I believe it has either just come out or will be doing so soon.
"Eternal Sunshine" is awesome. I just saw the preview last week. Yay!
And yeah Donald Kaufman does not exist.
They missed a trick with the ending of Adaptation. I'd have made it that the two brothers were actually the same person, as in Donald's bad screenplay.
Or Fight Club, or A Beautiful Mind.
The rehabilitation of brutalist architecture continues with the friends of the Get Carter car park:
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1191703,00.html
That was mentioned in _Your Face Here_, a book about British cult films.
I well remember that as I read his first draft I was shocked. Beneath the witty wildness, I found a telling, indeed a confession, of nearly shameful intimacy. And by that I don't mean the masturbation scenes. Jerking off in movies in no more embarrassing than smoking. In L.A. nowadays if you really want to suffer chagrin, put a cigarette in your mouth. No, I mean that his pages read like a filmic stream of consciousness, an allegory starring the contentious facets of Kaufman's psyche. He'd given eac h faction a characterization taken from so-called reality, then declared war on himself. I thought, "This man's been through analysis and it hasn't worked, so now he's dissecting his neuroses in public. He's either got a death wish or the guts of a cat buglar."
Creative conflicts aside, Kaufman is not, apparently, a big fan of kaufman.So, echoing Malkovich, he cast Susan Orlean to portray his self-loafing as she gives a heartbreaking voice to his hunger to transform. And I'm sure that like us all, Kaufman, in h
...And I'm sure that like us all, Kaufman, in his life-long pursuit of inner peace, has tried on one role after another without success. John Laroche, therefor, became the perfect player for that foible, as he constantly reinvents himself, animating each incarnation with magnificant ethusiasm followed by disaster.
Finally, there's McKee. It's no secret that Kaufman hates authority. Who doesn't? But for him is goes a little deeper than most. In his hands I, too, became just a symbol, an icon for that huge, terrifying authority that haunts Kaufman night and day--his Super-ego, his nagging conscience.
-Critial Commentary by Robert McKee
Frailty is a damn good movie I saw recently, highly recommended. Brings back those memories of when you were a kid and your dad comes and tells you that God has appeared to him in a vision and wants you to help him kill the demons who walk around in human form.
Ripley's Game isn't bad either, although it seemed like a Hollywood remake of The American Friend in large parts to me.
re adaptation: the donald kaufman character is from charlie's imagination. his new film with michel gondry, "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind", is really worth seeing, too. is it not in australian theaters yet?