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Charlie Kaufman’s stop-motion ‘Anomalisa’ gets its first trailer
The festival buzz surrounding Charlie Kaufman’s latest film Anomalisa has been enormous. The film, along with co-director Duke Johnson, is his first since his challenging and thought provoking debut Synecdoche, New York in 2008, and it’s a stop-motion animated film no less. The hype was so great after winning the Special Jury Prize out of […] More
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Anomalisa’ a winningly bizarre exploration of love and mental distress
Anomalisa Directed by Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman 2015, USA The original Anomalisa was a “sound play” by Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation), performed before an audience only twice. The “sound” aspect referred to the fact that its main character has a disorder that makes him see everyone with […] More
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TIFF ’15: Top 5 picks by Max
Youth It’s hard to articulate just what makes Youth so special. Fresh off his Academy Award win for The Great Beauty, Sorrentino turns his attention towards two men, one a retired composer, and the other, a film director whose career has been in the decline for some time. Sorrentino is not exactly old by any […] More
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Fantastic Fest announces final wave which includes ‘Anomalisa’ and ‘Son of Saul’
The final wave of Fantastic Fest 2015 has finally been announced and it features a crop of festival darlings along with Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s highly anticipated stop-motion animation film Anomalisa. The Cannes Grand Prix winner Son of Saul joins the list as well as the new film from director Matteo Garrone, Tale of […] More