This dreamy, playful, tender ode to having loved and lost instead of never loved at all finally gets the transfer that it deserves.
The film’s highpoint is one of the most moving sex scenes in all of American cinema, and the irony of it involving bland puppets is hardly lost on Kaufman and Johnson.
Anomalisa exhibits Charlie Kaufman’s patented mix of tender melancholy and dark, absurdist comedy.
Time has revealed one of the best American films of the 1990s to be less a meta comedy and more a despairing satirical horror film.
The primary tactic in Snyder’s repertoire is decontextualization.
Rule number one for prognosticating the Best Original Screenplay category: Rule out Mike Leigh at your own peril.
This is a film that challenges any sense of resentment in identity building, and for that alone, it deserves wide praise.
The artistic psyche has never been more joylessly explored than in Synecdoche, New York.
Nothing could possibly prepare you for the overwhelming mindfuckery that is Synecdoche, New York.
What a long, strange week it’s been.
Show, don’t tell, say the movie experts.
The DVD for is rather pedestrian, but luckily the film is extraordinary enough to stand on its own.
Joel attempts to fight the erasure in his own mind, and Eternal Sunshine admits early on that it’s a fight he cannot win.
Too bad that the crummy cover art may deter some prospective buyers.
The entire film bears the hand of Donald Kaufman’s revisions found in the last 30 minutes of Adaptation.
Donald Kaufman is to Charlie Kaufman as Charlie Kaufman is to Susan Orlean as Susan Orlean is to John Laroche.
The film employs a surrealist vernacular that owes plenty to Buñuel and Svankmajer.