Synecdoche, New York News

Sophie Barthes's engaging new comedy Cold Souls is the latest of a new breed of films that can be called "Kaufmanesque", with deference to the screenplays of Charlie Kaufman .

Sreenwriter Charlie Kaufman, who spun American cinema on its head with striking scripts for "Being John Malkovich" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," goes for fiendishly obsessional, intellectual acrobatics in his directorial debut.

Sometimes it's still hard to believe that Michelle Williams was once Jen Lindley on Dawson's Creek .

Among other things, Tom Noonan is a musician , playwright, and writer-director of two acclaimed films , but most will sooner recognize this tall, reserved but eerily intense gentleman as a memorable character actor from films as diverse as Manhunter , Mystery Train , and Synecdoche New York .

The Vortex, through Nov. 7 Running time: 2 hr The older I get, the more I seem to enjoy plays and films that have no obvious linear, narrative plot.

After spending Friday afternoon beneath Holborn, Saturday afternoon was to be spent in the oil tanks of the Tate Modern .

Tom Noonan stars in "The House of the Devil," filmed in a classically ominous Victorian home in the Lime Rock section of Salisbury.

Spike Jonze's film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book, Where the Wild Things Are , has been the buzz of critics and filmgoers alike since its opening last weekend.

Few things are more exciting than listening to Billy Corgan and David Byrne talk about late psychologist Carl Jung, right? Right? The two musicians will be part of an upcoming series on Jung's Red Book at New York City's Rubin Museum Of Arts that will also feature contributions from Sarah Silverman and screenwriter and director Charlie Kaufman .

Ken Loach's name may not spring to mind when pitching a feelgood fantasy football comedy, but Looking for Eric is the director's most jovially enjoyable film to date.

THERE'S no place like home. Especially Coraline Jones' home. In this luxuriously-shot film - the first ever stop-motion animation created in stereoscopic 3D - an 11-year-old girl moves to a creaky old building.

In veteran British director Ken Loach's engaging whimsy Steve Evets excels as a postie burdened by the demands of life.

Impenetrable, cryptic, demanding, depressing, confrontational, self-indulgent: all these were used to describe Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut.

Career television program ThinkTalk Networks and the GWU College Democrats are excited to host the event Tuesday, Sept.

He's proven you don't have to follow formula to make it in Hollywood, but in a talk at the VIFF forum he'll reveal the agony of his craft Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is in no better place to talk about his craft than he is today.

'Staten Island' is the only U.S. pic playing in competition at the 22nd Tokyo Film Festival, which announced its lineup on Wednesday.

Michelle Williams confirms she split from director Spike Jonze in the October issue of Vogue.

The aching, awful longing to mean something, to someone, somewhere - or to mean something to more than one other person; to have a life that doesn't wind down without notice, die out like a few words flung on a stage, an afterthought of a minor character: Where's the plot; where's the meaning ? And who writes our lives, anyway? Guildenstern and ...

It was the weekend from hell. I think we've had more movies lined up for a single issue before, and I know I've reviewed as many as nine, so it's not just quantity.

"Cold Souls," as in cold storage, is a little bit of science fiction, a little bit of existentialism and a whole lot of Paul Giamatti.