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• Infectious Diseases In Cattle, preview

  Created: Sunday, 8 March 2009

  Here's a sneak peek at one of the Synecdoche DVD's special features, "Infectious Diseases In Cattle: Blogger's Roundtable." ...

• Even more from Charlie's TV days

  Created: Friday, 6 March 2009

  Did I say Charlie wrote three Ned & Stacey eps? Yes, I did. And here's the second, "Loganberry's Run." It's divided into 3 parts, which you should be able to navigate through. Thanks again, Carl! ...

• Kaufman too hairy for Gondry's taste

  Created: Friday, 6 March 2009

  Michel Gondry, on Tokyo! collaborator and girlfriend Gabrielle Bell: She has a very sharp opinion, and reminded me of when I was working with Charlie Kaufman, only I would not kiss Charlie Kaufman. He has too much hair for my taste. (Source) ...

• More from Charlie's TV past

  Created: Thursday, 5 March 2009

  Lost my damn update! Thanks for crashing, Firefox. YOU ARE AWESOME. Let's do this again. In 1996 - three years before Being John Malkovich hit cinemas - Charlie joined the sitcom Ned & Stacey as a producer, during its second and final season. H...

• "Eyewitness News," in full colour

  Created: Tuesday, 3 March 2009

  For a while we've had a script from the old TV series Alien Nation, and we're 98% sure it was co-written by "our" Charlie Kaufman. (It doesn't help that there was another Charles Kaufman who wrote scripts for a while, and his middle initial is...

• Introducing Squishy, the disappearing dog

  Created: Monday, 2 March 2009

  If you've read an early draft of the Synecdoche script, you'll know there's a minor storyline involving a dog-flattening accident, and that the flat dog (named Squishy) becomes a pet to one of the main characters. If you've seen the movie, you'll know t...

• Who wants to do a good deed?

  Created: Monday, 2 March 2009

  Those "New Ear" MP3s? Not too easy for some non-native English speakers to understand, and unfortunately the script has never come to light. SO. First person to type up and send in a good - good! - translation of "Hope Leaves the Theater,...

• The funeral monologue, YouTube-ified

  Created: Sunday, 1 March 2009

  Thanks to mattyohe for this!     ...

• Iran hearts Charlie, part 2

  Created: Sunday, 1 March 2009

  In October, we got word that Iran's only professional screenwriting magazine, Filmnegar, would soon be putting out a special Charlie-centric issue. After a bit of a delay - while everyone over there waited for a chance to see Synecdoche - the issue's f...

• Video: the funeral monologue in Synecdoche

  Created: Saturday, 28 February 2009

    Funeral Monologue Uploaded by stereoarcade   Brian sent that in -- YAY FOR BRIAN! He managed to get a copy of the DVD, two weeks early. (He also warns that he had trouble figuring out how to use...

• Charlie and Synecdoche cast at the Spirits

  Created: Tuesday, 24 February 2009

  No, unfortunately I don't mean some kind of kegger. I'm talking about those Indie Spirit Awards. Via the Twitter of Karina Longworth ("Charlie Kaufman just pointed at me and said 'I know you'. At least I...

• SNY "Best First Feature"; wrong short, nervous Jewish guy nabs Best Screenplay @ Spirit Awards

  Created: Monday, 23 February 2009

  Film Independent’s Spirit Awards went down yesterday, and Synecdoche took out Best First Feature. HOORAY. ("I guess it really is a bad title," says Charlie, after Aaron Eckhart can't pronounce it.) It also took out the Robert Altman Awar...

• Even more on memory erasure

  Created: Wednesday, 18 February 2009

  My browser doesn't want to co-operate at the moment, so I have no idea what's in the clip. It might be Charlie. It might be a panda sneezing. It might be porn. Who knows? [Edit: following up from the previous update, it's about memory erasure.] Tha...

• More on memory erasure

  Created: Wednesday, 18 February 2009

  From the ever-informative interwebs, via Josh: LONDON, Feb 15 (Reuters) - A widely available blood pressure pill could one day help people erase bad memories, perhaps treating some anxiety disorders and phobias, according to a Dutch study...

• Metaphysical Escape Attempts in the Screenplays of Charlie Kaufman

  Created: Wednesday, 11 February 2009

  ...is the subheading of an essay on Charlie's work, by Colm O'Shea. "Kaufman's homunculi schema is an implicit mockery of our bottomless ignorance of the nature of consciousness." Oh, I say that all the time. For all...

• Synecdoche a “Blue Moon Masterpiece”

  Created: Wednesday, 11 February 2009

  If you've been wondering what Daniel Waters (writer/director of Heathers, Hudson Hawk and Demolition Man) does in his spare time, evidently he sees 300 or so movies per year and ranks each and every one of 'em. This year (or last year, I suppose), Syne...

• He needs that like a...

  Created: Wednesday, 11 February 2009

  Just in time for Valentine's Day, the Wonderful Pav sends us this: Synecdoche fan art! Like wow. Really very well done, and also kinda gross and dark. EXACTLY THE WAY WE LIKES IT. ...

• Fan Art page is back

  Created: Sunday, 8 February 2009

  Finally got around to putting all the fan art into one page. Some very cool stuff there, I must say; you guys are good. I'll be double-checking shortly, to make sure I haven't missed anything that ought to be there. I have no idea why all the images wa...

• The last 10 films seen by Charlie

  Created: Tuesday, 3 February 2009

  Courtesy of Film Comment (Nov/Dec '08) THE LAST 10 FILMS I'VE SEEN: CHARLIE KAUFMAN WRITER-DIRECTOR, PASADENA The Eye Leatherheads Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day My Winnipeg Kung Fu Panda Wall-E Sky High ...

• New book examines Eternal Sunshine, among other flicks

  Created: Tuesday, 3 February 2009

  Carl sent in a link to a book called Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema, which possibly has a section dedicated to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Says the book's summary, in part: Alternative worlds in films such as The Wizard of Oz...