with its whiskers
others call him the Meltdown Man
small-town atmosphere through lush orchestrations and memorable themes
Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews)
set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945
Synecdoche, New York (Blu-ray) Jean-Pierre Melville with its whiskersCaden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a theatre director in Schenectady, New York, receives a MacArthur grant and decides to mount an enormous, life consuming theatrical work inside a vast warehouse in Manhattan, a replica of the city in which actors play out versions of his own life, forever expanding. Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut is a singular, bewildering, deeply felt meditation on mortality, art, and the impossibility of self knowledge.