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This is one of the many warped ideas flowing through director Michel Gondry’s latest effort, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In the film, a company named Lacuna Incorporated has acquired the technology to erase the foul taste of a past partner. Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) discovers this after tracing a note to ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet), asking mutual friends not to raise his name in conversation with her. Since the ex is not supposed to see these notes, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), the inventor of the treatment and the founder of Lacuna, agrees...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

...more transcendently bizarre moments, the fictional Charlie Kaufman (played by Cage) haunts the edges of the painstakingly-recreated studio set of Malkovich, his first produced film script, awkwardly interacting with that movie’s suddenly irritable cast and crew. Just the same, if Carrey’s Joel Barish is easily distinguishable from Cage’s Kaufman or the writer doodling now as the more talkative Gondry chats on, Sunshine’s author is never far from the new film’s margins...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kaufman, Gondry Give Pieces of ‘Mind’ | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

Wall Street investors too have a craving for concept. Last April Planet Hollywood's creators, Robert Earl and his principal partner, filmmaker Keith Barish, took the company to the markets via an initial public offering of its stock. With its high-dazzle celebrity partners generating headlines, and with a then dazzling IPO market (see story page 60) generating buyers, the price went into another orbit. Some 11 million shares were offered at $18 each, topped $26 (you and Arnold Schwarzenegger--co-owners!), and held firm in a shaky market. That values the company at almost $2.8 billion--91 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGRY FOR THEME DINING | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...Barish suggests no response for liberal politicians. Should they attempt to match such below-the-belt tactics? Or will the electorate just wake up? Barish offers no answer...

Author: By John M. Biers, | Title: "L" Is For Losers | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

...concluding chapter, Barish optimistically cites a recent survey indicating the public's concurrence with traditional liberal programs. Barish offers no technique for turning public opinion into votes during a time of general disaffection with the political process. The L Word's celebration of liberalism remains stuck in the past...

Author: By John M. Biers, | Title: "L" Is For Losers | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

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