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Published on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 11:38am |
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2.5 Hours Of Charlie Kaufman Yappin'? Yes, Please!
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Got two-and-a-half hours to spare? I don't, but when I do get a little downtime, I plan on listening to every minute of Jason Tanz's audio interview with Charlie Kaufman. Kaufman is a notoriously nervous interview subject (the sweating bit from ADAPTATION isn't a bit at all), but if you can engage him intellectually, you'll quickly find that he's sensationally self-critical and, shock of shocks, really fucking funny. I say this not from experience (I've only participated in a roundtable interview with Kaufman, and that was dreadful), but from watching Charlie Rose.
Hopefully, I'll get the opportunity to see SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK before Sony Pictures Classics tries their luck with a limited release on October 24th. The responses have been very mixed, something Kaufman uneasily acknowledges at the outset of Tanz's interview (as a coffee grinder rages in the background; I've transcribed - am currently transcribing - over worse). But even if Kaufman's gotten lost in his own head this time out, puzzling over his ambitious failure would be preferable to wasting two hours on anonymous studio product.
And I'm aware that Wired posted the audio a week ago. This is just a heads up for all of you who can't spend every waking hour scouring the internet for cool shit (which means you probably don't have two-and-a-half hours to spare either, but whatever).
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Reader Talkback
Okay, I'll see this... by LordPorkington | Sep 16th, 2008 11:40:29 AM | I've heard his directorial
debut is unwatchable by Garbageman33 | Sep 16th, 2008 11:40:56 AM | garbageman by The InSneider | Sep 16th, 2008 12:05:45 PM | I'm thinking of becoming a
transvestite. by cookylamoo | Sep 16th, 2008 12:16:58 PM | Don't care how much of a mess
this is... by Henry_Krinkle_from_FairLawn | Sep 16th, 2008 12:37:02 PM | Henry_Krinkle_from_FairLawn... by LordPorkington | Sep 16th, 2008 01:10:19 PM | Yeah, I don't have time to
scour the nets by pokadoo | Sep 16th, 2008 01:16:08 PM | It actually takes MORE effort by IForgotAbout19 | Sep 16th, 2008 01:27:50 PM | tried* by IForgotAbout19 | Sep 16th, 2008 01:28:06 PM | Oh, and by IForgotAbout19 | Sep 16th, 2008 01:28:30 PM | by AllieJamison | Sep 16th, 2008 01:42:43 PM | Haha the gay waiter walks in
on the conversation... by TroutMaskReplicant | Sep 16th, 2008 02:17:48 PM | by AllieJamison | Sep 16th, 2008 02:25:04 PM | Does anyone wonder if Kauffman
is talking about Juno by TroutMaskReplicant | Sep 16th, 2008 02:33:44 PM | More great audio interviews... by JackLint | Sep 16th, 2008 03:27:11 PM | Hey Charlie.... by Smerdyakov | Sep 16th, 2008 04:52:56 PM | isnt he sneaking and talking
this at USC soon? by JRKerr | Sep 16th, 2008 05:38:40 PM | I've already listened trough
the whole thing... by technoman | Sep 16th, 2008 05:57:01 PM | 2 hours of an overrated hack! by criticalbliss | Sep 16th, 2008 06:21:49 PM | Charlie Kaufman loves 30
Rock... by DanielKurland | Sep 16th, 2008 06:26:58 PM | "Hollow, cardboard
characters"??.... by DanielKurland | Sep 16th, 2008 06:30:33 PM | Smerdyakov.... by RockLobster800 | Sep 16th, 2008 06:38:36 PM | or an arrested development
REFERENCE... by RockLobster800 | Sep 16th, 2008 06:43:41 PM | Awesome, thanks by BrandLoyalist | Sep 16th, 2008 07:03:21 PM | When I first rented Human
Nature by Mockingbuddha | Sep 16th, 2008 07:30:00 PM | Adaptation by greyspecter | Sep 16th, 2008 08:50:36 PM | How can anyone call Eternal
Sunshine hollow by Lovecraftfan | Sep 16th, 2008 10:24:14 PM | Synecdoche, NY is BRILLIANT by themovieslave | Sep 17th, 2008 04:21:58 PM |
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