Synecdoche, New York

…debut with the hugely ambitious Synecdoche, New York, an atmospheric exploration of mortality and art that is even more self-reflexive than Kaufman’s earlier work. Philip Seymour Hoffman played a physically deteriorating theatre director who embarks on the years-long development of his magnum opus, an unwieldy drama that eventually extends across…

…in Charlie Kaufman’s abstruse drama Synecdoche, New York (2008), playing an insecure theater director who moves to New York City and spends years attempting to stage a massive production. In Doubt (2008) he portrayed a Roman Catholic priest suspected by a nun (played by Meryl Streep) of abusing children. The…

…Charlie Kaufman’s inventive existential drama Synecdoche, New York (2008). She won accolades for her nearly solo turn in Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy (2008), in which she evinced the solitary desperation of an impoverished drifter. For her emotionally raw performance in Blue Valentine (2010), which sketched the story of a…