Best Movie?
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leonthesleepy — 14 years ago(June 10, 2011 09:33 AM)
well let me first say, all the films hes written, are in my Top 50, i love everyone of them, but right now, i think its.
Synecdoche, New York!!!
One of the few films i can truly say that feels like it has a life inside it. -
sjtheil — 14 years ago(July 30, 2011 08:47 PM)
Synecdoche, NY - Currently my favorite movie of all time. Adaptation is my second favorite from Mr. Kaufman but, though good, it is not in my top of all time.
Interestingly, my first date with my ex-girlfriend, we watched Adaptation at my apartment, through our slow separation & explosive breakup a year later, I watched Synecdoche: and that might have something to do with it, I think of her as my Hazel.
I'm not very impressed with Eternal or Being., though I haven't watched them in some while. Maybe my brain is addled, but no movie speaks to me as directly, like I've been up for ten days on meth, as Synecdoche NY does. And I mean that in a scarily literal sense. Watching it is like thinking God is playing a cruel practical joke on me, referencing my own life in every scene, to very specific and particular things that are not broad enough to be simple analogies that just 'anyone' could get.
If that is part of the genius behind the movie that speaks as archetypes to everyone in that way, then Charlie Kaufman really is divinely inspired. And thus, as a paradox of some sort, God really is talking to me directly through Kaufman by the fact that Kaufman managed to create this movie without God talking to me directly. The omnipotence paradox of Kaufman's Synecdoche, it's Heraclitus, it's Mandelbrot's set it's Karamazov, it's Krapp's last tape. Even parts in the script that weren't included have personal meaning, and meaningful too in that they weren't included. A confirmation bias of my own maybe? Anything that makes someone as intellectually stubborn as me yield so much for that, then, is impressive. Maybe I'm just getting old and yielding more or easier. A line from Henry Bean's "The Believer" sums that up for me; but "what if" yielding, "being crushed", is the best feeling you could have? -
LashLaruey — 14 years ago(December 17, 2011 03:00 PM)
I actually haven't seen Synedoche, NY which I'm a bit ashamed of, but here my favourite of his films I have seen is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I basically love everything about it. The actors, characters, script (obviously), the directing, the visual style, the 'mood'. It's the perfect film for me.
I do like Adaptation. and Being John Malkovich, there's just some elements in them that aren't right for me that makes them not on par with Eternal. To be honest, I find Being John Malcovich quite disturbing.
Do not speak of this, if you do
They will find you. -
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nissebror — 13 years ago(May 18, 2012 08:50 AM)
I haven't seen Eternal Sunshine in ages but from what I remember I would rank it second behind Synecdoche, New York. Adaptation finishes off top 3 with Being John Malkovich being fourth. I haven't seen the others yet but I doubt anything we'll be able to beat Synecdoche NY. It's probably one of my favorite movies of all time!
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batmanjokercatwoman — 13 years ago(April 06, 2013 01:21 PM)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Also in my top 5 favourite films of all time.
Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Synecdoche, New York are a tie.
All 3 are an anthology trilogy to me, which makes sense since the theme of BJM is Acting, A is Writing and S,NY is Directing.