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Top 10: Repeat Offenders in Charlie Kaufman and Catherine Keener

I’m cheating here since it’s difficult to call Synecdoche, New York a reunion between a director and actress especially when this is Charlie Kaufman’s debut as a director. She played a bitchy co-worker to Cusack in Being John Malkovich, and she plays herself in Adaptation – both directed by Spike Jonze, but penned by Kaufman. It certainly feels like Catherine Keener will be a long term muse for his future films and perhaps even some television work.

9. Synecdoche, New York

Comments: I’m cheating here since it’s difficult to call Synecdoche, New York a reunion between a director and actress especially when this is Charlie Kaufman’s debut as a director. She played a bitchy co-worker to John Cusack in Being John Malkovich, and she plays herself in Adaptation – both directed by Spike Jonze, but penned by Kaufman. It certainly feels like Catherine Keener will be a long term muse for his future films and perhaps even some television work.

 

 
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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).

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