It was probably inevitable that Charlie Kaufman would step up and take the director's chair with one of his own scripts. He has had close relationships with several of the directors he has worked with, and the films where he didn't have this relationship often ended with Kaufman disappointed in the outcome. With (the difficult to pronounce) Synecdoche, New York, Kaufman shows that he can handle directing a fairly complicated film. Synecdoche captures a number of the common elements that are... read more