MUBI podcast: Synecdoche, New York, "Charlie Kaufman’s Movie of a Lifetime"

Synecdoche, New York just featured on the MUBI Podcast, and it's a great look at why the film didn't fare so well when released, despite now being considered by some as one of the "best of the century so far."

When screenwriter Charlie Kaufman started making his epic, heartbreaking directorial debut Synecdoche, New York (2008), he was the toast of Hollywood. Then it flopped, put a pause on his career, and arguably marked the end of the heady “Indiewood” era of the aughts. Host Rico Gagliano talks to one of the film’s stars, Daniel London (Minority Report, 2002), comedian and Synecdoche superfan, Jamie Demetriou (Fleabag, 2016), and LA Times critic Amy Nicholson to learn more about a movie that’s now considered one of the best of the century so far.

The latest season of the MUBI Podcast, Box Office Poison, dives into six visionary films...that were also notorious flops. Inspired by the new book of the same name by Tim Robey, film critic for The Telegraph, each episode takes a wild ride through a great movie’s rise, fall, and rise. (Source)

I don't see any way to embed it here, but you can follow the link and find it on all your regular podcast platforms!

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