From the Archive: The Charlie Kaufman Canon
As Anomalisa opens in Austin, we revisit interviews and reviews
"...Is Charlie Kaufman the most talented screenwriter of his generation, or..."
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Jan. 15, 2016 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Being Charlie Kaufman
Will the real Charlie Kaufman please stand up?
"...on a pitch-black screen during which the lead character, Charlie Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage), unleashes a withering diatribe..."
Dec. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Nope, Charlie's Still on Top
Could any other screenwriter plausibly be called the best of the 21st century (well, so far)?
"...I'm sticking with my snotty pronouncement that Charlie Kaufman is the greatest screenwriter of the 21st century......"
Oct. 15, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Adaptation.
"...and ends. In between, director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman (the same team that gave us Being John..."
Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Are You There, World?
Watching Charlie Kaufman try to work it all out
"...The morning I meet Charlie Kaufman, he is tired, run ragged from weeks of..."
Nov. 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
A Master of Melancholy
Yeah, it's cool to kiss off Charlie Kaufman. But it's also idiotic.
"...I know you're fond of sweeping declarations, ergo: Charlie Kaufman is the greatest screenwriter of the 21st century...."
Oct. 14, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
"...but the story, from a script by professional oddball Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) revolves around the minor-league,..."
Jan. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Something More Than Just Cerebral
This is a different Kaufman, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind marks a different kind of picture for the writer
"...It's doubtful that everybody was laughing at Charlie Kaufman – the closest thing to a celebrity screenwriter..."
March 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Love is never having to say "I erased you."
"...electrodes on top. We’re in the alterna-world of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman here, and we accept the memory-erasing thingamajig just..."
March 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Best of the Best (With Qualifications)
"...So Charlie Kaufman is the best screenwriter of the 21st century,..."
Oct. 15, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt
Human Nature
"...this smart absurdist comedy written by Being John Malkovich's Charlie Kaufman and produced by that film's director, Spike Jonze...."
April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup
AFF's finalized lineup
"...previously announced Marquee Screenings of Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, and Kelly Reichardt's..."
Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Stranger Than Fiction
A good movie but not a great one, Stranger Than Fiction is reminiscent of the films of Charlie Kaufman but lacks that writer’s conceptual rigor and imaginative power.
"...Stranger Than Fiction is reminiscent of the films of Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) but..."
Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Be Kind Rewind
Michel Gondry's latest mind warp, which stars Jack Black and Mos Def, is long on vision and heart but short on narrative coherence.
"...Be Kind Rewind, written alone and without two-time collaborator Charlie Kaufman or any other surer hand at story and..."
Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Nines
Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, and Hope Davis star in three discrete but thematically linked short films in this feature-film-directing debut from screenwriter John August.
"...like some Bizarro World collaboration between Jean-Paul Sartre and Charlie Kaufman, and not in a good way, either. Granted,..."
Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Being John Malkovich
"...Nike and Nissan will not be altogether surprised. Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, however, is also a first-timer, and though it..."
Nov. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Synecdoche, New York
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s first venture as a director is audacious, ambitious, and amazing; it’s also intricate, self-referencing, and all-encompassing: in a word, a masterpiece.
"...Directed by: Charlie Kaufman. Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener,..."
Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Make Someone Happy – Someone Else, Because Chances Are It’ll Never Be You
Jimmy Durante will bring us together
"...what my problem is with the Marx Brothers and Kaufman combined. I’m not so thick-headed as to not be..."
Oct. 15, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Fantastic Fest 2015: Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman measures the weight of human consciousness
"...is no mistaking Anomalisa for anything other than a Charlie Kaufman movie...."
Sept. 28, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten
Screens Top 10s
The Chronicle's film critics talk about their favorite movies of the year
"...Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman), Milk (Dustin Lance Black), Wendy and Lucy (Kelly..."
Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Feature
"Before I Speak, I Have Something to Say"
Digging a hole three Marx Brothers deep
"...In championing Charlie Kaufman, I’m hardly defending the era in which, by..."
Oct. 14, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman goes inside the minds of puppets
"...Directed by: Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson...."
Jan. 15, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
1999 Film Critics Poll
"...Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich), Trey Parker (script & lyrics),..."
Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature
Game On! and the World According to Kaufmans
Kaufman versus Kaufman
"...of the great old-school playwright and screenwriter George S. Kaufman (You Can’t Take It With You, The Man Who..."
Oct. 14, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt
Looking at the Big Picture
Paramount Summer Classic Film Series goes large
"...saw Adaptation – on DVD – the mythos of Charlie Kaufman's genius took hold of my brain. Then it..."
May 20, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin
Feeling an Elephant
The Toronto International Film Festival's inexhaustible breadth
"...most unusual film I saw was Anomalisa, written by Charlie Kaufman and co-directed by Kaufman and Duke Johnson, in..."
Sept. 25, 2015 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
Fantastic Fest Unleashes Final Wave
New films from Charlie Kaufman and Owen Egerton join fest
"...time around is Anomalisa, the newest title from writer/director Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Synecdoche, New..."
Sept. 9, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
The Pen May Be Mightier Than the Sword, but Sometimes It Makes You Want to Slit Your Wrists
The Austin Film Society's latest series zooms in on creative block
"...to think of as So Much Dexedrine; and writer Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York (2008), about a..."
May 2, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
No Country For Old Horses?
Senate considers horse slaughter
"...the Dallas Crown Inc. horse slaughter plant operated in Kaufman, plant operators bought the small North Texas city a..."
July 16, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith
The True Value of a Seven-Cent Nickle
"...a lesson from the Marx Brothers and George S. Kaufman...."
