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• (Reminder) Want to help kickstart a new feature-length film by a friend of BCK's?

  Created: Thursday, 21 July 2011

  [Just re-posting this update, as there are a mere 24 hours remaining if you want to help out Chris... so if you've been wondering whether to chip in a dime or two, now's your last chance!] I've mentioned Christopher Good before -- he's a long-time pal of...

• Joaquin and Warner Bros. linked to Charlie's upcoming "world leaders" film

  Created: Friday, 15 July 2011

  New news on one of Charlie's two upcoming films - the one about world leaders who "gather to figure out all the seismic events that will take place in the worlds, from oil prices to wars that will be waged." Via Twitch: Things have been quiet since b...

• (Updated!) Sleeping With Charlie Kaufman

  Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011

  There was a short animated film doing the festival rounds last year, called Sleeping With Charlie Kaufman. Why did I not already know this? I am shirking my responsibilities. Says Wiki: In an interview with Xtranormal, J Roland Kelly describes the film...

• BCK's bills neareth

  Created: Tuesday, 12 July 2011

  BCK's annual fees are around the corner. FUN FUN FUN. They all seem to come together. It's a pain. Like a street gang of virtual debt collectors in a dark electronic alley, in a Silicon Valley of South Central LA where the police are on strike. Or somethi...

• (Video) [the films of] Michel Gondry

  Created: Tuesday, 12 July 2011

  Kees van Dijkhuisen is the creator of a truly nifty series of videos called "[the films of]" -- each clip is a video compilation of highlights from a director's body of work. Kees does a great job putting it all together. The latest director to get this t...

• (Video) Charlie's 2009 Master Class at the VIFF = 76 awesome minutes

  Created: Thursday, 7 July 2011

  Here's a dose of Really Cool: Charlie's "Master Class" at the 2009 Vancouver International Film Fest. The video's an hour and a quarter, and there's some stuff we haven't heard before. (Did you know Charlie tried stand-up during college?) The Master Class...

• Eternal Sunshine double-billing with Fellini @ TIFF Lightbox

  Created: Saturday, 2 July 2011

  It's Canada Day today!* HOORAY CANADA. Which segues nicely into this: if you're in Canada a couple weeks from now, you might want to stop in at TIFF Lightbox and check out Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits and Charlie's Eternal Sunshine. They'll be double-b...

• Put Charlie on your face

  Created: Friday, 1 July 2011

  That sounds wrong. Sorry. Our friend Carl has been spreading the Word of Charlie among the academic masses, walking the Earth much like that guy from Kung Fu, but with less Kung Fu and more lecturing about Charlie Kaufman's work. Carl presented another p...

• Charlie Rose by Samuel Beckett

  Created: Thursday, 30 June 2011

  I came across this and thought I ought to show my BCK homies, because it's strange and hypnotic and kind of annoying. Just like my BCK homies. I don't really mean that. I take most of it back. Since Charlie K has been interviewed on Charlie Rose, and si...

• Everything is a Remix

  Created: Thursday, 30 June 2011

  Kirby Ferguson wants you to know that everything new owes a debt to the things that came before it -- even the stuff that appears super-original has its roots in earlier work. Sometimes a seemingly blow-your-mind original idea can crop up simultaneously i...

• Site maintenance

  Created: Tuesday, 14 June 2011

  Yo folks, just a quick heads-up. I'm upgrading the site this week -- installing the latest versions of a few plugins that we're using, tidying things up here and there, yadda yadda. If you notice strange phenomena on the site, it's cos I'm tweaking things...

• Get Susan Orlean's latest, "Animalish," for two bucks!

  Created: Wednesday, 8 June 2011

  Susan Orlean is the latest writer to dip a toe in the eBook pool -- her new work, "Animalish," is going for $1.99 on Amazon as a Kindle single. It's an essay about "her lifelong obsession with animals." The New York Times have a nice write-up about Orlean...

• If Charlie were a British architect

  Created: Friday, 3 June 2011

  ... he might be this guy, innovative architect Thomas Heatherwick, discussing some of his recent nifty work: What ya think? Camilo pointed it out to me, and I can see what he means. The TED talks are taken from annual TED conferences, and they're ofte...

• Another post about another Eternal Sunshine-like drug

  Created: Friday, 3 June 2011

  A lot of people must have a lot of things they want to forget, cos here's yet another post about yet another attempt to make an Eternal Sunshine-like memory-erasing drug. A new study led by researchers at the Centre for Studies on Human Stress, affili...

• Chicken chicken chicken

  Created: Wednesday, 18 May 2011

  Chicken chicken chicken, chicken. Chicken -- chicken chicken. Malkovich? Malkovich Malkovich. Malkovich. And on not a very related note at all, except that it involves YouTube, here's my absolute favourite thing on the web this month. I don't know why...

• New book: "The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman"

  Created: Monday, 9 May 2011

  There's a new book hot off the press, called The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman. It's a collection of "fourteen bold and engaging original essays on his screenplays and films, written by more than a dozen scholars from diverse fields of enquiry." You can ...

• When your brain has a mind of its own

  Created: Tuesday, 12 April 2011

  The Scientific American website has an article titled "Being John Malkovich: Personal Control of Individual Brain Cells." It begins: In philosophy of mind, a "cerebroscope" is a fictitious device, a brain"“computer interface in today's language, w...

• Going For a Beer

  Created: Sunday, 13 March 2011

  Yo folks! Hope your weekend's been spiffy. Dave points us to a (very) short story in this week's New Yorker, evocative of Synecdoche, New York. It's called "Going For a Beer," it's by Robert Coover, and the opening lines go like so: He finds himself si...

• Two awesome video interviews, in which CK briefly discusses the two new films

  Created: Thursday, 3 March 2011

  I say "awesome" because video interviews with Charlie are relatively rare. Also because they're kind of awesome. Charlie was in attendance for the Goteborg International Film Festival last month, in Sweden, where he was presented with the fest's first-ev...

• Plot details on not one, but possibly TWO upcoming CK films

  Created: Wednesday, 2 March 2011

  It must be Christmas. Or the gift-giving religious hoo-ha of your choice. It's none of my business, really. Deadline New York says: Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures is negotiating to acquire an untitled satire that will re-team screenwriter Charlie...