Just got back from a late dinner with a gang of journalists at La Pizza, which has always been Roger Ebert’s favorite restaurant in Cannes. Roger, sadly, isn’t here this year. He’s been in the ...

Synecdoche (pronounced "sihneckdohkee") is, on the other hand, a word that means a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole stands for a part. Not for the first time, ...

Synecdoche, New York is comically difficult to summarize (and pronounce), but here goes: Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who may or may not be a hypochondriac, is a small-time theater director ...

Synecdoche (pronounced sineckdekey) is a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole or vice versa. Synecdoche, New York is the story of a neurotic theater director from Schenectady (yes, ...

In the signature Charlie Kaufman-scripted comedy “Being John Malkovich,” viewers were invited to feel what it’s like to be you-know-who. In “Synecdoche, New York,” we are invited, I believe, to be ...

When I think of Charlie Kaufman’s work in film over the past 10 years, I often think of Alice going down the rabbit hole straight into Wonderland. The tunnel into the mind of John Malkovich in Kaufman ...