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And the Most Anticipated Film of 2008 is…. Synecdoche, New York

Published on February 1, 2008

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#1. Synecdoche, New York

Director/Writer: Charlie Kaufman
Producers: Anthony Bregman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Spike Jonze (Human Nature), Sidney Kimmel (Lars and the Real Girl) and Kaufman
Distributor: Kimmel Distribution

The Gist: The film centers on an anguished playwright and several women in his life. Synecdoche is “a figure of speech in which the word for part of something is used to mean the whole”. Hoffman will play a theater director who ambitiously attempts to put on a play by creating a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse.

Fact: The film was originally set to be directed by Spike Jonze who instead chose to direct Where the Wild Things Are…one of our most anticipated films for 2009.

See It: The most highly anticipated directorial debut is from the screenwriter (brainchild) behind Adaptation and Being John Malkovich.

Release Date/Status?: A Cannes film festival premiere seems logical followed by a release that puts Hoffman perf into contention.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).