A few months late, but well worth posting. Jeff Wells gives a mixed review of Synecdoche, New York, after seeing it at Cannes. (Bottom line, according to Wells: the film is patchy - enjoyable in places, too gloomy overall). But here's something kind of interesting and, y'know, flat-out gossipy/amusing. Says Wells:

I was especially wowed by a sermon scene that happens sometime in the last third. It's just some young bearded clerical letting go with the gospel according to Kaufman (we live in a gloomy, fearful universe), but the way it was written and performed made me feel alive and re-engaged. After the press conference I asked Kaufman and then producer Anthony Bregman if I could be sent a copy of this speech to give HE readers a taste of what's really good and special about the film, and Bregman said, "Do you have a card?" No, I'm cardless, I said, but you can easily send me the dialogue through the website. I knew then and there I'd never hear from him. If anyone has a copy of the script, please get in touch.

Meow.

Bregman responds to this with both barrels, in the Comments undeneath the article (#25, right at the bottom). Or someone claiming to be Bregman. Seems to be the real deal, anyway.

On a completely random note, if any of you happen to be fans of noir/hardboiled crime fiction, similar to Dennis Lehane's stuff, do check out George Pelecanos' novel The Big Blowdown. Best book I've read this year. (But don't bitch to me if you read it on my recommendation and hate it... I am not Oprah.)