Synecdoche, New York (US Version) DVD Region 1

Obsession and identity are recurring themes in screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's work, and he draws on them again in his directorial debut, SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK. Kaufman's film focuses on the wiles of Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a regional theater director who has won a MacArthur grant to help produce his next project. Cotard's artist wife, Adele Lack (Catherine Keener), subsequently departs with their daughter to Berlin, and he begins a flirtation with box office clerk Hazel (Samantha Morton). Much of the movie revolves around Cotard's ambitious next project, based around his life, which is being constructed in an enormous industrial space in New York City. As the years pass and the project is mired in endless rehearsals that replicate Cotard's existence, the tortured director obsesses over Adele, Hazel, his daughter, his health, and myriad other topics. The complex and often highly inventive narrative of SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK is typical of Kaufman's screenplays for features such as BEING JOHN MALKOVICH and ADAPTATION. The film draws heavily on the kind of visual trickery that director Spike Jonze has often used in his adaptations of Kaufman's works, and features a strong performance from Hoffman as Cotard. Occasionally the film is abstract and surreal: Hazel lives in a house that is permanently on fire, while the actors Cotard casts in his play often blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Moviegoers will theorize about the true meaning behind Kaufman's feature: it offers no easy answers. SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK is a film that requires as much work from its viewers as it does from the resolutely excellent cast that brought it to life, and as the film careers from hilarity to sadness in the blink of an eye, there's little doubt that this is another superlative entry in Kaufman's canon.

"SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK is beautiful....It makes an irrefutable case for the universality of the individual human experience." - Carina, Chocano (Los Angeles Times Critic), Los Angeles Times, 10/24/2008

"SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK is as much a cry from the heart as it is an assertion of creative consciousness. It's extravagantly conceptual but also tethered to the here and now..." - Manohla, Dargis (Film Critic), New York Times, 10/24/2008

"[F]or viewers up for the challenge, it may be the film most likely to stick with you." - Emily, Rems (Premiere Critic), Premiere, 10/24/2008

"This is a film with the richness of great fiction....The subject of SYNECDOCHE is nothing less than human life and how it works." - Roger, Ebert (Critic and screenwriter), Chicago Sun-Times, 11/05/2008

"Kaufman provides juicy roles for his actors, including Michelle Williams, Dianne Wiest and Tom Noonan, who get caught in the time war as art imitates something resembling existence." - Peter, Travers (Rolling Stone Critic), Rolling Stone, 11/13/2008

"[W]hile deadly serious in theme, the film is frantically playful in its construction, introducing a new surrealist gimmick in nearly every other scene..." - Chris, Norris (Variety Critic), Film Comment, 11/01/2008

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Artist Name(s):	Dianne Wiest (Actor) | Philip Seymour Hoffman (Actor) | Michelle Williams (Actor) | Paul Thomas Anderson (Actor) | Patricia Whitcher (Actor) | Emily Watson (Actor) | Martin Starr (Actor) | Jennifer Beals | Duncan Regehr | Samantha Morton (Actor) | Dave England 戴安蕙絲 (Actor) | 菲臘施摩荷夫曼 (Actor) | 米雪 威廉絲 (Actor) | 保羅湯瑪士安德遜 (Actor) | Patricia Whitcher (Actor) | Emily Watson (Actor) | Martin Starr (Actor) | Jennifer Beals | Duncan Regehr | Samantha Morton (Actor) | Dave England 戴安蕙丝 (Actor) | 菲腊施摩荷夫曼 (Actor) | 米雪 威廉丝 (Actor) | Paul Thomas Anderson (Actor) | Patricia Whitcher (Actor) | Emily Watson (Actor) | Martin Starr (Actor) | Jennifer Beals | Duncan Regehr | Samantha Morton (Actor) | Dave England Dianne Wiest (Actor) | Ｐｈｉｌｉｐ　Ｓｅｙｍｏｕｒ　Ｈｏｆｆｍａｎ (Actor) | Ｍｉｃｈｅｌｌｅ Ｗｉｌｌｉａｍｓ (Actor) | Ｐａｕｌ　Ｔｈｏｍａｓ Ａｎｄｅｒｓｏｎ (Actor) | Patricia Whitcher (Actor) | Emily Watson (Actor) | Martin Starr (Actor) | Ｊｅｎｎｉｆｅｒ Ｂｅａｌｓ | Duncan Regehr | Samantha Morton (Actor) | Dave England Dianne Wiest (Actor) | Philip Seymour Hoffman (Actor) | Michelle Williams (Actor) | Paul Thomas Anderson (Actor) | Patricia Whitcher (Actor) | Emily Watson (Actor) | Martin Starr (Actor) | Jennifer Beals | Duncan Regehr | Samantha Morton (Actor) | Dave England
Producer:	Hope Davis | Samantha Morton | David Riker 賀比戴維斯 | Samantha Morton | David Riker 贺比戴维斯 | Samantha Morton | David Riker Hope Davis | Samantha Morton | David Riker Hope Davis | Samantha Morton | David Riker
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Release Date:	2009-03-10
UPC Code:	043396289963
Country of Origin:	United States
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Color Information:	Color
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating:	R (MPAA)
Publisher:	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Package Weight:	180 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1014350819

Director: Charlie Kaufman

DVD Features:

Region [unknown]
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Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English
Additional Release Material:
NFTS/Script Factory Masterclass with Charlie Kaufman
Screen Animations
Interviews:
1. The Story of Caden Cotard: In Conversation with Phillip Seymour Hoffman
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