In Norman MacCaig's poem Visiting Hour, the speaker uses synecdoche to describe himself as he visits his wife in hospital: 'the hospital smell combs my nostrils as they go bobbing along.' MacCaig ...

Kaufman's directorial debut and his most challenging, infuriating puzzle to date. It's the cinematic equivalent of something like the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus" or "Strawberry Fields Forever": The ...

Synecdoche is a technique in which a part of something is made to represent the whole thing or the whole thing is made to represent a part. In Norman MacCaig's poem Visiting Hour, the speaker uses ...

Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut is either a masterpiece or a massively dysfunctional act of self-indulgence For his directorial debut, the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has outdone himself, for ...

The very title Synecdoche, New York is off-putting. Like a genius lunatic wandering the streets, it seems to scream, “I’m weird and difficult! Stay away!” But I say, it’s weird and wonderful. Go!

Click to viewSynecdoche, New York, the latest film from Charlie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” Kaufman, creates its own brand of magical realism crossed with science fiction. The tale of a ...

NB: The following contains spoilers for Synecdoche, New York. Caden Cotard wakes up with aching limbs to the sound of the television blaring, his four-year-old daughter yelling from the bathroom and ...