufman, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Chicago International Film Festival
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Not much happening in 'What Just Happened'
NewsdayHollywood loves to satirize itself using its own medium. But with few exceptions -- The Player comes to mind -- the laughs are rarely as wicked as they should be, and the skewers barely break the skin. So it is with What Just Happened, directed by Barry...Tags: Bruce Willis, Robin Wright Penn, John Turturro, Robert DeNiro, Barry Levinson
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Review: 'Synecdoche, New York'
Movie Critic" Synecdoche, New York," screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's wildly ambitious directorial debut, recalls the Jorge Luis Borges story in which the imperial cartographers make a map of the empire so detailed and true-to-life that it takes on the exact dimensions...Tags: Halloween, Depression, Jorge Luis Borges, Charlie Kaufman, Michelle Williams
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